The Diocese of Southwark responded after All Saints Church in Kingston-upon-Thames was accused of “glorifying” the prophet.

An Islamic prayer was recited and a birthday cake was cut during the “Milad, Advent and Christmas Celebration” at the church last Sunday.

Christian blog website, Archbishop Cranmer claimed the church was “rejoicing in both [Jesus and Mohammed], eulogising both, solemnising both, glorifying both, honouring both”.

Lasting for one hour and organised with local interfaith groups, it had been billed as an event “marking the birthday of Prophet Mohammed and looking forward to the birthday of Jesus”.

Archbishop Cranmer said: “Every time a church accords Mohammed the epithet ‘Prophet’, they are rejecting the crucifixion, denying the resurrection of Christ, and refuting that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, for Mohammed denied all of these foundational tenets of the Christian faith.”

A spokesperson for the Diocese of Southwark said the event “enabled Christians, Muslims and others to meet together in order to promote better understanding, conversation, and relationships.

“It was not a service and the event broke no Canon law.”

Observed in the third month of the Islamic calendar, Milad (or Mawlid) is the name of the festival to mark Mohammed’s birthday.

Announcing the development at a briefing in Brussels, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the “breakthrough” had been achieved after months of negotiations.

If EU leaders agree, talks on trade can go ahead.

The deal will see no ‘hard border’ in Ireland while EU citizens in the UK can go on living as before.

Speaking to Premier, Christian Labour MP Stephen Timms, who sits on the Brexit Select Committee welcomed the announcement.

“What’s happened today is that disaster has been averted and that is a good thing because if there had been a failure to agree and if we had to wait several more months to know what was going to happen in the transition period, that would have been genuinely disastrous,” he said. “But there is a lot more work to be done before anyone can say this exercise has proved successful.”

The bill for the UK to leave the EU is expected to be up to £39 billion.

Encouraging Christians to pray over the Brexit process, Timms said a good place to start was with Northern Ireland.

“[Pray] that the communities can come together and avoid the terrible conflicts of the past – that’s the specific thing. For continued peace and improving relations across the communities in Northern Ireland.

“Also for a frictionless trading arrangement for no impediments to prosperity in the UK and in the EU as a result of the longer term trading deal that’s still to be done.”

Theresa May said the process of…