The Hillsborough disaster of 1989, which killed 96 people, left families without answers for years. However, Bishop James Jones was asked in 2010 to write a review of the experience of these families and how they were treated by the media, police and other authorities.

After a year and a half the Bishop has compiled their words into a report running to 120 pages. He concludes that families felt “patronised” and “dehumanised”.

He explained: “What happens very often when there’s a disaster is that the public inst involved official closes ranks, puts their own reputation over and  above the needs of the individuals, the aggrieved and the bereaved.”

It also features 25 points to ensure that no families should ever experiences the same things again.
He calls for proper participation of families at inquests and a ‘duty of candour’ by police officers who fail to co-operate into alleged offences or misconduct.

He recommends that parliament should consider a Hillsborough-law, which would create new criminal offences for people who cover-up failures.

This law has also been supported by the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham and several Labour MPs who say it will also help those who were affected by the Grenfell fire. 

As the national marriage equality postal survey entered its final week, the leading organisation behind the “no” campaign, the Australian Christian Lobby’s NSW director wrote to councillors asking them to re-evaluate the use of public money for LGBTI groups.

Kieren Jackson asked them to instead prioritise “the most vulnerable in society, the sick and those with disabilities”, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

He went on to say: “The question that needs to be asked is whether the Inner West Council’s energetic support of the ‘Yes’ campaign in the current postal survey is colouring the council’s judgment when it comes to being responsible with ratepayers’ money.”

However, his bid was unsuccessful as councillors voted overwhelmingly to approve more than $67,000 in funding for 13 LGBTI programs for the upcoming year.

Mayor Darcy Byrne told a council meeting on Tuesday: “We are giving out several hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to a wide range of organisations, some of which are LGBT organisations. So what?

“Anyone who is arguing against [support] for a particular group or subset because it’s exclusive is also arguing for an end for any support from this council to any ethnic groups.”

Councillors also backed an amendment for a report outlining the “criteria and processes” involved in the approval of projects in the annual grant program.

The LGBTI projects accounted for 10 per cent of the grant program’s total amount…

The instruction follows US President Donald Trump calling for a merit based US immigration system in response to a truck driven by a 29-year-old Uzbekistan immigrant ploughing to death eight people.

The suspect, who was shot and is in hospital, has been living in America since 2010 and arrived legally.

Jennifer Mills-Knutsen, senior minister at the American International Church in London, told Premier how people in New York are feeling.

She told Premier’s News Hour: “It is always a shock because these terror attacks are designed to be exactly that. They’re designed to catch people off guard, and to make people feel unsafe in places where they ought to feel safe.

“I think New Yorkers – like Londoners – tend to recognise that the best response is to continue to go about their daily lives as best they are able and to do that by continuing to be brave and refusing to cower and to live in fear.”

It’s reported a note pledging allegiance to Islamic State has been found in the truck which crashed into people in New York, which also left more than a dozen others injured.

It happened close to the World Trade Center in Manhattan and is New York’s first fatal terror attack since 9-11.

Mills-Knutsen told Premier that it’s important for Christians to be “prepared” for bad things to happen.

She explained: “”We can look over our understanding of God and of the world and recognise that it’s not a perfect place. That the world…

According to the diocese, it’s part of a new initiative that “asserts the central role of music in the life of London’s churches”.

www.musicianschurch.org launches has details of seven churches in the City of London that have facilities available for hire. It includes details of church spaces available to hire, with details of their capacity, facilities, and practical specifications for concerts.

In tandem, a series of concerts, events and spiritual support programmes will also be organised .

The Rt Rev Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden and Acting Bishop of London, said the diocese treasures its relationships with musicians.

He said in a statement: “This Musicians Church Website will celebrate this partnership, through our service to musicians, through our church buildings resounding with the glory and mystery of music, and through our service to all as we live out our love of God and neighbour.”

Bishop Pete will act as Patron, alongside John Rutter CBE and Julian Lloyd Webber.

These new efforts come after a London church known as the National Musicians’ Church was criticised by Rutter, who’s one of the UK’s best-known composers, after it said it wouldn’t allow choirs and orchestras to play non-Christian music.

In August, St. Sepulchre’s Without Newgate Church in Holborn said an increasingly busy programme of worship and church activities led to ever higher demands on the church space.

Back then Rutter said the decision meant the church had “betrayed”…