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”…

Mark Chapman was convicted of assassinating Lennon outside his New York home in 1980. Known as an obsessed fan, Chapman shot the rock star in the back four times.

According to the Daily Mirror, the 62-year-old wrote a letter to a US pen pal named Michael about his regrets.

In the letter, Chapman said that he had committed a “heinous crime” and that he’s “never forgotten” the “horrible occurrence”.

But he added: “Jesus is a real, living person I have come to know.

“Jesus is everything. I have found this through the many long years here at Attica [the New York State jail where he was previously held].

“Through it all I have come to know he cares very deeply for me – and for you.

“He chose to die so that our sins – even mine – could be forgiven.”

Chapman also said that Michael can also “know” and “feel” this saviour.

Further along in the letter, Chapman claimed to have written a book called The Prisoner’s Letter.

According to the newspaper, a man who runs a website dedicated to selling personal property of high-profile criminals sold the letter to an anonymous bidder in the US for £265.

However, Eric Holler, who created Serial Killer Ink said he got the letter from someone who was Chapman’s pen pal.

He added that the letter was sold within an hour of it being listed on his website.

Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life in jail in 1981 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.  He has been denied parole…