Somer and Areeb Bakhsh, who are 15 and 13 years olds, are worried they would be murdered by Islamic State if they were deported to Pakistan, which they left in 2012.

They fled to Glasgow with their parents, Maqsood and Parveen Bakhsh, after the murder of two Christians in Pakistan. Maqsood Bakhsh says the culprits have also targeted him and would kill his family if they had the chance.

Reverend Linda Pollock, the pastor of Possilpark Parish Church in Glasgow, started the campaign on the website 38 degrees because the Home Office rejected the boys’ appeal for asylum despite them having settled in Scottish secondary schools and their fear of going back.

On Possilpark Parish Church’s facebook account, Rev Linda posted on Sunday: “Friends, please add your name to the petition we have created for our boys. Just click on the link below and sign your name… and please pass this on to all your friends and family, we need as many signatures as possible… thanks, Linda”

The petition currently has 1,622 signatories and the MP for Glasgow North East, Paul Sweeney, has also stepped in.

The church posted last month that Mr Sweeney “has written to the Right Honourable Caroline Nokes, Minister of State for Immigration, to urge her to consider Maqsood & Parveen and the boys’ case as a matter of urgency so that the family may be granted…

The X Factor judge said Brits miss out on uplifting sermons like Bishop Michael Curry’s at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding.

Speaking to the Express, Osbourne, 65, said: “The churches are empty because the services are boring.

“They need more of the emotion we saw from the Bishop [Michael], who was animated and fabulous.”

Bishop Michael’s sermon generated widespread media attention with many Christians and non-Christians commending its charismatic tone.

However, a poll by Christian Think Tank Theos found the wedding sermon didn’t leave a lasting impression on Brits, despite the initial praise it received.

*Only 16% of respondents to their survey sid they would be more likely to go to church if the preaching was similar to Bishop Curry’s and only 12% thought the sermon improved their understanding of Christianity.*

But Osbourne, daughter of Jewish music promoter Don Arden, said most churches in the UK are “too straight” and credited her move to the US as allowing her to “sneak through the British way of life and to become so much more emotional”.

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Ealing Council was the first in the country to create a 100-metre protest-free “buffer zone” outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the west London borough following protests.

Christian mother Alina Dulgheriu, of the Be Here For Me campaign argued the ban was an unlawful interference with the protesters’ rights under the European Convention on Human Rights – including the right to freedom of expression.

But the case was dismissed on Monday by Mr Justice Turner, who found the ban does interfere with activists’ rights but said the council was “entitled” to conclude it was a “necessary step in a democratic society”.

The judge added: “There was substantial evidence that a very considerable number of users of the clinic reasonably felt that their privacy was being very seriously invaded at a time and place when they were most vulnerable and sensitive to uninvited attention.

“It also follows that, in this regard, I am also satisfied that the defendant (council) was entitled to conclude that the effect of the activities of the protesters was likely to make such activities unreasonable and justified the restrictions imposed.”

The public spaces protection order (PSPO) came into force in April after reports of “intimidation, harassment and distress” for women using the facility on Mattock Lane.

Clinical operations manager John Hansen-Brevetti said women had been told that the ghost…

Rev Julie Hoplamazian – an Episcopal priest marching in Brooklyn – said: “It’s important for this administration to know that these policies that rip apart families – that treat people as less than human, like they’re vermin – are not the way of God, they are not the law of love.”

It was the latest act of mass resistance against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

There were more than 700 marches, from immigrant-friendly cities like New York and Los Angeles to conservative Appalachia and Wyoming.

They gathered on the front lawn of a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, near a detention centre where migrant children were being held in cages, and on a street corner near Trump’s golf resort at Bedminster, New Jersey, where the president is spending the weekend.

Trump has backed away from family separations amid bipartisan and international uproar.

His “zero tolerance policy” led officials to take more than 2,000 children from their parents as they tried to enter the country illegally, most of them fleeing violence, persecution or economic collapse in their home countries.

Those marching Saturday demanded the government quickly reunite the families that were already divided.

A Brazilian mother separated from her 10-year-old son more than a month ago approached the microphone at the Boston rally.

“We came to…