Dr Paul Rimmer, an expert in prebiotic chemistry, attended an Evensong service at Cambridge’s King’s College Chapel on Father’s Day with his two sons, one of whom, Tristan, is autistic. It is a family tradition to go to the service but was the first time Tristan had attended.

Dr Paul told Premier that his son “waited patiently in line for about 30 minutes before we were able to go in. When we walked in he really loved looking at the ceiling – the top of the church is very, very beautiful and he enjoyed looking at that and when the singing started he really enjoyed the service”.

“Often when he enjoys things he laughs and he calls out and sometimes he does this fairly loudly and we were going through the service and he was doing this and an usher approached us and said he was the disturbing other people at the service and asked us to leave,” he explained.

“I informed the usher that my son is autistic and that this is the way that he is. I was told that this was still too distracting and that we had to go.

“I was not aware that anyone was bothered by what he was doing”.

When asked how he felt at that point, he replied: “I was angry and upset. I was sad.”

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In what he describes a “misunderstanding in the heat of the moment” between him and the usher, he was under the impression that the Dean had instructed the usher to ask them to…

The series of targeted attacks by Islamic extremists killed more than 250 people and left 300 injured in churches and hotels across the country.

Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) have reported that many believers fear further violence despite an increase in security.

ACN spokesperson Citra Abbott told Premier: “The community is definitely scared. And not least because a number of the attackers remain at large and add to that the fact that the government failed to act on intelligence prior to the attacks.”

Concerns of religious persecution continues to grow within the Sri Lankan Christian community, following confirmation from the Supreme Court that the right to share your religion is not protected by the country’s constitution.

Ms Abbott said: “Military presence is actually huge, especially in churches. But people don’t trust the government because violence against Christians by Hindu and Buddhist extremists in any case, is by and large ignored by the government.”

She added: “In spite of the fear, the faith there is strong and many feel that their faith has been strengthened despite being either victims themselves in the attack or losing friends and family.”

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, an outspoken critic of the Sri Lankan government’s apparent failure to act on Indian government intelligence ahead of the Easter attacks, has…

Richard Page lost his role on the bench in 2015 after 15 years of service for stating that a child up for adoption would be better looked after by a man and a woman rather than a same-sex couple.

He was also later stopped from returning to his position as a non-executive director of the Kent and Medway NHS Trust after expressing the same opinion during a BBC interview.

The then Justice Secretary Michael Gove and Lord Thomas said his comments to the media suggested he was “biased and prejudiced against single sex adopters”.

In the second judgement given on Wednesday morning, Mr Justice Choudhury upheld the finding that LGBT people suffer disproportionately from mental health illnesses and might be dissuaded from using the trust’s services because of the high profile coverage of Mr Page’s beliefs.

Andrea Williams, director of the Christian Legal Centre who have been supporting Mr Page explained to Premier why she wasn’t surprised by the judgements “given the current climate in our nation, given the current climate in our culture and certainly in the culture of the courts”.

“There’s a reality that speaking out as a Christian, as Richard Page has done, means increasingly that we are being prohibited from the public space, prohibited from working and taking part in certain professions,” she said.

“And that’s exactly what has happened to Richard Page. He’s been pursuing…