In Depth:  Daily Telegraph

At the end of January, the only cinema on the Isle of Lewis opened to screen The Last Jedi, despite fans being told they were breaching God’s law by attending the film.

All 183 tickets were sold for the event, which included a workshop that involved building a Death Star model. Two protesters turned out at the cinema with one holding a placard stating ‘Repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out’. The cinema has opened on the last Sunday of each month for a trial period.

George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned from his post in the Church of England as honorary assistant bishop in the diocese of Oxford in late June, over a report that criticised him for failing to take action against a bishop accused of abuse.

This followed an intervention by the current Archbishop, Justin Welby, who asked him to ‘consider his position’.

Religion has become the butt of workplace jokes as sexism has become unacceptable, a survey conducted by ComRes has found.

According to the study, up to 1 million workers may have faced harassment, discrimination or bullying because of their faith.

The schools’ watchdog, Ofsted, was accused in July of ignoring mistreatment of Christian students in its investigation of the ‘Trojan Horse’ schools in Birmingham.

These schools, where hardline Muslim groups had involvement, were suspected of radicalising pupils. Colin Hart, the director of the Christian Institute, said that Ofsted and the Department for Education had given ‘inadequate attention’ to the ‘bullying of Christian pupils’.