The case of a Christian actress removed from a lead role in a play over a bible-citing Facebook post has gone to an employment tribunal in London.

The Letters of Cole Porter Edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh Yale, 672pp, £25/$35 Cole Porter, who was born in 1891 and died in 1964, was the grandson of the richest man in Indiana. He was busy writing songs while still a schoolboy, and never stopped until 1958, when he had to have one

“Coming out” used to mean attending a debutante’s ball. Nowadays, as we know, it means a person announcing that their sexual orientation is gay or “non binary”. The television presenter Phillip Schofield has taken the ceremony of “coming out” one step further – by making the announcement on live television. He has been hailed as

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German bishops’ conference president says blessing should be offered on case-by-case basis

Felix Ngole was thrown off his social work course because of his beliefs on marriage. The message for Christians is stark

The Church cannot back down on its call to chastity, the cardinal said

The cardinal said that omitting Jesus's 'hard sayings' is not charitable