Sunday, 30 April 2017 marks the 18th anniversary of the London nail bomb attack on the Admiral Duncan public house in Old Compton Street, Soho. Three people and an unborn baby lost their lives and around one hundred other people were injured.
The armed forces have been accused of whitewashing their image with “family fun” events around the UK this Saturday. The Peace Pledge Union warned that Armed Forces Day events routinely present war and weapons as clean and exciting.
The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has expressed “shock, outrage and sadness” over the tragic events in Orlando, Florida and called for control of automatic weapons.
A split in the Anglican Communion would be a failure though not a disaster, said the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on BBC Radio 4's Today progr