Amnesty International has reposnded to Donald Trump's comment that he would consider sending the man accused of the truck attack in New York City to the US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay.
Within hours over 550 people have signed a petition to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, calling for reinstatement of eight sacked seminary professors.
The future of a flagship Episcopal seminary in the US is in doubt after its board ignored pleas from across the world to reinstate sacked faculty members.
The crisis at General Theological Seminary in New York has not only produced important acts of solidarity towards eight fine professors unjustly sacked for their protests about what they have experienced as bullying within the GTS administrative system, it has also begun to spark some wider questions about the future of seminary-style education and mainstream US Protestantism.
The tragic and deplorable situation at General Theological Seminary in New York, USA, where eight loyal faculty members at present stand dismissed for their action in seeking to address "a workplace with a retaliatory and hostile environment", is one which has regrettably sad echoes in other situations in religious bodies I have known over the years.
Despite a court ruling that the violent eviction of Occupy Wall Street was not unlawful, New York activists say they will regroup and refuse to give up.
A decade on from the 9/11 attacks, senior British Free Church leaders are calling on the Government to re-examine its use of responsive military force.