Week commencing 8th May 2023

The Guardian reports that the Archbishop of Canterbury will use his position in the House of Lords to criticise the government’s stance on immigration as the Illegal Migration Bill is debated.

The Religious News Service reports that the Southern Baptist Convention in the US lost nearly half a million members in 2022.

The Guardian runs a story on the execution of two people in Iran accused of blasphemy. A human rights group says it takes the total of executions in Iran this year to 203.