Religion on the frontline
Riazat Butt spends two weeks travelling through Afghanistan with army chaplains
Iran fears Isis militants are part of wider Sunni backlash
With Islamic State militants just kilometres from the country’s western border, and increasingly radical anti-Shia militants to the east in Pakistan, Gareth Smyth examines Iran’s Sunni problem
Liverpool's church for all seasons draws the crowds
Guest blogger Declan McSweeney visits St Bride's in Toxteth, the scene of serious street violence in 1981 and again in August. He finds a church with plenty to do.
York embarks on its novel 'fairness strategy'
Archbishop Sentamu launches first public meeting of a project squarely in the great tradition of Seebohm Rowntree
Campaigners plead with Whittam Smith to save Cumbrian castle
Protests and petitions head for the former Indie editor, now First Church Estates Commissioner, about the Bishop of Carlisle's delectable former home
Leeds gets first church minister to its night-time clubs and bars
Beth Tash used to club in the city as a student. Now she's back as a pastor with a 'message of life and a mission of love'
At shura, elders of Chah-e-Mirza deal with concrete and divine
The prospect of a new road appears to weigh more heavily on the waqils' minds than that of bombs, although these are never far from their thoughts, reports Riazat Butt
Khan's kitchen: the difficult life of an Afghan interpreter for the British military
Afghan interpreters pay a heavy price for working with the UK armed forces. Riazat Butt meets one of them as he cooks a Ramadan meal
Gurkhas' Hindu temple in Lashkar Gah is only one of its kind
Riazat Butt visits the Hindu temple at the British army base at Lashkar Gah
Life as a humanist with the armed forces in Afghanistan
'I don't believe in the concept of an afterlife and it frightens me that people do believe in it,' Petty Officer Christopher Holden tells Riazat Butt
Baptism at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan
Riazat Butt visits the US camp in Afghanistan's Helmand Province – and notes the differences between the American and British military's approach to religion
Religion in Camp Bastion: 'What people are asked to do here can lead to big questions'
Religious affairs correspondent Riazat Butt is travelling through Afghanistan with army chaplains. She starts her blog looking at vigils for dead soldiers, and will send shorter posts throughout the next two weeks
