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Worship is a huge part of the faith experience for believers, and having to abstain from corporate worship and fellowship has been a challenge that has proved hard to navigate over the last year. Virtual experiences have tried to fill the gap but so...

A pastor, women’s advocate and former United Bermuda Party Cabinet minister and senator has died at 75. Yvette Swan, who worked as an optometrist at the Bermuda Optical Company, was a champion for the disadvantaged, according to Cole Simons, the Lead...

A former senior Anglican priest who was paralysed as a result of a fall last summer has died. Norman Lynas, the former Canon Residentiary at the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton, fell down a set of steps in Bermuda last July. He was later airlifted to ...

This week marks one year since the first two cases of Covid-19 were reported in Bermuda. The announcement on March 18 was followed by a whirlwind of changes in the community; for religious organisations it forced a remodelling of the way congregation...

Sunday will mark the 42nd anniversary of the United Nations’ observance of “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”. Since 1979, the United Nations General Assembly has promoted global activities and awareness on this day, whi...

Bahá'ís in Bermuda and around the world will next Saturday celebrate Naw-Ruz, the Bahá'í New Year. Naw-Ruz aligns with the spring equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator line in a northerly direction; it signals the first day of spring in ...

An exhibition designed to highlight the horrors of the Holocaust is to open tomorrow. The event was timed for the run-up to Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shoah: Understanding the Holocaust Through Art & Artifacts, organised by the Jewish Community o...

Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, has rejected calls to abolish “coerced” collective worship in schools. Mr Rabain said he supported legislation which dictates that schools “shall begin with collective worship on the part of all pupils in at...

Bullying will not be “allowed or tolerated” in Bermuda public education, Diallo Rabain has said. The education minister highlighted alleged harassment of students on the basis of religion. Mr Rabain was responding to a February 1 statement by the act...

On February 1, Social Justice Bermuda released a statement lobbying the Government to end compulsory worship in public schools, as it is a discriminatory practice and infringes on students’ freedom of religion. This statement was met with much resist...

Dear Sir, This is in reference to prayers in public schools. Bermuda, we have to decide are we a Christian society or not. I would never dream of going to a Muslim country and dictate what they can and cannot do because I don’t believe as they do. I...

A pressure group is calling for religion to be banned from public school assemblies, claiming it is a coercive form of oppression that breaches the rights of children. Social Justice Bermuda also argued that students who exercise their right to opt o...