Religion Media Festival: Reporting Religion

There aren’t that many reporters who specialise in reporting religion in the UK, but their diary has been overflowing in the past year. There are religious angles to all the main stories of today – the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the riots in the summer of 2024, and the needs of people in poverty helped by people of faith. The religious organisations themselves have been making headlines with the first resignation of an Archbishop of Canterbury, the death of one Pope and the election of another, and multiple sex abuse stories and cover-ups.

Many of the journalists, whose work is to reflect this world to people of all faiths and none, took part in a panel discussion on how they do their jobs. Rosie Dawson chaired, with guests:

• Christopher Lamb, CCN Vatican Correspondent
• Catherine Pepinster, author and journalist
• Francis Martin, Church Times
• Kaya Burgess, Religious Affairs Correspondent and Science Reporter at The Times
• Maira Butt, RMC specialist reporter on Islam

The Religion Media Festival, held at Methodist Central Hall, London, on Monday 9 June 2025, was organised by the Religion Media Centre. We are a charity which aims to help journalists report religion by providing daily news bulletins, background briefings, factsheets and opportunities to network.

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