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NORTH WEST IN JERUSALEM
Rapper Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian have had their daughter, North West, baptised in the Cathedral of St James, located in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.

BUY LESS STUFF
Bishop of London Rt Rev Richard Chartres has told Christians to take action against climate change by buying less: ‘There is not much connection between human flourishing and simply having more and more stuff,’ he said.

CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT?
Hillary Clinton has announced she is running for President. Christian speaker and sociologist Tony Campolo, who served as spiritual advisor to Bill Clinton, has endorsed Hillary, saying she is ‘brilliantly qualified for the job’.

THE TITANIC’S SAINT
The Vatican is being urged to make Fr Thomas Byles (1870-1912) a saint. The Catholic priest refused at least two opportunities to escape the Titanic on a lifeboat, saying the spaces were for other people.