For the first time, services will take place at Westminster Abbey and the Methodist Central Hall (opposite the Houses of Parliament) at the same time, celebrating the place of migrants in modern British society.

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has reminded Christians that belief in God is about living in the reality of faith and developing an unselfish life, not about arguments and rationalisations.

In a message that may surprise his successor, the outgoing Catholic Archbishop of Westminster says in an Easter Sunday homily that Christians should commend the Gospel by example not dominance.

Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the 63-year-old Archbishop of Birmingham, has been named as the new incumbent at Westminster, the most senior Catholic in England and Wales.

In a London lecture, Catholic Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has claimed that UK anti-discrimination legislation is being used to limit freedom of religion “in unacceptable ways”.

The current financial crisis could signal the end of over-dependence on a selfish kind of capitalism, the spiritual head of the Catholic church in England and Wales has said in a newspaper interview.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, has called for an improved dialogue between believers and non-believers to establish the shared values of British society.