There are cases of seafarers and fishermen being effectively imprisoned on their ships, not paid wages and held in a modern-day form of press-ganging and slavery, says Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.

Deacon Roger Stone receives British Empire Medal for services to seafarers.

Grant of £2.3 million for a three-year project on the theme ‘Understanding Unbelief’ which will be funded by the John Templeton Foundation (JTF).

Comic Jimmy Cricket announced by tweet that the Pope had made him a papal knight for services to charity.