7 h. ago Taliban will release British teacher, 79, and his wife in Afghanistan 'as soon as possible' after couple were arrested for 'engaging in religious proselytising'

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were both arrested on February 1 upon returning to their home in Afghanistan 's Bamiyan province.

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10 h. ago Taliban to 'release arrested British couple as soon as possible’

Mr and Mrs Reynolds have run school training programmes for 18 years and remained in the country after the Taliban takeover in 2021.

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12 h. ago Taliban ‘will try to release arrested British couple as soon as possible’

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, have run school training programmes in Afghanistan for 18 years.

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20 h. ago Fears British teacher, 79, arrested with wife in Afghanistan for 'engaging in religious proselytising' could die as Taliban withhold vital heart medication

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained as they travelled to their home in the country's Bamyan province on February 1.

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21 h. ago Fears British teacher, 79, arrested with wife in Afghanistan could die as Taliban 'withhold vital heart medication'

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained as they travelled to their home in the country's Bamyan province on February 1.

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3 d. ago This is the year the Oscars found God – but can they keep the faith?

From Conclave to The Brutalist to A Real Pain, films about religion are unusually well represented at the Academy Awards – some with decidedly unorthodox themes• Warning: contains spoilersWhat Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell said of New Labour – “We don’t do God” – applies also to the Academy Awards. The secular gong-dispensing rite annually sweeps religion off its proverbial red carpet. The last best picture winner to deal with the subject was 2015’s Spotlight, which hardly proselytised for organised religion – it dramatised the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic church. You have to go back to 1973 to find a movie with a priestly protagonist that really beguiled the Academy: William Friedkin’s horror movie The Exorcist received 10 Oscar nominations, winning awards for screenplay and sound.This year, though, may be different. Two leading contenders, The Brutalist (10 nominations) and Conclave (eight), put faith front and centre. And let’...

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