Vatican

December 26, 2017

Was BBC News reporting of the Pope’s Christmas address accurate and impartial?

BBC News shoehorned the US president into its coverage of the Pope's Christmas speech....

February 9, 2017

BBC corrects ‘angel of peace’ claim after two complaints

Last month we noted that a BBC News website article promoted inaccurate information which the BBC i...

January 20, 2017

BBC’s Yolande Knell touts the ‘1967 borders’ illusion on Radio 4

The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday‘ claims that it gives listeners “a look at the e...

January 17, 2017

The consequence of BBC failure to make online corrections

On May 16th 2015 the BBC News website ran a story titled “Pope Francis calls Palestinians̵...

June 1, 2015

Still no BBC correction on inaccurate “first new saints” claim

A BBC News website article published on May 13th informed readers that: As was already pointed out h...

May 22, 2015

BBC WS’s ‘Newshour’ exploits Pope’s canonizations for promotion of propaganda

BBC coverage of the Pope’s recent canonization of four nineteenth century nuns has focused exc...

May 21, 2015

BBC News misleads on ‘Arab world’ saints, hides significance of Vatican-PA treaty

On May 13th the BBC News website’s Middle East page published a report titled “Vatican t...

May 19, 2015

Update on the BBC’s ‘angel of peace’ story

As was reported here recently, the BBC News website published an article on May 16th in which it was...

May 17, 2015

BBC lost in news agency translation of Pope’s words to Mahmoud Abbas?

On May 16th the BBC News website’s Middle East page ran an article headlined “Pope Franc...

June 9, 2014

Post Vatican prayer meet missile from Gaza Strip ignored by BBC

The BBC News website’s coverage of the June 8th visit by Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas to the...