Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has called for the decision to ban a cinema advert featuring the Lord’s Prayer to be reversed.

He tweeted that the refusal to show the advert was “an objectionable curtailing of freedom of religious expresson”.

The commercial, to promote a new Church of England website encouraging people to pray, has been banned by the three of the UK’s largest cinema chains, Odeon, Cineworld and Vue.

They say it could offend cinema-goers.