AN ONLINE Christmas service designed for people working shifts will be released on the Church of England website at 6 a.m. on Christmas Day. Lasting 15 minutes, so that it can be watched in the course ...

THE House of Bishops is to take more time finalising proposals on the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process, instead of formalising decisions that had been announced in October, it was decided on ...

THE Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Revd Kanishka Raffel, has issued a statement embracing “Jewish neighbours and fellow citizens in love, friendship, and support” in the aftermath of what he described ...

THE Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, was “clearly correct” in taking no further action against the Revd Tim Hastie-Smith concerning the handling of reports about John Smyth’s abusive behaviour ...

A COMPLAINT against the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, was “not taken forward or appropriately followed up”, Lambeth Palace said in a statement on Thursday. “While his abuse allegations ...

BETWEEN 1992 and 2024, former Anglican clergy made up more than one third of those beginning priestly ministry in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, a new report reveals. The report, ...

THE popularity of Christmas jumpers was illustrated last year in reports from the Lidl supermarket chain that it had sold one every two seconds. Its designs included Christmas trees, snowflakes, candy ...

ONE in ten young people are unhappy with their lives, the Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Report 2025 has concluded. This year, the research for the report, released on Thursday, included ...

FIVE per cent of the respondents to the latest National Churches Trust (NCT) survey say that their church will either “definitely” or “probably” be closed as a place of worship by 2030. The findings ...

ADVOCATES of “full inclusion” of LGBTQ+ people in the Church have reacted with dismay to the House of Bishops’ decision that stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples and the ...

THE Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew of Constantinople, has reasserted his primacy after 34 years in office over the world’s divided Orthodox Churches, insisting that he should be viewed as “first ...