SILVER worth more than £500,000 was stolen from churches across the country in 2024, as thieves moved away from stripping off ...

THE new Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) received final approval from the General Synod on Wednesday afternoon to replace the ...

The immediate response from survivors on social media was negative. “Survivors are devastated,” the founder of Survivors ...

THE six Central Members of the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) — those elected by General Synod — are “unanimous in their ...

The Church Times Cricket Cup began in 1951 and has been fiercely contested by dioceses ever since. The idea for an inter-diocesan cricket competition was first suggested by the Revd Greader Bussell, ...

THE Archbishop of York is preparing for the first meeting of the General Synod since the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Church of England is currently navigating decidedly choppy ...

THE effects of President Donald Trump’s orders halting the United States’ refugee-assistance and overseas-aid programmes are already being felt, as charities lay off staff and slash support services.

CONSULTATION on the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury begins today. Members of the public are invited to propose candidates and comment on what the Church needs from the next Primate of ...

A FORMER Bishop of Swansea & Brecon has appeared at Swansea Crown Court, charged with sexual offences, the Church in Wales reports. The Rt Revd Anthony Pierce, 84, pleaded guilty to five counts of ...

ALLEGATIONS of sexual abuse and coercive behaviour were made against the Revd David Fletcher, a former Rector of St Ebbe’s, Oxford, after the publication of the Makin report, it was revealed on ...

16 February, Proper 2: Jeremiah 17.5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15.12-20; Luke 6.17-26 LUKE’s version of Jesus’s Beatitudes (or “blessings”) challenges the more famous version recorded in Matthew (5.1 ...

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