RADICAL reform of the National Church Institutions (NCIs), including the abolition of the Archbishops’ Council, has been halted after the parliamentary Ecclesiastical Committee deemed the legislation ...

BISHOPS in the House of Lords “have consistently opposed the two-child limit right from its introduction”, the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, said last week. His remarks came during the ...

AS THE assisted-dying Bill runs out of debating time in the House of Lords, the Christian Labour peer Lord Rook on Friday tabled three amendments on protecting vulnerable people from coercion and ...

THE US-Israeli strikes on Iran constitute “an operation aimed at the liberation of the Iranian people”, a group of Iranian Christians has told the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani. In a ...

THIRTY years after the Dunblane tragedy, when 16 children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, were killed in a school shooting, the Minister of Dunblane Cathedral, the Revd Colin Renwick, said that people ...

A TELEVISED Easter-morning sung eucharist from Ripon Cathedral, with Widor’s Mass for Two Choirs, is among the BBC’s programming for Holy Week and Easter, announced on Tuesday, as is the Pope’s annual ...

“IT’S a gorgeous place,” Brother Felix tells me enthusiastically on Zoom from his monastery between two Worcestershire villages, where the patchy WiFi is compensated for by the views over the rolling ...

THE cuts to university theology and religion departments should be of greater concern to the Church, the F. D. Maurice Professor at King’s College, London (KCL), has said. Speaking after the launch of ...

A NEW, non-statutory, government definition of hostility to Muslims has been welcomed by the Bishop of Bradford, Dr Toby Howarth, who said that it would help people to love their neighbours. The new ...