In a letter published on Friday, Mr Holdsworth wrote to members of the General Synod who are also trustees of Church of ...

THE “reset” of safeguarding in the Church of England must have mandatory reporting at its heart, the Bishop of London told ...

Two models are being put forward for consideration. In the first, the National Safeguarding Team (NST) would be transferred ...

A YOUNG mum came to see me last week to enquire about the church, and ask about what we believed and what we expected of her.

The art of Cristofano Allori, who should have died thereafter ...

SOLAR panels — 184 of them — have been installed and blessed on the roof of York Minster. The Dean, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, prayed: “Bless these solar panels that they may help us in our ...

MORE than one third of adults in the UK are anxious about their everyday finances, new polling from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. Through its latest campaign, “Budget not Blues”, the ...

26 January, Nehemiah 8.1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19 (19.1-6); 1 Corinthians 12.12-31a; Luke 4.14-21 WHEN I ask people to read in worship, I advise them to prepare by reading the passage beforehand, ...

NEWS of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday evening has been welcomed with caution, after overnight Israeli missile strikes were reported to have killed more than 80 people. On ...

CHURCH buildings and places of worship have been burned to the ground in the fast-moving wildfires sweeping across parts of California. Among them is St Mark’s Episcopal Church, in Altadena, which was ...

TENSIONS were high as Mozambique prepared for the swearing-in of President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday, amid continued street protests over the disputed parliamentary election result. Thousands of ...

THE first new parish in the diocese of Guildford for 25 years has been established at the site of the former Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. The former garrison church, St Barbara’s, built as a tin ...