THE Listed Places of Worship Grant (LPWG) Scheme has been extended for one year only and capped at £23 million. Individual ...

A PLEA for the new United States administration to be merciful to undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ people has been rejected ...

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 ...

A CEASEFIRE was agreed between Hamas and Israel on Wednesday evening, according to media reports. Exact details of the deal remain unconfirmed, but media reports suggest that the agreement is ...

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 ...

In 2023, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York asked Professor Alexis Jay to develop proposals for a fully independent structure to provide scrutiny of safeguarding in the Church of England. Her ...

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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 ...

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 ...

THIS week’s column is about the online media that have largely replaced the press, and even TV, as the means through which people understand their societies. It is largely inspired by Henry Farrell, a ...

Karl Barth on Religion: A critique by Keith Ward (Cambridge University Press, £23.99 (£21.59); 978-1-009-55541-8). “In this study, Keith Ward offers a detailed critique of Barth's views on religion ...

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, ...