CONCERNS about the “huge power” enjoyed by the body set to replace the Archbishops’ Council were voiced in Parliament last week, during a meeting of the Ecclesiastical Committee. Convened to consider ...

TWENTY-THREE years since the closure of St Elisabeth’s, Eastbourne, there are hopes that housing will be built on the site where the church was demolished in 2021. The church, once described in the ...

PROPOSED changes to prison sentences are driven by politics and “pandering to public opinion”, and fail to look at the bigger, longer-term picture, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek ...

FUNERALS come barging into everyday life like some out-of-control juggernaut, ripping apart the structure of our days, making heavy demands on us — some of which are impossible to meet, and adding ...

CONFUSION over a parish questionnaire has resulted in the omission of the annual membership count from the 2024 annual report of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Other data suggest that ...

FOR four-and-a-half centuries, the Hidden Christians in Japan lived in the shadows. To meet them, I had to go there, too: down the archipelago’s back roads, past the neon metropolises, into a ...

OLIVIA BARKER WHITE first visited Uganda in 2007, during a gap year that she and five other young people had embarked on with a Christian charity. When she arrived, she was asked to teach ...

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (RE) should be moved into the national curriculum in England to “improve access to high-quality provision and to prevent further diminishment”, a review commissioned by the ...

THE Church of Ireland has been drawn into the growing global Anglican rift after two diocesan bishops publicly endorsed GAFCON’s rejection of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s authority. The Bishop of ...

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 ...

A FORMER convent in Oxford, home to the All Saints Sisters of the Poor since the 1800s, is being offered for sale by Knight Frank with a market value of £12 million. The Society of All Saints Sisters ...