RONY TABASH opened his shop on the corner of Manger Square, in Bethlehem, specially for the Archbishop of York. Pilgrim numbers in the Palestinian city are not what they were before the start of the ...

THE Church of England conducted fewer weddings than ever in 2023, as the number of people in England and Wales getting married in religious ceremonies slumped to a new low. In total, 216,901 weddings ...

Saturday 14 February | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join us for this online retreat in preparation for Lent with Malcolm Guite. Other speakers are David Ford, Carys Walsh, Julia Golding and Simon Horobin The ...

A CAMPAIGN by two parishioners of St Peter’s, Petersfield, to knit enough poppies to decorate the church porch, evolved into a community-wide initiative which produced more than 17,000 poppies. They ...

TO REFLECT on Christ the King, I am taking a single verse from Luke’s Gospel (23.38), together with the other Gospel records of the inscription on the cross. But, first, a fascinating fact that the ...

POPE LEO plans to summon cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church to an extraordinary consistory at the beginning of 2026, according to sources in Rome, in a sign of readiness to involve them more ...

The Church Times14 September to 24 November 2025 St Martin-in-the-Fields Autumn Lecture Series 2025 investigates those things in which we believe deeply – and for which we would be prepared to make a ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOMETIMES, I think that TikTok is best understood as China’s revenge for the Opium Wars. In the 19th century, we forced the Chinese to accept a dangerous and debilitating drug because the sale of it ...