A Church of Scotland minister has said she is thrilled to have received the Covid-19 vaccine after becoming extremely ill with the virus. Rev Julie Rennick said the injection was painless an...
York Minster's Grand Organ is to be played during worship for the first time in more than two years after a £2 million "once-in-a-century" refurbishment. A prayer will be said for ...
Most Rev Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury has publicly condemned a series of homophobic remarks made by a Nigerian Archbishop. In a 26th February statement, Most Rev Henry C ...
The global leader of Hillsong Church has announced a series of sweeping changes to staff and HR policies following a scandal involving one of its most high-profile pastors. New York pastor Carl Lentz ...
Ministers have been urged to appoint a fish and chips tsar to promote domestic consumption of fish. Rt Rev Alan Smith, Bishop of St Albans, theraised the suggestion at question time in the Lords. UK f...
A coalition of LGBT, mental health and faith organisations have renewed their calls for a ban of conversion therapy. They say the end of March it will have been 1,000 days since the UK Governmen...
Recommendations to broaden the locations in which church-sanctioned weddings can take place have been criticised by the Church of England. In its 500-page November report, the Law...
The Duchess of Cornwall has visted a United Reformed Church in Croydon, which is being used as a centre for administering the injections. Whilst on the official visit, she said she suffered no si...
The Orthodox Church of Cyprus has called for the country's Eurovision entry to be withdrawn, citing concern over its content. The church said that the song, “El Diablo,” which translat...
When a cheeky cat first jumped on the table during online prayers at Canterbury Cathedral, staff almost hit paws on the recording. But a year later and the three mischievous felines who live at the 1,...
The Roman Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is demanding justice for the lives lost in the 2019 Easter bombing after receiving part of the presidential commission's report into the attack which th...
Christians Against Poverty, church-based charities and Christian MPs have been sharing what they make of the Chancellor's economic plan. In Wednesday's budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced...
Intense preparations are being carried out as the Pope prepares to meet a revered Shia cleric in Iraq's holiest city. Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani will seek to make history in Najaf ...
A retired vicar has said that the Church of England's decision to sell off a number of its redundant church buildings is absolutely essential as a means to provide for those wh...
171 Christians have now been released from prison in Eritrea since last August, but hundreds are reported to have been killed in the Tigray region. Tigray is a northern region of Ethiopia, borde...
A popular pastor from the US state of Georgia has died from Covid-19 at the age of 44. Rev Bryant Wardell Raines was a highly respected local activist and leader of the New Pilgrim Missionar...
A Northern Ireland pastor - who has opted to keep his church open during lockdown - has told Premier the church should never accept a Covid vaccine passport if one was introduced, Almost 240,000 peopl...
The Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Methodist churches across Northern Ireland have said they hope to be back in their buildings by Good Friday. In a statement, the Church of ...
The Church of England should have a louder political voice, the Archbishop of York has said. In an interview with The Observer, Stephen Cottrell, who became the Church of England's second most sen...
A youth leader has found a creative way to get youngsters reading the Bible every day. Paul Lee from a church in St Albans has created a free online Bible reading challenge called Bible Quest. The cha...
