Four Primary schools in Brighton have issued new guidance for children to call their parents 'grown ups' instead of 'mum and dad.' The move is a bid to avoid discriminating against ...
A 20-foot Jesus statue has been destroyed by authorities in India's southern state of Karnataka which had been standing in the village for 18 years. It is claimed that the statue was built on land...
A church elder from China has been charged with 'inciting subversion of state power' following a charge of fraud. Zhang Chunlei was the leader of Love Reformed Church in Guiyang, a church th...
The National Churches Trust has been awarded a grant of £1.5 million by Historic England to fund urgent repairs to 31 historic local churches. The funding comes from the Heritage Stimulus Fund, part ...
Two towns in Wales are to get a £1 million investment to help protect young people and children from violence. The project in Grangetown and Butetown will be working with local places of worship, sch...
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with a blaze at a church in Aidrie, Lanarkshire. Jackson Parish Church - part of the Church of Scotland - was forced to close their weekly services...
Schools in England are going to be given new "impartiality guidance" to help them teach sensitive political issues. The rules say schools should be free to teach students about controversial events - ...
A Christian doctor is appealing to reverse a ban preventing him from providing the abortion pill reversal treatment. Former president of the Catholic Medical Association, Dr Dermot Kearney, was barred...
Bishop of Kensington, Rt Rev Dr Graham Tomlin is to become the new lead as Centre for Cultural Witness. Rt Rev Dr Tomlin will lead work on exploring how the Church can explain and share with other...
Churches in and around Lancashire have been plagued by a spate of thefts, as the third church in three weeks sees their flag stones stolen. The latest victim is Ormskirk Parish Church; clergy arrived ...
The Church of England has apologised after an independent lessons learned review found it had missed opportunities to protect child victims from abuse by a vicar. The late Rev Graham Gregory was se...
The Dean of Canterbury - who shot to fame after his cats continued to interrupt his livestreamed sermons - has announced he will soon retire. Very Rev Dr Robert Willis was filming a morning prayer o...
A Christian charity is ramping up its efforts to combat fast fashion in a bid to slow down climate change. The textile industry is at the forefront of the environmental emergency, with the overconsu...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he "isn't sure" that closing churches during the pandemic was the right decision. However, he's defended his actions by saying it wasn't just him at...
TV vicar Rev Kate Bottley has said she could leave the Church of England over its inclusion policies, but chooses to stay and “keep having the conversation”. Speaking to Kate Thornton on the White...
A couple who have battled for more than four years over a transgender row in their children’s school, have won their right to a judicial review. Nigel and Sally Rowe first hit the headlines in 2017 ...
The Church of England has called for the "pills by post" law, which temporarily allowed women to take their abortion pills at home, to be scrapped. As part of the Covid measures, abortion pills were s...
A Christian disability assessor who was sacked by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) for refusing to call transgender woman ‘she’ is taking his case to the High Court. Dr David Mackereth wa...
Eight Iranian Christian converts have been ordered to attend ‘re-education classes’ following their acquittal by the country’s courts. The Iranian men were arrested in Iran’s western city of D...
The Church of England Children and Youth Advisor, Rev’d Mary Hawes wants to encourage baptised children to take communion. In 1996 the Church of England’s General Synod agreed that churches could ...
