Major Mark Sawyer, the leader of Norwich Citadel church, said more than 2,000 people have been tuning in to his online Sunday services, compared with around 300 who would attend pre-lockdown. Mr Sawy...
The Evangelical Alliance, which represents two million evangelical Christians in the UK, has said the tragedy felt by some churches from Covid-19 needs to be acknowledged by the whole church. Figur...
Faith groups should be made to register with the authorities if they want to provide education and youth provision, safeguarding leaders have told an inquiry. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual...
The president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, Michael Ramsden, has shared an update on health of its founder, Ravi Zacharias, after it was announced that he has terminal cancer. Tributes a...
A Christian MP has asked the Government what financial help it is providing for faith groups and organisations in the UK Ruth Jones, the Labour representative for Newport West, asked how they are s...
Megachurch Hillsong is reassessing what its UK congregations will look like after the coronavirus pandemic and says it doesn't expect to reopen its biggest sites until at least 2021. Prior to the ...
A Christian couple have shared how the coronavirus pandemic has not deterred them from their plans to plant a church in the city of Belfast. Northern Ireland born Kenny and Nicola McCoosh have spent t...
Popular American pastor and author John Piper has explained some of the controversial claims made in his new book Coronavirus and Christ after an atheist lobby group requested that a US army chaplai...
A police officer has found faith after turning to virtual assistant Siri in his time of need. David*, a 20-year law enforcement veteran whose name has been changed to protect his identity, was at home...
Faith leaders will be liaising with the UK government to come up with a game plan on how and when to re-open churches. In a tweet on Wednesday, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local ...
Serbia has protested over the detention of eight Serbian Orthodox Church priests in neighbouring Montenegro after thousands of people attended a religious procession despite a ban on gatherings becaus...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged religious leaders to challenge “inaccurate and harmful messages” fuelling ethno-nationalism, stigma, hate speech and conflict amid the c...
A prayer movement which usually centres around mass gatherings has adapted its plans to have a virtual ‘upper room’ for 24/7 prayer and activities to do at home. The Thy Kingdom Come prayer moveme...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has announced that it has become the UK’s first public inquiry to hear evidence in a virtual public hearing. The hearing, which seeks to add...
A poster of the praying hands emoji has popped up in many home windows in Devon. Rediscover Church in Exeter encouraged their members to do it to let people know they are praying for the coronavirus...
Anglican churches will begin streaming their services online from this week, the Bishop of Chelmsford has said. Religious buildings in the UK have been shut for nearly two months to halt the spread of...
The Church of England has responded to the government's phased plan to reopen society and the official guidance which notes that churches could reopen across the board from July. Though there was ...
A Christian politician has said he finds the Government's failure to include places of worship in its first phase of plans to ease lockdown measures "regrettable". On Sunday, the Prime Minister an...
The bishop in charge of planning how the Church of England will re-open its buildings has said worshippers will have to get used to a new normal for "some time to come." Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, the Bis...
The Catholic Church in England and Wales has said the UK Government should treat the effects coronavirus has on ethnic groups as matter of urgency. New analysis by the Office for National Statistic...
