The vicar of Dame Vera Lynn's local church says she had a Christ-like quality of encouraging people and bringing good news into their lives and throughout her final years. Dame Vera Lynn died o...
Wales will allow private prayer to resume in church buildings from Monday. Scotland are also introducing the measure on Monday, while England introduced it last weekend. Northern Ireland are sligh...
Church services will be allowed to return in Northern Ireland in ten days. First Minister Arlene Foster said on Thursday (video below) that places of worship should plan to be open from the week beg...
The Church of England has apologised for its historical links to the slave trade after a University College London database found that nearly 100 clergymen benefited from the industry and were invol...
A church warden who murdered a university lecturer in order to inherit his house and money has been ordered to pay back almost £150,000. Benjamin Field, 29, embarked on a relationship with dedicated ...
Dave Gilpin, the senior pastor of Sheffield's Hope City Church has resigned just a week after he admitted trying to appeal to white people. Along with his wife Jenny, Gilpin founded the church bac...
A bishop in Somerset will do socially distanced prayer for staff and residents in her local care home on Thursday evening as part of a campaign to draw attention to the commitment and work of care hom...
The former Archbishop of Canterbury has said he is “bewildered and dismayed” to have had his permission to officiate as a priest withdrawn. Lord Carey is no longer authorised to minister within hi...
Christian rapper Lecrae has responded after being part of a discussion in which Atlanta megachurch pastor Louie Giglio seemed to suggest that slavery was somehow a "blessing." The African-American a...
Dedications to slave trader Edward Colston have been removed or covered up from Bristol Cathedral and another prominent church in the city. Work was carried out on Monday to cover up parts of the cath...
A church in North Somerset that didn't usually open their doors for private prayer before the Coronavirus pandemic is now doing so. Clevedon Baptist Church has set up what they call a 'Hop...
The Vatican has released from detention an Italian businessman accused of extortion and fraud in a London property venture that to date has cost the Vatican more than 350 million euros (£314 million)...
Pope Francis is among those taking part in a series of radio programmes on how to "rethink the world" after the pandemic. BBC Radio 4, Radio 5 Live and the World Service will ask how society and lives...
Church buildings have reopened for private individual prayer, but there were strict rules for the worshippers who took part. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Cardinal Vincent Nichols, t...
The Archbishop of Westminster has suggested open-air church services be held throughout the summer months as a next step after churches were allowed to open for private prayer on Saturday. Last week t...
The Bishop of St Asaph, in Wales, has called for statues of explorer Henry Morton Stanley to be taken down. Stanley is known to have a large part in the European colonisation of Africa. He was bor...
The reopening of places of worship for private prayer is a sign that life is returning to “something like normality”, a clergyman has said. Places of worship came under step three of the Governmen...
The Anglican diocese of Salisbury is encouraging schools and individual land-owners to put up signs reminding people they can pray in outside spaces. While churches are opening their doors again for i...
The former chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons has spoken at a Black Lives Matter march, saying: "We are going to be the change" and that if she was a singer she would sing Aretha Franklin...
Singing should be allowed in churches as soon as it is considered safe, the Church of England has said. Current Government guidance says singing and playing instruments – with the exception of the c...
