A Christian congregation in Somerset has been left feeling “unsafe” after rocks were thrown through the windows of their church during a Sunday service. Around 120 people from MSBN Bridgwater, a ...
Graham Linehan, co-creator of the sitcom Father Ted, has been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence against transgender people through social media posts. The Irish...
A historic Glasgow church once marred by tragedy is set to close, reflecting a wider trend of church closures across Scotland. St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Anderston gained national attention in ...
A retired Church of England priest from Eastbourne has been jailed for three years after admitting to carrying out an extreme body modification on a man while filming the act. Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, p...
An ex-church warden serving a life sentence for murdering a pensioner could have his conviction reviewed in the Court of Appeal. Benjamin Field, 34, manipulated two pensioners, Peter Farquhar and Ann ...
Environmental campaign group Christian Climate Action (CCA) has issued a new call to the Church of England, asking it to “stop crucifying creation”. A document, sent to CofE members and leaders, u...
Christian Aid has launched an emergency appeal after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing more than 800 people. Thousands more are now in urgent need of shelter, food an...
A Catholic priest in Bedford has described the vandalism of centuries-old graves as “a shocking and deeply distressing act", urging the community to respond with faith and forgiveness. Father Tomas...
Senior Christian leaders are among 38 faith representatives who have written to the Prime Minister urging him to scrap the two-child benefit cap, describing the policy as morally indefensible and a dr...
The director of an evangelical church in Hemel Hempstead has been found guilty of multiple charges of historic sexual abuse, including rape. 61-year-old Michael Toms from Alexandra Road Congregationa...
A church in Yorkshire says it is still feeling the negative impacts of a lead theft which occurred in 2007. St John’s in Penistone says it needs to fund £75,000 worth of repairs to its roof, which ...
Churches in Lancashire are being urged to step up with net-zero efforts, as the season of Creationtide approaches. Creationtide is a period in the Church calendar of prayer and reflection for the envi...
The Archbishop of York has criticised Nigel Farage for having a “knee-jerk” response to small boat migration. Speaking on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, the acting head of the Church of Eng...
A church building which survived an IRA bomb, and now stands as a centre for peace policy, will join some of London’s quirkiest spaces for a citywide architecture festival. St Ethelburga’s, situat...
The Bishop of Bristol has served her final week in the role, after seven years of ministry. Rt Rev Vivienne ‘Viv’ Faull was the first woman elected to the position, when she became Bishop of Brist...
Gena Heraty was abducted by armed gang members from the orphanage where she was working in Saint Helene, near Port-au-Prince, on August 3. She was one of eight people taken, including a three-year-old...
The Diocese of Blackburn is hoping to see thirty new youth leaders placed across its parishes, to expand its reach amongst Gen Z and Alpha. Under the ‘Ignite’ scheme, a panel will select parishes...
A Cardiff vicar has been banned from leading services for two years, after a Church in Wales tribunal found he had claimed payments for planting a new church which never materialised. Ryan Forey, 35, ...
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has declined an invitation to Donald Trump’s state banquet at Buckingham Palace next month, citing his Christian faith. Davey said he felt morally conflicted abo...
A survivor of serial church abuser John Smyth says he felt a “physical reaction” to learning of a data breach, which leaked the details of almost 200 people affected by church abuse. The Church of...
