Bangor Cathedral has announced its next Dean, following calls for urgent leadership to tackle recent governance and safeguarding concerns. Rev Dr Manon Ceridwen James, who grew up in Nefyn on the Llyn...
Constance Marten, the aristocratic heiress found guilty of causing her baby’s death, previously attended churches including Holy Trinity Brompton, and the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in ...
A Church of England parish has made a five-figure pay-out to a man who said he had been subjected to an exorcism to rid him of his homosexuality. Matthew Drapper, 37, was a volunteer at St Thomas Phil...
The Church of England’s General Synod has voted to scrap a document which said clergy could not engage in sexually active same-sex relationships. Issues in Human Sexuality was written in 1991 and ha...
The Bishop of Kingston and his dog Jem will undertake a ten-marathon challenge by running the Pennine Way, to fund new schools in Zimbabwe. The famous route spans 267 miles, from Edale in the Peak Dis...
A joint service between five Bournemouth churches has seen 92 people publicly give their lives to Christ. Taking place on Boscombe Beach during last weekend’s heatwave, the service invited the publi...
The Church of England has earmarked £150m to compensate survivors of church-related abuse. Members of the General Synod in York have given final approval to a redress scheme after four years of negot...
A senior church leader in Jerusalem has compared the situation in Gaza with the dystopian series The Hunger Games. In a strongly worded address to the Church of England's General Synod in York, ...
A decision by members of the Church of England’s General Synod to vote against committing one per cent of Church Commissioners’ funds to parish funding, has caused outrage among some clergy. The p...
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is being accused of undermining biblical ethics over sexuality. Last month, Bishop Welby said in an interview with the Cambridge Union that he had be...
Plans are underway to exhume and enshrine the head of Sir Thomas More ahead of the 500th anniversary of his death. More is the Catholic martyr who was beheaded in 1535 for opposing Henry VIII’s brea...
A faith-based network has called on the government to move beyond “tokenistic” gestures and develop genuine partnerships with faith and community groups if NHS reforms are to succeed. Responding t...
The internet appears torn over claims that the large language model (LLM) ChatGPT can interpret speaking in tongues. The so-called ChatGPT tongues challenge is being discussed on YouTube, Reddit, Face...
A ten-year-old Christian girl from Kent has been named one of BAFTA’s 2025 Young Presenters. Elizabeth Okogwu, 10, and Afraz Hussain, 17, from Mitcham, were crowned winners in their age groups after...
A former Church in Wales priest has called on the Welsh parliament (Senedd) to hold an independent inquiry into the church’s safeguarding. Rev Graham Sawyer was speaking after further abuse allegati...
A Protestant Archbishop has condemned as “racist, threatening and offensive” an effigy of migrants in a boat which was burned during a Twelfth of July bonfire in Moygashel, County Tyrone. A large ...
A meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod in York could give final approval to a redress scheme for abuse survivors this week. Members are set to debate and vote on proposed amendments to t...
A new report by Youth for Christ (YfC) has found that a majority of British teenagers are open to learning more about God, with 67 per cent saying they believe in a higher spiritual force. The Z-A Gro...
The Diocese of Birmingham has been awarded over £17million to support church growth. It’s one of the largest awards from the Church of England's Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board ...
The Bishop of Leicester has denied accusing a churchwarden of witchcraft, after his stalker alleged he had been practising séances in St Nicholas’ Church. Venessa ‘Vee’ Pinto began stalking chu...
