The Bishop of Gloucester will face no further action from police over two allegations of indecent assault dating back to the 1980s. Rt Rev Michael Perham stepped back from his duties after being que...
A Christian charity is calling on the chancellor not to delay cutting the maximum bet on fixed-odds betting machines (FOBTs) any further. It's been more than five months since the government announce...
A single complaint has put an end to the clock of a Kent church chiming at night. For the last 238 years, bells at St Peter's Church in Sandwich have rung every 15 minutes between 11pm and 7am.Howeve...
Winter night shelters and homelessness charities say they have been overwhelmed with volunteers this Christmas. The Salvation Army and Crisis have had to turn applications from potential volunteers d...
Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor reportedly turned down a move to Aston Villa because he never received a sign from God. The striker had already completed a medical and posed for pictures ...
Police forces in some parts of the country are closing nearly a half of investigations into racially and religiously-aggravated offences without identifying a s In the twelve months to September 2018...
A Church of Scotland clergyman has said Christians who vote no in the Scottish independence referendum are not 'living by [Christian] principles'. Revd Tommy Bryson told Premier Christians are asked ...
No-fault divorces would be introduced under a planned shake-up of the "archaic" law governing the end of marriages, the Justice Secretary has announced. The need for couples to separate or allege "fa...
A head teacher in Essex has stopped her six and seven-year-old pupils performing in the annual Nativity play, so they can prepare more for upcoming exams. Christine Peden defended the decision at Pea...
The Christian charity Restored Relationships have received a letter from Downing Street, acknowledging the help they give women. Restored is made up of an alliance of churches who work with Christi...
A 12ft replica of Noah's Ark has docked in Ipswich, sailing from the Netherlands. Designer of the 70-metre long boat, Dutch artist and TV producer Sir Aad Peters, said it is not a Christian centre, b...
A replica of Noah's Ark is now open to the public in Ipswich, having made a spontaneous stop in the UK because of Brexit. The boat is 70 metres long, open to the public every day and designed by Aad ...
Noel Edmonds has launched an astonishing attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury, criticising for failing to meet with HBOS fraud victims and investing in Lloyds The Deal or No Deal TV star - who is s...
An organisation created to promote unity across the breadth of the church is facing serious division over its leadership following the election of a gay preside Churches Together in England (CTE) has...
The idea that non-believers in God lack morality has been disputed by new research, experts said. A common supposition - that of the purposeless disbeliever, lacking anything to ascribe ultimate mean...
A High Court judge paused for thought when a Jain began to swear an oath on a Christian Bible before giving evidence at a trial. Mr Justice Holman questioned whether Ankul Daga's oath would be corr...
A Syrian priest has condemned the prime minister's plan to get every Syrian refugee child back in school by the end of this year, declaring it "nonsense". Speaking on Premier's News Hour Revd Nadim N...
The family of a Christian teenage girl who drowned while trying to save her friend, who also died, after getting into trouble swimming in a Norfolk broad have s Stella Kambi, 17, tried to save Bonheu...
A Church of England vicar from Norfolk says the appointment of a female bishop to oversee his local diocese is something he could not accept. Fr Howard Stoker, the rector of Holt with High Kelling, w...
A Twitter spat has erupted between the editor of an evangelical website and a North Korean government official over claims that Christians are being persecuted Evangelical Focus editor Joel Forster ...
