A legal challenge to Northern Ireland's ban on gay marriage opened on Thursday. The landmark challenge has been launched by two couples - Grainne Close and Shannon Sickles and Chris and Henry Flanaga...
A Christian youth organisation has told Premier the ban on legal highs is unlikely to have much impact. The YMCA was speaking after new rules to outlaw so-called "legal highs" come into force in the ...
The largest LEGO model ever built by the general public has been completed at Durham Cathedral after a schoolgirl laid the last piece. Seven-year-old Pearl Richardson from Newcastle told Premier she ...
Leicester Cathedral still stands by its choice to host a theatrical production of Shakespeare's Richard III, despite hundreds protesting the decision. More than 700 people have signed a petition on C...
Leicester Cathedral has joined the celebrations as Leicester City Football Club prepares to make history this Sunday. If Leicester City FC, known as the Foxes, beat Manchester United on the weekend i...
Leicester Cathedral has been named as the place where the Queen will worship on Maundy Thursday and hand out the traditional Maundy money. Though steeped in tradition, the modern Royal Maundy ceremon...
Plans to revamp Leicester Cathedral - now the final resting place of King Richard III - have been given a major cash boost. It's been awarded £3.325 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund.The money wi...
The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement has told Premier it is "sad" that a Christian county clerk in Kentucky has been jailed for refusing to issue marriage lic "She did put the judge in a very diffi...
A royal visit has recognised the work of church-goers in Durham to help children in Africa orphaned by AIDS. The King and Queen of Lesotho have been on touring the Diocese during a three-day visit to...
New research has found fewer than one in three Britons believe faith matters. Ipsos Mori found 30 per cent of people said religion is important to them, a figure significantly lower than the global a...
New relationships lessons planned by the Government may "stigmatise" traditional marriage, two leading conservative Christian figures have warned. Thomas Pascoe from Coalition for Marriage and the fo...
Lessons about Jesus should include exploration of how Muslims view him as a prophet and investigation of his Jewish identity, experts have said. Showing pupils a range of perspectives on Jesus from d...
Christian fashion expert, Simon Ward, says if fashion is your servant it's great but if it's your master it's a "real tyrant." As London Fashion Week approaches, statistics suggest the average man sp...
Boys and girls should be free to wear a princess tutu and high heels as well as, or, a fireman's helmet and tool belt, the Church of England has said. Nursery and primary school children ought to be ...
Muslim primary school teachers should be allowed to wear head veils whilst in the classroom, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has said. Lord Rowan Williams said fears that a woman covering her face ...
The Church of England is bringing the collection plate into the digital age with the introduction of contactless payment terminals across every diocese. As of today, the CofE is making portable card ...
Letters released on Saturday reveal that the Church of England and Downing Street clashed over proposals to exclude former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from They say Mrs Thatcher is said to have ...
Letters withheld by an ex-archbishop of Canterbury "could have made a difference" to the investigation into disgraced bishop Peter Ball, a former senior police Wayne Murdock, senior investigating of...
The Prime Minister's decision to allow Conservative ministers to vote with their conscience in the EU referendum has been welcomed by a Christian MP. David Burrowes, who represents the London constit...
The decision by a university to warn theology students in advance they may find Jesus' crucifixion distressing and allow them to leave the class if it's to Reacting to the decision by the University...
