Families need to do more to prevent 'Facetime Fathers,' dads that only have contact with their children via apps and texts. That is the message from Christian family group Fegans. It has been speakin...
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has said stop and search operations in London will be stepped up to tackle an increase in violent crime - mostly involving Cressida Dick said children as young a...
Churches are being warned they must take more security precautions to tackle the rise in threat from Islamic extremists. The Counter Terrorism Advice for Churches booklet says clergy should hire some...
A new national project is encouraging churches to listen to those in their community in order to best meet their needs. The Listen Up! initiative was designed by the Diocese of Sheffield and Church A...
Churches are being encouraged to open their doors as a sanctuary for young people, in an effort to combat youth violence. Fatal stabbings in England and Wales reached record levels last year, as the ...
Churches are being encouraged to open up as youth centres to put a stop to the rising number of young people being caught up in knife crime. Pastor Lorraine Jones from London lost her son Dwayne to a...
In a statement the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Quakers and United Reformed Church wants MPs to make Britain a low-carb Five of Britain's major Churches are u...
Several churches in north London have partnered in an effort of finding a way to address knife crime in the area. A three day conference called GC3 (Great Commandment + Great Commission + Great City)...
Churches are benefiting from the support of secular charities to serve local communities according to new research. A study by think tank Demos reveals churches are almost four times as likely to par...
The Presbyterian and Catholic churches have openly opposed the motion that has been tabled in the country's assembly, with a vote due to take place on Church groups in Northern Ireland are encourag...
There is fresh encouragement for churches to be welcoming and outward-looking, after new research found more people don't have even one close friend. Figures from the charity Relate reveal the propor...
Church groups planning a visit from a clown are being urged not to cancel the visit in response to the "killer clown" craze sweeping across Britain. The sinister trend that came across from the Unite...
One Cumbria church hit by bad weather last winter is encouraging others to "get their hands dirty" and help communities across the UK affected by the recent sto The Environment Agency kept 23 flood w...
Churches across the country are being encouraged to have an online presence to promote positive social spaces for the public. It comes after research from The Royal Society for Public Health revealed...
A Christian charity's organising carol services with the hymn Silent Night in churches and sports stadia across the country, commemorating one hundred years sin HOPE together's picked the hymn becaus...
There's a call for churches to do more to discuss mental health as a new poll has found one in three teenagers have considered self-harm. Drug and alcohol charity Addaction's research also found a th...
Christians are being urged to do more to help lonely older people in their community as a bid is launched to recruit 30,000 volunteers to help. Charity Friends of the Elderly is calling for people to...
A Christian charity is calling on churches across the UK to work with them to prevent more people ending their own lives. Christians Against Poverty is making the appeal on the 13th annual World Suic...
Churches and youth workers are being encouraged to get up to speed with social media and the internet to support those who are self-harming. A new poll, commissioned in the run up to Self-Harm Awaren...
Christian charity World Vision is calling on local councils across the UK to 'pull out all the stops' in finding homes for unaccompanied refugee children from E It's after politicians in Westminster ...