A former Free Church of Scotland Moderator has been tweeting each book in the Bible in just four words. Rev Dr Iain D Campbell has been shared one bite-sized description every day on Twitter since Ap...
A former nightclub owner has swapped nights out in the capital to lead a Church of Scotland congregation in Fife. Rev Mike Weaver, 49, used to co-own Los Locos, a venue which prides itself on being C...
A former police force chaplain has appeared before Cambridgeshire Magistrates Court charged with making and possessing indecent images of children. 42-year old Stephen Talbot of Main Street, Little D...
A former Roman Catholic priest told jurors he fled to Kosovo out of "cowardice and stupidity" after being accused of abusing boys at a Catholic school. Andrew Soper (also known as Father Laurence So...
A former priest will appear in court charged with a string of historical sex offences against teenage boys after he returned to Britain from Kosovo following a Fr Laurence Soper, 72, is accused of a...
A Catholic priest has been cleared by a jury of historical allegations that he sexually abused nine girls and one boy. Limerick-born Father Mortimer Stanley, 82, from Ballybunion in County Kerry, had...
A priest who defrauded the Church of England of nearly £50,000 in funeral fees will not face jail time. Dr. Andrew Hawthorne stole tens of thousands of pounds in fees from grieving family members, a...
The chaplain of a top private school has been jailed for 12 years for abusing nine pupils across three decades. Gary Dobbie was found guilty last month of four counts of indecent assault against a bo...
A top private school's former chaplain will stand trial facing allegations he sexually abused one of his teenage pupils. Gary Dobbie is accused of assaulting the young boy on several occasions while ...
Around 1,000 men and women will be ordained into the Church of England this summer to minister in communities across the country, including a prison worker and Craig Henderson will be ordained a dea...
A former chaplain to the Queen has criticised a recent study which says a quarter of Christians don't believe in the resurrection. Rev Dr Gavin Ashenden wrote a letter to the editor in The Times.He...
A former Satanist and heroin user has left behind his life of addiction to serve God. George Bearwood is training to be a priest for the Church in Wales at St Padarn's college, Llandaff after searchi...
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, formerly the Catholic Church's most senior cleric in Britain, has died at the age of 80. He had recently been injured in a fall and died in a Newcastle hospital.Cardinal O'Bri...
One of the Church of England's most important men has been given a knighthood in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. One of the Church of England's most important men has been given a knighthood in ...
Venerable Beverly Mason, a former stockbroker, has been appointed the next Bishop of Warrington. Ven Mason, currently the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven in the Diocese of Leeds, will minister alon...
A former comprehensive school teacher has been appointed as the next Bishop of Truro. The Rev Canon Philip Mounstephen, 59, will become the 16th bishop when he is consecrated later this year.He is cu...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been criticised after it was reported he would chair public meetings aimed at avoiding a no-deal Brexit. Leading Commons figures opposed to breaking EU ties without a...
A former church youth leader and trainee vicar is to be sentenced for raping two teenage girls. Timothy Storey, 35, preyed on his victims at religious summer camps he worked at which they attended "f...
Angela Atim Lakor, a survivor of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been honoured for her contribution to building peace, tackling stigma and suppor Lakor, who's a partner of Christian ch...
An ex-vicar has denied raping a school child more than 40-years-ago. 74-year-old Frederick Williams, of Central Street, Ludgershall is on trial at Salisbury Crown Court facing two charges of rape, ...
