Church leaders are being given more support to encourage congregations to take up clergy roles within the Church of England. The church wants to find new role models, increase the number of minority ...
A Christian charity has produced a new resource which is aiming to help churches be more welcoming towards the poor. It highlights good work being done in many churches to respond to the growing prob...
Church youth workers are being warned not to use the internet as a "digital babysitter" to keep youngsters occupied, as a new report reveals 70 per cent of chil The new figures released on Safer Inte...
Dozens of school friends joined two Christian teenager brothers to hand in an 85,000-signature petition to the Home Office to prevent their deportation to Pakis Somer Umeed Bakhsh, 15, and his brothe...
More than 150 events are being held across the UK this week, offering people the opportunity to learn more about what it means to be a Quaker. Friends meeting houses throughout the nation are opening...
In what some may see as a reverse trend, plans are underfoot to convert a Northern Ireland pub into a church. The former Rose and Crown pub in Northern Ireland is scheduled to begin its makeover in S...
A former safari camp worker from South Africa has become the first woman to be ordained as a Church of Scotland minister on the Isle of Skye. Janet Easton-Berry will lead the charge of Bracadale and ...
A former church choirmaster who went on run after being convicted of child sex offences is now starting his 21-year jail term. John Gilbert Blacktop, 81, from Morecambe in Lancashire, went on the run...
Bells will ring out at the historic church where the Queen married the Duke of Edinburgh, 70 years to the day that the royal couple said their vows. On their platinum wedding anniversary, a full ce...
The largest study of its kind has discovered more than 33,000 social action projects are run or supported by Church of England churches. That means 80 per cent of congregations are involved in one or...
A fund to raise money for a 101-year-old woman mugged as she returned home from a prayer meeting has raised double its target. Just hours after being set up a Crowd Funder page for pensioner Alexteen...
Churches welcome government decision to increase funding by 2025. Churches are being encouraged to follow the Government's lead in tackling dementia.David Cameron's announced he will double the money...
The funeral has taken place of a Glasgow shopkeeper who was killed after wishing his Christian friends a happy Easter on Facebook. Asad Shah, 40, was attacked outside his store and was found injure...
Thousands of people have attended mass at St Mary's Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle for the funeral of a man from Newcastle who was killed in last month's plane Newcastle United fan Liam Sweeney was ...
The church-going teenager who was found dead in the Malaysian jungle will be laid to rest following a funeral in Belfast next week. Nora Quoirin's body was discovered last month about 1.6 miles from ...
A funeral has been held for a Northern Irish priest who's been called a "champion of the peace process" in the nation. Fr Gerry Reynolds (above, left) died of a short illness on November 30th at the ...
The funeral of two Northern Irish nuns who were killed in a car crash has taken place in Ardoyne, Belfast. Sister Frances Forde and Sister Marie Duddy died after their vehicle hit a police car on a r...
The funeral of a Christian grandmother murdered at her home in eastern Scotland has been attended by around 190 people. Revd Gilbert Nisbet led tributes to the 82-year-old, describing her as a "kind ...
The funeral of Cardinal Keith O'Brien, formerly the Catholic Church's most senior cleric in Britain, is being held in Newcastle. The 80-year-old, who resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburg...
The family of the Christian campaigner Jill Saward have invited "all those who knew and loved Jill" to her funeral. It will take place next week at Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire.In a statement...
