Rural churches no longer have to hold a weekly Sunday service after the Church of England voted to a change to canon law. The original amendment, which was part of canon law, obliged all parish churc...
The Church of England wants UK laws on closing rural schools to be reviewed in an effort to close small village schools that aren't effective in giving pupils t Currently, statutory guidance on closi...
A new £20 million fund announced in the Chancellor's Budget on Wednesday for repairs to cathedrals is being welcomed by the Church of England. The organisation says that in 2014 a £20 million grant...
The archbishops of Canterbury and York are calling on the UK's political leaders to draw on "Christian hope and reconciliation" to help steer the country throug Amid the sometimes toxic mood of the p...
Dame Caroline Spelman has told Premier she has suffered enough abuse as a result of the Brexit debate and is ready to support the Archbishop of Canterbury at th Caroline Spelman, who liaises between ...
There is a fresh bid to ensure more than a dozen war memorials in churches and churchyards across England are preserved for future generations. Church war memorials in England getting listed status: ...
As a new benefit cap comes into force, a coalition of churches is warning poor children will be hit the hardest. The Church of Scotland, the Baptist Union, the Methodist Church and the United Reforme...
The Church of England is urging Parliament not to vote through an amendment which would allow three-parent embryos, because there isn't enough scientific resear MPs are voting on the amendment to the...
A vicar who was a victim of disgraced bishop Peter Ball said he was met with "cruel and sadistic" treatment when he dared to speak out about his experience. The abuse he suffered at the hands of the ...
A couple who were concerned they would not be able to marry due to the severe flooding in the north of England have managed to tie the knot. Lucy and Peter Nickson married at Selby Abbey on Monday,...
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are planning a religious ceremony after becoming legally married during a secretive wedding last year, it is reported. A source has been quoted by a US celebrity maga...
Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams has walked down the aisle of her childhood church and married a soldier that she met on dating app Tinder 18 months ago. The couple said "I do" in Williams's child...
It was a white wedding with a difference when up to 40 people helped the couple defy the weather and made sure the bride got to the church more or les Drivers in 4x4s and a tractor with a plough cl...
The priest at the church where Olympians Jason Kenny and Laura Trott got married has called it a "great gift". Olympic champion Laura Trott described her wedding to fellow gold medallist Jason Kenny ...
A decision by the Prime Minister to remove a fee for European Union citizens desiring to remain in the UK after Brexit has been welcomed by the Catholic Church Bishop Paul McAleenan, who speaks for ...
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, says she believes same sex marriages will be allowed by the Church of Scotland within her lifetime. Ms Davidson, who is a member of the Church...
A woman who campaigned to stop a 60-metre wind turbine being built near her village church has won a High Court fight. Jane Mordue complained that a turbine on a farm in Wappenham, Northamptonshire w...
A church has won a case to evict a family of asylum seekers who have lived rent-free in one of its properties for more than two years. The family, originally from Nigeria, including three children, a...
A church in Staffordshire has successfully seen off opposition from conservationists in their bid to display poppies commemorating the war dead, throughout the A Church of England judge at the insti...
The number of recorded sex offences by adults in 'positions of trust' has risen by 82 per cent in the last three years. However, the term 'position of trust' in the law only covers teachers, nurses a...
