Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has criticised the government's decision to end the Universal Credit uplift. Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the £20 top-up was only introduced to help people thro...
Pope Francis and other religious leaders made a joint appeal on Monday for next month's U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) to offer concrete solutions to save the planet from "an unprecedented...
A Christian charity is calling on the government to urgently curb internet pornography to prevent more cases of sexual violence. CARE released a statement after it emerged that Sarah Everard's ra...
Leading human rights lawyers have called for a swift ban on so-called conversion therapy - practices which seek to suppress or change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Earlier this...
Scotland's finance secretary, Kate Forbes, has spoken about how she finds talking about her Christian faith in public. Kate Forbes grew up in Scotland and then India as her Dad taught the Bible a...
Over 1,100 church leaders have signed a letter to the Prime Minister urging the government not to scrap the £20 Universal Credit uplift. In the letter to Boris Johnson, created in partnership with th...
Labour delegates meeting at the party conference in Brighton have been called to “Love thy neighbour”. That was the message preached at the Labour Party’s conference church service on Sunday mor...
The Christian church in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly hidden, according to the charity, Release International. It says Christians are now fleeing the cities for more remote areas in a bid to re...
The Diocese of Oxford has condemned the actions of some clergy taking part in protests over climate change, saying they have 'frustrated many people.' In a statement issued to Premier, the Dio...
Dame Andrea Leadsom MP has opened up about the reasons why she withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership race in 2016 and how sometimes climbing the career ladder is the best way to get things d...
An MP is calling on the Government to step in to help repair and maintain parish churches. In a written parliamentary question, Alex Stafford, Conservative MP for Rother Valley said the cost of repair...
The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear oral arguments on December 1st for a Mississippi case involving abortion bans that many hope could challenge Roe v. Wade. The United States Supreme Co...
Heidi Crowther, the Christian campaigner who is seeking to change the law on abortion in cases of Down's Syndrome and other non-fatal disabilities, has said that she will not give up her fight, ju...
Church of England bishops are backing calls for the leaders of the world's richest countries to halt the "hoarding" of Covid-19 vaccines while billions of people around the world have yet to be ja...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called on the government to "put right" the fact that a group of war widows who remarried after the deaths of their husbands, are not allowed to claim their pensions. ...
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has tweeted out his support for a Labour MP who was labelled as transphobic for liking a tweet that stated “individuals with a cervix” should instead be ...
More than 50 religious leaders from across the UK have signed a declaration urging governments to take transformational climate action at the COP26 summit in November. The Glasgow Multi-Faith Declarat...
The Government has launched a 'Faith New Deal Pilot Fund' to build trust between national government, local government and faith groups by encouraging faith groups and local authorities to use...
Michael D Higgins, President of Ireland, will not be attending a church service to mark the centenary of the partition of Ireland as he says it has been 'politicised'. Higgins, who has been Pr...
Christian MP Jim Shannon has asked for parliament to recognise the contribution of Christian charity Faith in Later Life in their service to older people. The MP for Strangford has submitted and Early...
