Downing Street is getting backlash from church leaders and politicians who are outraged that Dr John Sentamu has not automatically received automatic lifer peerage. It would have allowed the 71-...
Church leaders want urgent financial support from the Government to protect church buildings. It's after a new report has highlighted the UK's increasing reliance on mainly-volunteer led servi...
The 98th Archbishop of York is set to be enthroned. Most Rev Stephen Cottrell will become the Church of England's second most senior clergyman during a service of Evensong at York Minster at 4pm o...
The bishop of Manchester has voiced his concerns over how he feels the Government is treating the north of England in regards to coronavirus restrictions. Rt Rev David Walker has said "the ...
Pope Francis has permanently removed a Polish bishop who was kicked out of his diocese a few months ago pending a Vatican investigation into allegations he covered up cases of sexual abuse by his prie...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to obey a ceasefire order after recent violence between the two nations has led to at least 600 deaths. The countries are fig...
With organs sitting untouched in historic churches across the country, the Diocese of Exeter has offered to teach young people how to play in the hope that it will produce a generation of passionate o...
A crematorium in South Wales that had banned mourners from saying the Lord's Prayer together, has backtracked on its decision after coronavirus rules were clarified. Funeral celebrant Alison Davie...
Work is under way to create a sculpture of a gargoyle depicting the famous annual cheese rolling competition. The 3ft tall grotesque figure is due to be installed on the roof of Gloucester Cathedral a...
A California health official has expressed concerns about a video in which a Bethel leader expressed her view that face masks are "worthless" in the fight against Covid-19. Pastor Beni Johns...
The Church of England has launched a new anti-racism task force to address racial injustice within the organisation. It comes after rising concerns earlier this year about insufficient progress made t...
The Rt Rev James Langstaff has announced that he will be retiring in July next year. Bishop James and his wife Bridget plan to return to Birmingham where he had been a priest before becoming a b...
The Vatican's swirling corruption investigation has taken a mysterious new twist with the arrest on an international warrant of a Sardinian woman said to be close to one of the Holy See's most...
A teenager who died of leukaemia in 2006 has been beatified by the Catholic Church in Assisi, Italy. Fifteen-year-old Carlo Acutis has been known as the patron of the internet as he used it to spread ...
The Anglican Archbishop of South America, the Most Rev Gregory Venables, is encouraging Christians to pray for the region as five out the ten countries with most coronavirus cases globally are South A...
Churches may have to be creative this year as the conditions on reopening shelters for people experiencing homelessness will mean less beds can be provided and many won't be able to open at all.&n...
Pope Francis has met with Cardinal George Pell in the Apostolic Palace after the cardinal's sex abuse conviction and acquittal in Australia. The Vatican released a brief video clip of the meeting,...
A minister who was leading a funeral service said she was left "flabbergasted" after being accused of breaking Covid-19 restrictions by encouraging mourners to recite the Lord...
The Church of Egland has provided over 17,000 online services and events since the start of lockdown, a newly published report has revealed. Figures taken from the denomination's A Churc...
A US federal judge has cited scripture in his ruling against a new ban on outdoor worship gatherings. Washington D.C. Judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of President Trump, ruled against Mayor M...
