The Church of England has analysed data from more than 12,000 churches to find out about worship trends during the pandemic. Many churches offered online services at the height of the lockdowns and ...
BBC One's Songs of Praise, the world's longest running religious television programme, is 60 years old tomorrow. A special programme will mark nearly 3,000 broadcasts since the first transmiss...
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...
An 82 year old priest has this weekend started walking the final ten half marathons of his epic challenge of completing 52 laps of an athletics track 83 times over the coming year. Prof Monsignor Vlad...
The Church of Ireland is to complete its divestment from companies that extract fossil fuels by the end of this year, fulfilling a commitment made in 2018. Several church groups and individual churc...
The Bishop of London has told Premier she's sorry after concerns were made by clergy over the Diocese of London's handling of safeguarding. In an interview with Premier earlier this week, nort...
The harms caused by gambling laden a huge economic burden on England and have significant links with alcohol and suicide, according to a new report. In 2019, the Department of Health and Social Care...
A Church of England priest has resigned from a clergy safeguarding support role in the Diocese of London saying safeguarding policy in the Church over the last two years has created more victims. Fath...
Efforts to translate the Bible into more languages across the world are accelerating, despite the pandemic. Wycliffe Bible Translators says 717 languages now have a full Bible translation - almost ten...
The first black female deacon in the Church of England is considering an appeal on the grounds of racism following a decision to dissolve her parish. Reverend Yvonne Clarke, was ordained as a deacon i...
The Diocese of Dromore has said it is committed to doing what it can to help bring healing to the survivors of clerical sexual abuse within its churches. The Northern Ireland diocese includes parts ...
A new report suggests that despite their challenges, online worship services are here for the long term as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Research from Manchester Metropolitan University and ...
The Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool is set to receive the city's highest civic honour following decades of service in various roles. The Right Reverend Tom Williams will be granted the Freedom of ...
Ancient Christian meditation practices are to be adopted in church schools in the Thames Valley to help tackle a growing mental health crisis The Diocese of Oxford has put together a toolkit founded...
The University of Nottingham has reversed its decision to deny a chaplaincy role to a priest over his views on abortion and assisted dying. The University of Nottingham originally rejected Father Davi...
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...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been offering his advice on how to share the good news of Jesus with others in under a minute. The Most Reverend Justin Welby has been touring the diocese of Guildford...
An innovative Evensong service has grown its attendance from one to 70 in the last few months by offering supper to its churchgoers after the service. St Paul without the Walls church in Canterbury ...
An evangelical church which hopes to welcome up to 500 people to Sunday worship services has just opened in a former Odeon cinema in Suffolk. Members of the Hope Church in Ipswich have turned the icon...
The Evangelical Fellowship in the Church in Wales (EFCW) has asked for representation on the bench of bishops from someone who believes marriage is only between a man and a woman. The evangelical wi...
