Mother's names in England and Wales will now be included in marriage certificates. Currently, only the father's name of both the bride and groom is included as a parent, a tradition that dat...
The UK church is being praised for its response to aid India with its current acute lack of oxygen as a result of the surge in coronavirus cases. The country has recorded nearly 370,000 new coronavir...
A High Court judge has given doctors the go-ahead to end the life of a brain-damaged six-year-old girl who has been at the centre of a long-running treatment fight. Mr Justice Poole has approved a pla...
A new prayer post feature is being tested on Facebook that will allow members of Facebook groups to ask for and respond to prayer requests. The move by the social media giant was confirmed to the Reli...
A Kendal based curate has climbed the equivalent height of Mount Everest by walking up and down his church bell tower, 500 times in one week. Craig Bentley, of St Mark's in Natland has become well...
The Archbishop of Wales, The Most Reverend John Davies, has retied after serving as Archbishop of Wales for four years and as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon for 13 years. In his outgoing video message, ...
A £2.3m campaign is underway to to build a memorial inside St Paul's Cathedral remembering those who've died as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It would see an online book of remembrance s...
Essex Police have released photos of more than 130 people who attended an illegal music event at a 500-year-old church during lockdown on New Years' Eve. Hundreds of ravers joined in with the even...
More than 4,000 Church of England parishes are estimated to have stepped up support to the wider community during the coronavirus pandemic. From listening services to food deliveries, a new report by ...
A pastor who was accompanying a street preacher arrested outside a London tube station has told Premier he believes the Met Police are putting the rights of gay people ahead of others. Pastor Peter Si...
Christian charity, Sports Chaplaincy UK has joined football clubs, players and governing bodies in a social media boycott in a bid to tackle online abuse and discrimination this weekend. The action st...
The Racial Justice Advocacy Forum (RJAF) has published a number of recommendations for churches to put into practice in response to the government's commissioned race report. The RJAF's own re...
The Church of England has launched a new vision for its engagement with the Further Education (FE) sector. The report 'Vocation, Transformation & Hope' has highlighted three main ways the Chur...
The Queen has held video calls with two newly-appointed bishops, along with holding a Privy Council meeting and a weekly telephone audience with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The monarch who is adjust...
The Bishop of Southwark has told Premier he supports calls for a memorial to a young man who died trying to save a woman from the Thames. 20-year-old Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole dived into the water f...
The Conservative MP for South West Devon, Gary Streeter, has told Premier he believes the PM over accusations he did not pay for the redecoration of his Downing Street flat. On Wednesday, during a hea...
A fundraising campaign, set up by a vicar and his wife, to help those in poorer parts of the world access coronavirus vaccines, has to date raised £145,000. Rev Scott Patterson and his wife Rowan, wh...
Poverty is destroying lives across the UK, according to the charity Christians Against Poverty. In a new report on the impact of debt during the pandemic, the charity found over half of those asked fe...
Cutting foreign aid during the current financial year will have a bigger impact on the funding of projects, a senior church leader has warned. The level of reduction that has to be made will be greate...
The Salvation Army is calling on England's mayoral candidates to sign a pledge to end rough sleeping. The charity has written to candidates who are standing for Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Demo...
