A Christian charity is urging the 2016 London mayoral candidates to consider the voices of the city's young people in their actions and decisions. YMCA wants the hopefuls to put young people first, a...
A Christian charity is welcoming a drop in the number of youths rough sleeping but admits there are still too many people forced to live on the streets. In total, 826 young people slept on the stre...
A church on the east coast of Wales has upset local residents after yoga was banned from its new community centre. Parishioners have threatened to boycott St David's Church in the Ceredigion village ...
Table tennis, tightrope walking and indoor hockey have all been made regular features of the new ecclesial community. A church in York's been renamed the 'Sweaty Church' with plans to get families in...
York Minster has sacked all 30 of its church bell ringers because of health and safety concerns. It has also changed the locks on the bell tower so they cannot access the bells.According to the Daily...
York Minster has defended its decision to disband its bell-ringers, saying it was forced to because of safeguarding concerns surrounding one of the team. It's also suggested its efforts to find tempo...
Staging the traditional Mystery Plays last summer lost York Minster nearly £600,000, the landmark's annual accounts reveal. Leaders say demand for 40,000 tickets to watch 41 performances of the £1....
Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, has come out in support of a controversial decision by York Minister last week to dismiss its team of volunteer bell-ringer He has said some individuals repeatedl...
A new group of bell-ringers has been recruited for York Minster nearly a year after the controversial disbanding of the in-house team. The bells fell silent in October last year when the Minster's Ch...
Historic pipes from York Minster's grand organ are to be sold in an online auction to raise funds for a £2 million refurbishment of the instrument. The 30 pipes date from the early 1830s - when a ne...
York Minster has become the latest church to experiment with contactless payments from credit cards as an alternative to the traditional coins and cash. The digital collection plate was used for the ...
A new £11m project has begun to repair 600-year-old stained glass windows at York Minster. The windows date back to 1404 and tell the story of the spread of Christianity across the north of England....
Thousands of people gathered in Hull's historic Old Town at the weekend to celebrate the city's Holy Trinity Church being bestowed a special status by the Archb Most Rev Dr John Sentamu declared the ...
Final preparations are underway in Yorkshire for the start of the Tour de France. Churches across the area have come together to use the opportunity to offer hospitality and reach out.Co-ordinator Ca...
A number of churches in the north of England will receive Heritage Lottery Fund support after being surveyed by drones. The National Churches Trust has won the money to keep Yorkshire's churches we...
Pupils at a school in North Yorkshire have until this Friday to persuade their school that they shouldn't cancel Christmas! In assemblies last week, one of the RE teachers at Lady Lumley's specialist...
Less than a quarter of people think you must be a Christian to be considered British. The figure from a Nat Cen social attitudes survey has fallen from one third just a decade ago.Meanwhile the findi...
Politicians, celebrities and churches have been taking to social media to celebrate St George's Day, but it turns out they have all got the date wrong. The Church of England said that the celebration...
The Archbishop of Wales has sent a stark message to the government warning that it must save the steel industry after spending billions bailing out the banks. Dr Barry Morgan warned lives and communi...
Two young boys at a Catholic seminary were sexually abused "regularly, systematically and horrifically" by a priest, a jury has heard. Michael Higginbottom, 76, is said to have targeted his victims...
