Two people questioned after three women were allegedly held as slaves in south London, were previously arrested in the 1970s. The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) wants society to be more 'vigil...
The Salvation Army says the number of slavery victims helped in England and Wales has risen almost fivefold since 2012. The Christian charity has a contract from the government to offer support to vi...
Sleeping around and living together before wedlock is ruining young people's chances of a happy marriage, according to the UK's leading Catholic. Cardinal Vincent Nichols says casual sex could be wit...
Unemployment has risen slightly, by 10,000 between May and July 2015. But a Christian charity says although the rise is small these people are more than numbers.James Carne from Christian Against Pov...
Ronnie O'Sullivan has said God told him to give up snooker as he looks for the 29th ranking title of his career. The 40-year-old started in emphatic fashion after needing just 56 minutes to complete ...
Revd Nicholas Lowton said the heavy snow and icy conditions made Craswell Church "pretty inaccessible" on Sunday. The bad weather's forced a vicar to hold a church service in his home in a Herefordsh...
A snowboarding vicar has blessed the piste of the UK's longest indoor real snow slope to mark the official end of the European ski season. Snowboarder, Rev Steven Young snowboarded down the slopes on...
Easter eggs on supermarket shelves in August? It's baffled many UK shoppers after Cadbury decided to sell its Mini Eggs this summer. The company usually only has the chocolate treat for sale between ...
A Christian expert has said a warning that social media is creating a public health crisis among young people is only representing one side of the story. On Thursday MPs are hearing children are bein...
Social services bosses at a London council have defended a decision to place a five-year-old girl from an English-speaking Christian family with mixed-race fost Managers at Tower Hamlets Council say ...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that society risks "collapse" unless the rich reach out to people. Most Revd Justin Welby was writing in The Daily Telegraph and argued against the idea of des...
A church in Norfolk has made a six-metre tall soldier out of poppies to commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War. The project at All Saints in Belton to remember the Armistice in 19...
Research has found that the sober church funeral with tearful mourners in black has made way for novelty coffins and grievers in super hero costumes. Co-op Funeralcare said there is a growing trend t...
A number of parents are living in fear of investigations by social services, according to a Christian group. The Christian Institute commissioned a poll that claims one in four parents are worried ab...
A street preacher from Somerset is due in court following his arrest at the weekend. Michael Overd was detained in Fore Street, Bridgwater on Saturday 26th January. He is accused of breaking the cond...
Villagers in three of the county's villages in Northmoor, Saltmoor and Fordgate are being advised to leave their homes because of a severe flood warning. Police are urging people in three Somerset vi...
A man has been forced to sell his house to repay more than £70,000 stolen by his mother from her congregation when she was a church treasurer. Janet Farquhar, 70, stole £72,155.34 - including from ...
Canon Andrew White, known as the Vicar of Baghdad, has revealed his son was rushed to hospital after collapsing on Wednesday. Writing on Facebook, he said: "It has been a rather difficult few hours. ...
A rap song which speaks of the Christian understanding of grace has become the first single to go platinum on a rebrand of the awards given to musicians. Blinded by you grace part 2 by Stormzy has ...
Songs of Praise will feature, for the first time, a same sex wedding in Sundays's episode. The episode included the wedding of Jamie Wallace and Ian McDowall at the Rutherglen United Reformed Church ...
