Oxford undergraduates that are studying theology will now have to study less Christianity in their second year. The degree is one of the university's oldest and will be amended to adapt to modern c...
A Church of England has said the removal of Victorian pews at an Oxfordshire church was "highly unfortunate, to put it mildly". Our Lady of Bloxham near Banbury took out the rows of seating to make w...
Planners in Oxfordshire have found an inventive way to reopen a 17th Century Church - they're turning part of the building into flats. Chipping Norton Baptist Church closed five years ago when it fel...
An Oxfordshire school says it will now provide alternative arrangements for children who've been withdrawn from Christian assemblies. Earlier this year, humanists Lee and Lizanne Harris claimed their...
An Anglican priest, who's accused of spiritually abusing a teenager, has been found guilty of misconduct by a Church court. Rev Timothy Davis, from Christ Church Abingdon, is said to have breached sa...
A Church of England minister was allowed to keep practicing after admitting sexual offences to his bishop. Stephen Crabtree, 59, admitted to his bishop that he committed sexual offences against a...
A priest from Ireland who was found guilty of sexually abusing a child in his care at a religious school in Santiago has avoided a prison sentence. John O'Reilly moved to Chile from Ireland in 1985 a...
A priest who abused 13 children and lied about it in court has been jailed for 12 years. Phillip Temple, 66, admitted 27 counts of non-recent sexual assault and two counts of perjury at Woolwich Crow...
"Toothless" monitoring of convicted paedophile priests meant they were able to continue leading Anglican Church services even after being banned from doing so, Bishop Wallace Parke Benn told the Inq...
Convicted paedophile and disgraced former BBC presenter Stuart Hall says he's a changed man and now prays for his victims. When asked if he was going to publicly apologise for sexually abusing the yo...
A former church youth worker and trainee vicar faces jail after being found guilty of three counts of child rape. Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court also found Timothy Storey, 35, guilty of one assault b...
A pagan group has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury asking the Church of England to give it two church buildings that were seized during the Christianisat According to the Sunday Telegraph, The...
Two workers with a stomach for heights have scaled Britain's tallest cathedral spire in order to change four light bulbs. Gary Price, Richard Pike and two safety rope experts took three hours to clim...
Police in Pakistan have accepted that a twelve year old Christian girl was murdered more than three weeks after declaring she had committed suicide. Tania Mariyam's family had consistently said the g...
A protest and memorial service is taking place outside Downing Street for a Christian couple killed in Pakistan earlier this month. 26-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 24-year-old wife Shama Bibi who, ...
A Christian who fled Pakistan because of persecution for his Christian faith, has been beaten up in Derby. On Friday evening, Tajamal Amar received a broken nose and several deep cuts to his head out...
Two Pakistani Christians, who were originally banned from visiting Scotland, will visit a church there after a government u-turn. The Home Office refused travel visas for the pair over concerns they ...
A Christian palliative care specialist has called on the government and the NHS to provide better end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. Professor Rob George, who is the President of the Assoc...
Pancake lovers are being encouraged to join a pancake tossing race on Shrove Tuesday in aid of cash-strapped Peterborough Cathedral. The Cambridgeshire landmark, which last year needed to borrow mone...
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby caused a moment of panic at a wedding he was officiating after he dropped the bride's ring. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Welby was marrying his head of med...
