A Church of England priest at a parish in Sneinton has been suspended by the diocese. Revd Andrew Waude had been working at St Cyprian's Church, in Lancaster Road before being suspended of all minist...
A group of mothers in Nottinghamshire have produced a "naked" calendar to help fund repairs to a local church targeted by thieves. Mums angered by the theft of lead from St John the Baptist in East M...
Writer Marlon James has said he desperately wanted to "drive out the gay" with an evangelical exorcism. The Jamaican writer and winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize has said he endured an "extreme" at...
The Church of England is announcing plans for next month's General Synod. The governing body will once again look at the issue of women bishops, but this is expected to take just minutes.It will be�...
A man who is fighting for his life after being exposed to the chemical weapon Novichok was assumed to be drunk at a church event before being hospitalised. Roy Collins, secretary at Amesbury Baptist ...
The NSPCC, a child abuse prevention charity, said it should be illegal for religious leaders to have sex with older teenagers in their care. The organisation told the Sunday Telegraph that 16 and 17 ...
Scholar and theologian NT Wright has been appointed as senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford. The former Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Prof Nicholas Thomas Wright is curr...
Celebrated theologian and author, NT Wright has gone on record saying that the concept of The Rapture, which was the basis of the global best selling 'Left Behi The comment, which was made as part of...
Using nuclear weapons is "suicide as well as genocide", a senior church figure has warned. The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell, also questioned whether people felt safe with "Donald...
A series of nude paintings have been removed from a cathedral's art exhibition after they "distressed" visitors and worshippers. The four acrylic canvas works by local artist Joe Greenwood were on di...
The number of people in "extremely" or "fairly" unhappy marriages or long-term relationships has doubled between 2010 and 2014. The latest Official for National Statistics figures revealed that 4.8 p...
The number of British people referred to The Salvation Army's specialist support for adult victims of modern slavery has nearly doubled in a year. A new report by the Christian charity has been relea...
The number visiting Church of England cathedrals at Christmas is at record highs. Around 135,000 attended services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day last year. That's an increase of three per cent o...
More web pages containing child sex abuse images are being removed than ever before, a watchdog has claimed. Branding the figures "staggering", the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) says nearly 70,000 ...
Two in every five independent faith schools in the UK now requires improvement or is inadequate, inspectors have concluded. The proportion scoring worse than a good ranking rose from 31 per cent to 4...
Women now make up a fifth of serving vicars. The number of female clergy in the Church of England has risen by forty one per cent in the past decade.Women now make up a fifth of serving vicars. While...
The number of pupils in England and Wales taking GCSE Religious Studies has fallen for the third year in a row. According to a new data, numbers decreased by 1.6 per cent between 2017 and 2018.Less t...
More Scots than ever are describing themselves as having no religion, according to new research. ScotCen, found 58 per cent of respondents said they had no religion at all, compared with 40 per cent ...
A Christian researcher said that she thinks the number of people from Britain being illegally trafficked is higher than official figures show. Revd Dr Carrie Pemberton-Ford from the Cambridge Centr...
This academic year, 544 men and women will be starting their training for ordination in the Church of England - the highest figure for 10 years. The number of younger ordinands, those under 32, ros...
