Worcester Cathedral is searching for its former choir members to mark 150 years of its voluntary choir. Affectionately known as ‘Vollers’, both children and adult volunteer choristers have worn t...
A Christian charity volunteer has received £13,000 and an apology after her arrests for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was first arrested by West Midlands Police i...
Bristol Airport is planning permanent new faith facilities after consulting with chaplains. Last November the airport opened a multi-faith area which was ridiculed as looking like a bus stop or a smok...
Two churches in Kent are opening at the same time, for the first time since the Black Death. Dode and Paddlesworth in the North Downs were thriving neighbouring settlements until the plague struck in ...
International Christian aid organisation World Vision is calling for immediate action to protect children from the deadly mpox variant spreading across Central Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo...
John Mason, a Christian Member of Scottish Parliament, has lost the SNP whip over comments about Gaza deemed “unacceptable”. In effect, he has been expelled from the SNP and will now sit as an ind...
Reverend Suzan Williams has been appointed to lead ministry in the parishes of Bridgnorth and Morville. Her ministry will be part of the Diocese of Hereford, covering Acton Round, Astley Abbotts, As...
From September, churches raising money to reduce carbon emissions will be able to double their funds to do so, under a CofE matched funding scheme. ‘Give to Go Green’ was piloted in the dioceses o...
A former gym in Lancashire will be swapping warm-ups for worship, as a planning application has been submitted to renovate it into an evangelical church. An application to transform the former ladies�...
The number of students studying Religious Education at A Level is declining, prompting calls from education leaders to better fund the subject. In England, the number of students taking the subject wa...
Police in Ireland are investigating whether an attack on an army chaplain in County Galway was linked to terrorism. Fr Paul Murphy, was stabbed outside Renmore Army Barracks at about 10.45pm on Thursd...
Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and partner Lauren Sanchez have met with the Pope whilst holidaying in Italy. Sanchez, 54, wrote on Instagram: “It was an honor for Jeff and me to spend time wi...
The vicar of a coastal church in Northumberland says urgent action has to be taken to prevent its graveyard from falling into the sea. Thirty years ago work was undertaken to shore up the coastal defe...
An independent report has revealed that some dioceses in the Church of England have stopped using the word “church” to describe the “new things” being established in their parishes. The repor...
The Church of Scotland has urged the UK government to call for an “immediate and permanent” ceasefire in Gaza. In a letter addressed to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, the Church’s Israel Palesti...
The Episcopal Church has launched a chatbot called ‘AskCathy’, designed to generate theologically accurate answers about the church. ‘Cathy’ stands for ‘Churchy Answers That Help You’. The...
Former vicar Jonathan Fletcher has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of indecent assault on a male person. The offences allegedly took place between 1973 and 1999. Fletcher, who was regarded as a le...
In South Carolina, a Christian cook who lost his job for not working Sundays will receive a $40,000 (£31,144) settlement. Eddie Moton Jr. was initially granted a religious accommodation in 2021 by I...
Comedian Spring Day used her platform of the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 to share her harrowing experience of being drawn into a fundamentalist Christian cult in Missouri at the age of 13. For the next 13 ...
New IRA chief Thomas Mellon had his car searched by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in the grounds of a Catholic church on Sunday. Mellon, who is on a 10-year MI5 terror watch-list, was ...
