The former Archbishop of Canterbury says the Anglican Church can't sustain its position on homosexuality. Dr Rowan Williams has been speaking ahead of the release of an updated version of his biograp...
A former Archbishop of Canterbury has said the Church of England is "one generation away from extinction". Lord Carey of Clifton, who was archbishop from 1991 to 2002, was speaking after a NatCen Soc...
The Scottish Episcopal Church's General Synod has taken the first steps towards allowing gay marriage in a move likely to anger other members of the worldwide A At a meeting on Friday morning five of...
The number of couples choosing to get married in an Anglican church in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level ever. New figures from the Office for National Statistics show they hosted 49,7...
The Anglican Communion has called for a "season of repentance and renewal" after people in several countries have become consecrated as Anglican bishops and sta At a press conference for the Communio...
The secretary general of the Anglican Communion has rejected accusations that a "major error" was made when the Church of England appointed a bishop it knew was Bishop of Grantham Nicholas Chamberlai...
Holy Communion has been conducted in Farsi within the Church of England for the first time, amid a growing number of Iranians joining the country's Anglican con Approximately 450 people attended a se...
An Anglican minister and personal friend of Pope Francis has died in a motorcycle accident. Father Tony Palmer - who led the Order of the Ark Community - passed away after 10 hours of treatment.He le...
The Church of England's discussions on sexuality are sometimes "painful", the Secretary General of the General Synod has said. William Nye said the so called "shared conversations" on the treatment o...
A former Church of England priest has handed himself in to authorities in India to face claims he abused a boy there in 2011. Revd Jonathan Robinson, 73, is accused of abusing the 15-year-old boy in ...
Plans to bring Church of England and Catholic schools on the Isle of Wight together into one, island-wide, multi-academy trust have moved a step closer. The churches already jointly run two sc...
The violent killing of Ann Maguire in April shook the nation - it was the murder of a woman described as the 'rock' at the centre of her family. She was a dedicated and committed Catholic who, as wel...
A national poll to find the advent calendar furthest from the Christmas story has been won by Ann Summers. The lingerie and adult toy retailer, whose version features chocolate in body part shapes, s...
The papal honour was given to her by Pope Benedict XVI for her services to politics and public life. Former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe has become a Dame of the Order of St Gregory. The papal honour...
Former MP Ann Widdecombe has criticised the idea that God could be female, after a bishop said calling God 'He' puts people off church. Widdecombe, who is a Catholic, was asked by Piers Morgan on ITV...
Christian and former prisons minister Ann Widdecombe will be among celebrities going sugar-free for the second series of ITV's Sugar Free Farm. The four-part series will see the celebrities live and ...
The Catholic former MP is speaking out as Mick and Mairead Philpott are at Nottingham Crown Court for their sentencing hearing. The man found guilty of killing his six children has been branded 'incr...
Former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe says yesterday's by-election win for UKIP isn't a big deal. The Catholic writer and broadcaster has been speaking after Mark Reckless, who defected from the Conservative...
The police who investigated a Catholic journalist accused of calling a transgender woman a man on social media should face a probe themselves, Ann Widdecombe ha In her regular newspaper column, the o...
Questions are now being asked as to why taxpayers should fund the lifestyles of people like Mick and Mairead Philpotts. Catholic former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe has told Premier the welfare state doesn...
