Mr Fletcher was a leader at the Iwerne camps at which John Smyth abused at least 30 young men and boys. Mr Fletcher was ...

ALLEGATIONS made last week that members of the Liverpool Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) had been “bullied” into ...

Episcopal Migration Ministries, an arm of the Episcopal Church in the US, which had a contract with the US government to help ...

UKRAINIAN church representatives have voiced shock at the closure of foreign-aid programmes by the United States, announced ...

A COALITION of 20 charities is lobbying the Government to introduce a debt-cancellation scheme for lower-income countries in the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. In a letter published this week, ...

A BOWL made from a churchyard yew tree by a local woodturner has been presented to Pope Francis by the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, during his ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome earlier ...

“WORDS of introduction or welcome may be said.” This is the permissive rubric that follows “The Greeting”, in the Common Worship order for holy communion. In a typical congregational booklet, this ...

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AN ADVOCATE for vulnerable women, Lianne Kirkman, is to spend ten nights in a row sleeping rough, to highlight issues of women’s safety and to raise money for a hub where women can meet, have access ...

THE part played by churches and faith groups in “social prescribing” — connecting people to community-based activities to benefit their well-being — presents a possible pathway for improving health ...

9 February, Proper 1: Isaiah 6.1-8 (9-end); Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15.1-11; Luke 5.1-11 IN THIS Gospel, Simon responds to Jesus as he does, not because of a realisation at that moment (15.8), but ...

BAILEY. The Revd Christine Bailey, OLM of Christ Church, Davyhulme, and Urmston (Manchester). CUSHING. The Revd Barbara Cushing, NS Assistant Curate (Assistant Priest) of Anston (Sheffield). DELAFIELD ...