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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

All Shall Be Well: Visions of salvation with Julian of Norwich by Emma Pennington (BRF, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-1-80039-206-9). “Through revelations ten to sixteen of her Revelations of Divine Love, ...

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 ...

THE next steps in Living in Love and Faith (LLF) require “serious attention to issues of power, trust, honesty, and transparency”, the lead bishop on LLF, the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn ...

USING sport for evangelism is to be the focus of a debate at the General Synod next month, when members will be invited to consider a three-year project piloting sports ministry. The National Sport ...