Dr Ipgrave had answered that there was a “settled position” in the Church of England that “bread made with wheat and the ...

In recent weeks, some Synod members on social-media and other platforms had urged Archbishop Cottrell not to give the ...

A CALL to “resist the temptation to weaponise people and their circumstances for other purposes or campaigns” was issued by ...

“You have to do safeguarding with the church; you cannot do safeguarding to the church,” he said. He suggested that full ...

THE effects of President Donald Trump’s orders halting the United States’ refugee-assistance and overseas-aid programmes are already being felt, as charities lay off staff and slash support services.

CONSULTATION on the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury begins today. Members of the public are invited to propose candidates and comment on what the Church needs from the next Primate of ...

A FORMER Bishop of Swansea & Brecon has appeared at Swansea Crown Court, charged with sexual offences, the Church in Wales reports. The Rt Revd Anthony Pierce, 84, pleaded guilty to five counts of ...

16 February, Proper 2: Jeremiah 17.5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15.12-20; Luke 6.17-26 LUKE’s version of Jesus’s Beatitudes (or “blessings”) challenges the more famous version recorded in Matthew (5.1 ...

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” statistic that masks human suffering, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF’s ...

UKRAINIAN church representatives have voiced shock at the closure of foreign-aid programmes by the United States, announced on Monday as Russia pressed on with its three-year invasion. “This ...

THE challenge of meeting demands for transparency while protecting the privacy of individuals was aired during a webinar this week exploring recent events in the diocese of Liverpool. During the ...

SAFEGUARDING professionals across the Church of England have urged the General Synod’s members not to back a proposal to outsource their work to a new national body. In a letter sent on Wednesday and ...