The signatories — which include at least one member of safeguarding staff from 90 per cent of dioceses — write that they are ...

In response to the Makin report, Dr Makgoba commissioned an independent panel to review, at speed, whether he and his diocese ...

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...