THIRTY years after the Dunblane tragedy, when 16 children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, were killed in a school shooting, the Minister of Dunblane Cathedral, the Revd Colin Renwick, said that people ...

THE US-Israeli strikes on Iran constitute “an operation aimed at the liberation of the Iranian people”, a group of Iranian Christians has told the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani. In a ...

The growth in Bible sales has been very much against the tide of the trade non-fiction market which has been in decline for several years ...

FORD. The Revd Anthony Ford, Priest-in-Charge of St Mark’s, Barrow-in-Furness (Carlisle). GLADSTONE. The Revd Nicole Gladstone, NS Assistant Curate of All Saints’, Pavement, with St Crux and St ...

A VATICAN observer and human-rights experts have warned of growing threats to Christians worldwide, against the background of continued demands for the European Union to appoint a Christian-rights ...

A CLERGY couple from Dorset, the Revd Richard and Louise White, have found themselves stranded in Dubai. They landed there for a week’s holiday to visit their daughter, only hours before the airport ...

During the five-year period studied, several serious-incident reports were sent to the Charity Commission relating to Bangor Cathedral ...

IT IS All Saints’ Day, a damp and misty November morning that inclines itself to reflection and remembrance. A band of pilgrims, we turn up with our rucksacks at St John the Baptist, Tideswell, in ...

OUTSIDE York Minster on a sunny Monday morning in March, visitors from around the UK and as far away as the United States mill around, gazing up at the windows and stonework. They look blank, and ...

MEDIAN all-age weekly attendance at a Church of England church in 2024 was 26, down from 34.5 in 2019, Statistics for Mission reported (News, 31 October 2025). This means that half or more of our ...

I REMEMBER the rush of excitement when I first heard of The Silmarillion, and then the thrill when it was published, in 1977, four years after Tolkien’s death. At last, we had the creation story of ...

YOU would not know it from the Common Worship calendar, but 17 March is the feast day of St Gertrude of Nivelles, the daughter of a Frankish nobleman. Gertrude rejected several marriage proposals to ...