THE Gaza ceasefire appeared to break down on Tuesday, amid accusations that both sides had violated the agreement. At least 104 people in Gaza were killed in Israeli air strikes on Tuesday evening, ...

IT IS no fun being short. Time and again, you are at some performance or event, but are seated behind someone blocking your view. There are no handy sycamore trees in a theatre. In a football stadium, ...

I HAD always thought that studying theology should make me more complex, and that, by the time I left theological college, I would have a big vocabulary that I could use to impress members of the ...

Deacons: Sachin Awale (St Edmund’s, Whalley Range, and St James with St Clement, Moss Side, OLM); Carole Barnet (St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich, OLM); Sheila Beattie (St Mary the Virgin, Bury; St ...

They are, Dr Black says, “just turning up out of the blue, in really quite unusual ways”. In some instances, people have arrived having had a dream. Others have arrived “randomly” at prayer and ...

AS WE approach the 30th anniversary of the admission of women to priest’s orders, I still find it a surprise and a delight that the Church has embraced women’s ministry. We now have significant ...

A NEW survey carried out in the United States suggests that non-believers think that Christians are hypocritical and judgemental — in stark contrast to Christians, who describe themselves as ...

SEVEN people were killed by Israeli drone-fire on the Anglican Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, after damage and disruption involving local “outlaws”. On Monday, the diocese of Jerusalem, ...

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CHRISTIANITY can be an olfactory faith. Low Church Protestantism might smell rather bland; but the further the worshipper moves towards the Catholic end of the spectrum, the more the nose is assaulted ...