On the podcast this week, James Macintyre talks about his new book, Gordon Brown: Power with purpose, which provides a definitive portrait of the former Prime Minister and Chancellor. The conversation ...

The Revd John Dunnett resigned over the decision to use prayers of blessing for same-sex couples at cathedral services ...

THE harassment of religious groups, either by government or other groups, is at its most widespread since records began, the latest study by the Pew Research Center says. Pew, which is based in the ...

IN THE story of Christ’s presentation in the Temple, the words that always catch my breath are Simeon’s to Mary: “And a sword will pierce your own soul, too.” At Candlemas this year, a preacher ...

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 ...

LATVIA has become the first European country to confer official national status on a pagan religion, allowing its ministers to officiate at weddings, teach in schools, and serve as army and hospital ...

PROPOSALS to ban public prayer in Quebec would be a violation of human rights, threatening Christian festivals and the many acts of public blessing carried out each year, the Bishop of Quebec, the Rt ...

THE Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has been castigated by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) for failing to show compassion towards victims or take ...

THE Russian Supreme Court has banned the “International Satanism movement” after requests that it do so were officially brought forward by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of ...

PLANS to turn a disused church into a mosque have been blocked by the Church Commissioners. While these proposals never materialised, the restrictive covenant put in place — prohibiting the use of the ...

ORDINAND numbers have fallen by 38 per cent since 2020, the General Synod was told this week. Diocesan and course and college staff, when asked to name possible factors behind the decline, had ...

A NEW model for quasi-independent safeguarding is on the General Synod’s agenda next month, as are urban poverty and the parliamentary ping-pong about the Clergy Conduct Measure. Much of the debate in ...