The Revd Huw Thomas, Priest-in-Charge of St Michael's, Flixton, in Manchester diocese, told the Church Times that his son, Billy, and he “had the night of [their] lives” after a woman gave them her ...

INSTEAD of a system “focused on vengeance and punishment” — partly the result of media portrayals of crime — the Government ...

THE UK’s Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, David Smith MP, has set out a framework for tackling restrictions of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) and highlighted ten countries where the ...

A GAY man who raised a complaint about an attempted exorcism that sought to “rid him of his homosexual inclinations ” has ...

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IT WAS another heatwave and a distinctly heady start to this year’s General Synod in York (11 to 15 July). Members gathered ...

Pope Leo expresses his ‘profound sadness’ after church is hit, and calls for ‘an immediate halt to the barbarism of the war’ ...

Dr Short is the first bishop of a non-metropolitan diocese to be elected and the first Evangelical Primate since 1982 ...

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