WHEN asked about the possibility of divorce, Jesus says that husband and wife are no longer two, but one flesh. It is a striking image, which then comes with a warning: “What therefore God hath joined ...

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 ...

The Rt Revd Bob Evens writes: JOHN MAYBURY grew up within the story of God’s love made visible by those who loved him. He was born in the Solomon Islands, one of four sons of medical-missionary ...

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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 ...

IN NOVEMBER 2022, David Lammy stood at the pulpit in St Martin-in-the-Fields, in central London, and spoke explicitly about how Jesus Christ was the inspiration for his politics as well as his ...

THE churchwardens of the Grade II listed St Peter’s, Little Budworth, have succeeded in persuading the Consistory Court of the diocese of Chester to grant a faculty permitting the sale by auction of a ...

THE Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, in Iraq, Mar Bashar Warda, has denied allegations made in a US lawsuit that he was complicit in the kidnapping and torture of an Iraqi-US businesswoman, Sara ...

THE Bishop of Guildford, the Rt Revd Andrew Watson, has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer, he announced in a letter to his diocese on Tuesday. Stomach pain, an aversion to eating and consequent ...

CHURCHGOING among young people, particularly men, in England and Wales is growing, but not within the Church of England, a new report from the Bible Society suggests. The report, The Quiet Revival, ...

THE man who claims to have the highest IQ in the world has taken to the social-media platform X to profess his Christian faith in a post that has gone viral. Dr YoungHoon Kim, from South Korea, claims ...

WHEN the next academic year begins in theological colleges this autumn, some of the new students will be bringing a lifetime of experience inside and outside the Church to their theological studies.