South East Cudham and Downe are rural villages on the edge of the London Borough of Bromley. The warm and friendly congregations of these two communities are looking forward to welcoming an Interim ...

I WENT to the Vatican last week for the launch of the new papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, the first social teaching document of Leo’s papacy (News, 29 May). As neither a cardinal nor, even, a ...

A UKRAINIAN government official has called for the Russian Orthodox Church to be expelled from the World Council of Churches (WCC) as Ukraine’s religious leaders once again demanded tougher sanctions ...

As hundreds of thousands of Arsenal fans hit the streets to demonstrate their love for their club, we saw how the communal sharing of the whole spectrum of emotions — joy, pain, and disappointment ...

BEREAVED families were given three weeks to remove the ornaments that they had placed within a garden of remembrance, after a diocesan Chancellor ruled that these items did not comply with churchyard ...

A RENOWNED LGBTQ+ choir is to give its first performance in a cathedral on Saturday in a concert held to mark the start of Pride month. The Fourth Choir, which has performed in the BBC Proms, the ...

SEARCH the 1504 pages of the latest Mandelson papers for any reference to ethics or morality and you’ll be largely disappointed. There are a few mentions of the Cabinet Office’s Director of Propriety ...

THE son of an Anglican bishop is believed to be the only Christian pastor in Tawila, once a small market town in North Darfur and now hosting more refugees than most European capitals. The Revd ...

THE Archdeacon of the East Riding, the Ven. Andrew Broom, is to retire on 1 September. His farewell service will be in Beverley Minster on 30 June. Archdeacon Broom, who was previously in the diocese ...

IN A crowded church compound that has been converted into a displacement shelter in Chin state, western Myanmar, 19-year-old Esther quietly washes and folds a bloodstained cloth behind a plastic sheet ...

A NEW charity which aims to install recycled organs in schools to encourage young people to learn to play has already attracted 13 pupils at one. The charity, Organs for Schools, founded by Keith ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP “has unleashed something he cannot control” in Iran, where “the prospect of a negotiated long-term ceasefire appears to be fading,” the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, ...