WANTING to describe the most memorable wedding I have ever taken has proved impossible. More than any other church service, weddings seem to attract incident — whether because emotions run so high or ...

A VICAR and an ordinand in Truro diocese have completed the equivalent — in distance — of running up Mount Everest from sea level to its summit after finishing four uphill marathons in four days to ...

THE Consistory Court of the diocese of Lincoln has refused to grant a faculty to permit cremated remains to be interred in a grave space that would otherwise be used for the burial of bodily remains, ...

SAFEGUARDING in the Church of England could be broadened to include anyone harmed or at risk of harm in a church context, after the C of E’s National Safeguarding Team (NST) launched a consultation.

THE FIFA World Cup, which is due to begin on Thursday, has the potential to draw communities together in surprising ways, the Archbishop of York has written. In The Yorkshire Post on Wednesday, ...

AFTER the “violent arrest and detention” of another young Palestinian Christian by the Israeli authorities in the West Bank, four diocesan bishops have written that “administrative detention is 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 ...

Our great church organs are feats of craftsmanship and engineering. Victoria Johnson considers the ‘king of instruments’ and its contribution to worship Find more jobs ...

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 ...

THE documentary The Story of Everything was released by Fathom Entertainment at the end of April. It is the latest contribution from a group of scientists who have raised several serious challenges to ...

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 ...

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 ...