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 ...

IN THE hill districts of the Indian state of Manipur, church bells were tolled in mourning this week. The killing of three Baptist pastors returning from a peace conference has shaken Christian ...

THE first Sikh and Punjabi queen to live in Britain, Maharani Jind Kaur, died at Abingdon House, Kensington, in 1863, at the age of 46. She was the youngest wife of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Lion ...

A HANDWRITTEN note in the Chapter service book of St Davids Cathedral, from 20 April 1966, reveals a moment of unexpected ecclesiastical and social history. The organist and music director, Peter ...

REFORM UK on Calderdale Council, in West Yorkshire, in sweeping changes after winning 34 of the 54 seats, has removed the Vicar of Halifax Minster, Canon Hilary Barber, as the longstanding chair of ...

THE Covid-19 pandemic has had a “long-term adverse impact” on attendance at religious services in Britain, the political scientist Sir John Curtice said this week. Sir John is a senior fellow at the ...

“BE TO the flock of Christ a shepherd, not a wolf; feed them, devour them not. . .” That charge comes from the Prayer Book’s order for the consecration of a bishop. “Remember always with thanksgiving ...

THE microwave and I have been itinerant for the past seven months around the house where I have lived for the past 50 years. We are renovating, reconfiguring, and extending it, using the same builders ...

POVERTY in the UK is down by three per cent since 1996, but the number in “very deep poverty” has risen by 14 per cent, new research from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. The charity’s ...

THE Dean of St George’s College, Jerusalem, the Very Revd Canon Richard Sewell, has described the joy of welcoming the Palestinian Layan Nasir, back home in the occupied West Bank, after her third ...