THE Archbishop of Canterbury has described as “almost beyond words” what he and the ACC witnessed on a day’s visit to the Cape Coast Castle Museum, in Ghana, devoted to the Gold Coast slave trade. It ...

FORD. The Revd Anthony Ford, Priest-in-Charge of St Mark’s, Barrow-in-Furness (Carlisle). GLADSTONE. The Revd Nicole Gladstone, NS Assistant Curate of All Saints’, Pavement, with St Crux and St ...

THIRTY years after the Dunblane tragedy, when 16 children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, were killed in a school shooting, the Minister of Dunblane Cathedral, the Revd Colin Renwick, said that people ...

IT IS All Saints’ Day, a damp and misty November morning that inclines itself to reflection and remembrance. A band of pilgrims, we turn up with our rucksacks at St John the Baptist, Tideswell, in ...

OUTSIDE York Minster on a sunny Monday morning in March, visitors from around the UK and as far away as the United States mill around, gazing up at the windows and stonework. They look blank, and ...

A VATICAN observer and human-rights experts have warned of growing threats to Christians worldwide, against the background of continued demands for the European Union to appoint a Christian-rights ...

I REMEMBER the rush of excitement when I first heard of The Silmarillion, and then the thrill when it was published, in 1977, four years after Tolkien’s death. At last, we had the creation story of ...

The growth in Bible sales has been very much against the tide of the trade non-fiction market which has been in decline for several years ...

8 Element angry in US city place with a new layout for a church (5,5,4) ...

THE US-Israeli strikes on Iran constitute “an operation aimed at the liberation of the Iranian people”, a group of Iranian Christians has told the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani. In a ...

THE Pope has urged young people to open their hearts to “new horizons and cultures”, as hundreds of thousands have converged on Portugal for the Roman Catholic Church’s World Youth Day festival. In an ...