LAMBETH PALACE said on Thursday that it had withdrawn an interfaith award given to a Muslim cleric by the Archbishop of Canterbury last week (News,18 September). Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi ...

BISHOPS have welcomed the announcement by the Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, that the UK will impose sweeping trade sanctions on Israel. On Tuesday, Mr Miliband said that Israeli “settler terrorists” ...

A NEW partnership between St Paul’s Cathedral and Fabric, a nightclub in London, is not a “rave in the nave” and has been agreed with extensive due diligence, the cathedral’s director of visitor ...

Proper 19: Genesis 50.15-21; Psalm 103.(1-7)8-13; Romans 14.1-12; Matthew 18.21-35 MATTHEW 18 collects teachings about Kingdom values, highlighting those that are the most valuable for building up the ...

The Rt Revd Alastair Redfern writes: BARRY ROGERSON is assured a key place in church history. On 12 March 1994, in Bristol Cathedral, he ordained the first women as priests in the Church of England.

I DID not expect a banana and a papaya plant to make me emotional. Inside one of Kew Gardens’ glasshouses, surrounded by plants gathered from around the world, I came across banana and papaya plants ...

AUGUST is, of course, a time when you can get anything, even Christianity, into the newspapers, and there have been some interesting pieces as the month came to an end. The New Statesman had a piece ...

IT’S been quiet. Eerily so. I think that has been, perhaps, the most disconcerting part of this summer of heat. Oxfordshire, this August, has been like Arizona. It has changed the look of the ...

A new initiative seeks to attract a fresh generation of ringers to keep this piece of national heritage, now under threat, alive, Ed Beavan reports ...

STUDENTS from Gordonstoun School have discovered what is thought to be the remains of a medieval Viking church on Swona, an uninhabited Scottish island. Students and staff took a ten-hour journey from ...

THE values of “trust, dignity, and mutual care” in public life were highlighted by the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, in the House of Lords on Tuesday. “We all — public officers and citizens ...

DR JAMES ORR, associate professor in the philosophy of religion at Cambridge University, has stepped down as head of policy for Reform UK, after a Channel 4 News investigation. On social media, he ...