THE campaigning group Save the Parish (STP) has launched its manifesto for the elections to the next General Synod. It is ...

SIGNIFICANT progress in church safeguarding is being undermined by resistance from senior officers, INEQE, the company auditing safeguarding in every diocese and cathedral, has said. INEQE said in its ...

Proper 12: 1 Kings 3.5-12; Psalm 119.129-136; Romans 8.26-39; Matthew 13.31-33, 44-52 ONE characteristic that makes things valuable is scarcity. When supply is abundant, prices drop. When supply drops ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative minister turned Reform UK campaigner, after her death last week, aged 78. A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, ...

THE “inability” of the National Safeguarding Team’s (NST) staff to say that they believed a survivor’s account of rapes was “one of the most damaging” aspects of its handling of her case, an ...

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CLERGY who are disqualified from driving as a result of a series of minor driving and highway offences will have to report the fact to their bishop, under the new Clergy Conduct Measure Rules. The ...

“MANY in the Church have been wounded,” and, to heal, trust must be nurtured, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in her sermon at York Minster on Sunday, midway through the meeting of General Synod.

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A CIBORIUM made from potato-starch plastic by using a 3D printer is proving a success in a Gloucester parish. “It does the job perfectly,” says the honorary assistant priest of St James’s, Quedgeley, ...

ALLEN. The Revd Christopher Allen, Vicar of Shipley (Chichester): 23 August. ALLEN. The Revd Peter Allen, Chaplain of Stansted Airport, remaining Priest-in-Charge of Newport with Widdington, Quendon ...