AN EDUCATION charity set up by a group of British students 40 years ago in Lesotho has enabled more than 1500 students to improve their prospects in life. Rebecca Chandler Wilde, one of the students ...

THE theological response of the Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission (FAOC) to the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals was discussed by the House of Bishops when it met in York from Tuesday to Thursday.

IT IS much easier to condemn something if we think that we are not part of it. When it comes to anti-Semitism, churches have historically been part of the problem. Do we have the courage to admit that ...

I FIRST came across Andy Burnham in 2009 at Anfield, where he was addressing Liverpool fans on the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. He was booed for two minutes solid as he was trying to ...

CATHEDRAL deans are to meet MPs next month to discuss the financial sustainability of cathedrals in light of the Theos report, it was announced at the National Cathedrals Conference on Tuesday. Sir ...

BOTH the Church’s funding bodies and the Government should ramp up investment in cathedrals, where financial pressures are resulting in commercial bookings that risk “crowding out the sense of ...

CLERGY in Ireland for whom ill health prevents their continuing in ministry will have to apply to the Clergy Permanent Health Insurance policy (Clergy PHI) if they are to receive a stipend and reside ...

THE inspiration for East Meets West, a group that brings together women of different ethnicities and faiths in Lancashire, occurred in a car park. Liz Bagley noticed that, in the wake of the 9/11 ...

PENTECOST as a festival made very little impact on me as a child. I could be found crouched between the pews at the back of the small country church, my Sunday-school workbook resting on a damp ...

I LIKE a moon mission as much as the next man, but even I thought the coverage of Artemis’s recent lunar trip was a bit excessive (Comment, 10 April; News, 17 April). Don’t misunderstand me. I am in ...