THREE Christian MPs ranging across the political spectrum have praised the 18th- century abolitionist and social reformer William Wilberforce for putting his religious conviction above political ...

A RENOWNED LGBTQ+ choir is to give its first performance in a cathedral on Saturday in a concert held to mark the start of Pride month. The Fourth Choir, which has performed in the BBC Proms, the ...

IN AN unusually personal speech, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, has described her journey of miscarriages and IVF treatment before having three children, who, she said, were “a ...

IN A crowded church compound that has been converted into a displacement shelter in Chin state, western Myanmar, 19-year-old Esther quietly washes and folds a bloodstained cloth behind a plastic sheet ...

BEREAVED families were given three weeks to remove the ornaments that they had placed within a garden of remembrance, after a diocesan Chancellor ruled that these items did not comply with churchyard ...

THE Archdeacon of the East Riding, the Ven. Andrew Broom, is to retire on 1 September. His farewell service will be in Beverley Minster on 30 June. Archdeacon Broom, who was previously in the diocese ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP “has unleashed something he cannot control” in Iran, where “the prospect of a negotiated long-term ceasefire appears to be fading,” the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, ...

MURRAY GRANT who died on 30 April, was born in Bristol in 1936. He had an uneasy relationship with his father and, at the age of 16, joined the merchant navy. From 1955 to 1962, he was a steward on ...

I THOUGHT of my dad as a bit of a Jedi when I was little. He wore a long black cloak with a lion’s-head clasp, and he was up at six every morning, ringing the single, repeating bell for morning prayer ...

THE remains of 66 people whose bones date back to medieval times have been reburied at Holy Trinity, Kendal. Uncovered beneath the church’s curtilage wall during the construction of the Kendal Flood ...

FIT for Mission was launched against a backdrop of sustained decline in the Church’s poorest diocese: a 65-per-cent fall in church attendance in the past 30 years, and a 38-per-cent reduction in ...