ALTHOUGH the Christian population of Iraq has declined dramatically this century, to below one per cent of the population, five of the 26-member national football squad that qualified for the ...

A NEW resource to help churches to welcome and support migrants, refugees, and displaced people has been launched by the Anglican Alliance. The pack, People on the Move, has been released in ...

A NEW song telling the story of Mary Ann (“Polly”) Nichols, a victim of Jack the Ripper, was performed this month in the very place where she was married in 1864, St Bride’s, Fleet Street. The song, ...

IN A “polarised” and “divided” world, “the Church’s mission to make known its unity feels ever more urgent and important”, the Bishop of in Europe, Dr Robert Innes, has said. He was speaking last week ...

AS CHRISTIANS “shout with joy that Christ is risen”, they should “pray and call with renewed urgency for an end to the violence and destruction in the Middle East”, the Archbishop of Canterbury said ...

EVANGELICALS broadly feel free to live out their faith, but almost half believe that it has been harder to practise it publicly in the UK in the past five years, a survey from the Evangelical Alliance ...

6 Works out from legendary Greek figure earth’s rhythmic path? (5) 7 End’s nothing great (5) 8 Abbreviated prophetic work before church performance (5) 10 Court jester’s outside with tambur endlessly ...

First of all, a caveat. You might think this is about you. It isn’t. It is about the Universal Churchwarden/Steward/Elder/General Figure of Elected Authority in the ...

PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow, praising the elite Russian Guard for its “glorious accomplishments” during the war against Ukraine, has reiterated his Church’s support for President Putin’s “most daring ...

PIPE organs in Britain face extinction by 2070 unless their rapid decline is arrested, new research from the organ charity Pipe Up for Pipe Organs concludes. The report Silencing the King? The future ...

C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King; and “The Dream of the Rood” (anonymous) THE events of Good Friday are so seminal, so foundational for a ...

THERE are two approaches to thinking about the meaning of Jesus’s death. One focuses on the effect of his death on the individual believer. The other asks what has been achieved by that death, even ...