AN INVESTIGATION into why the public have lost confidence in the Church of England is required, the General Synod heard on Monday afternoon. The Rector of St Bartholomew’s, Smit ...

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 ...

GOD did not make a mistake when he made us all,” the Bishop of Dover (Canterbury), the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, said on Monday during a General Synod debate on the compatibility of same-sex ...

THE General Synod, after hours of impassioned debate and procedural delays, has voted to “hear” a document that describes Israel as a “colonial enterprise” that inflicted a “genocidal war on Gaza”. A ...

OUR “democracy is under threat today,” the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, has said. Unless this threat is addressed, “the temptation will be to look for even more radical solutions, and ...

THERE is a curious historical naïvety in the report Trust and Trustworthiness in the Church of England, of which the General Synod is invited to take note (News, Leader Comment, 3 July). The ...

The No Place Like Home competition encourages youngpeople to reflect on the experience of displacement, saysAmelia Braddick ...

ANN WIDDECOMBE, the former Conservative minister turned Reform UK campaigner, who was received into the Roman Catholic Church after the ordination of women in the Church of England, has died, aged 78.

THE Church Commissioners’ argument that fiduciary duties prevent their backing the international goal of protecting 30 per cent of land and sea for nature by 2030 has been challenged by a legal ...

MORE than one in six young people — approximately 1.2 million — “significantly struggle” with their mental health, a new report commissioned by the Children’s Society says. The report, Prevention That ...