LAMBETH PALACE said on Thursday that it had withdrawn an interfaith award given to a Muslim cleric by the Archbishop of Canterbury last week (News,18 September). Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi ...

RABBI Jeremy Gordon of the New London Synagogue has personally witnessed and experienced settler violence in the occupied West Bank. He was one of a group of British rabbis who were stoned by Jewish ...

THE future of Syria’s Christian communities was the focus of two international conferences last week, in Brussels and Rome, as religious and political leaders called for an inclusive political ...

IT IS 60 years since Jackie Pullinger first arrived in Hong Kong. A middle-class English girl who decided in childhood to be a missionary, she boarded a “slow boat to China” in 1966, then in her early ...

CANON David Winter, who died on 23 August, was a prolific Christian writer, editor, radio producer, senior BBC manager, Reader, and, after he left broadcasting, parish priest. Cheerful and modest to ...

STREAMING was supposed to scatter people across an ocean of endless choice, each inhabiting their own carefully curated island. Instead, people keep dropping anchor in the same places, drawn together ...

EVANGELICALS make up almost two-thirds of the “practising Christians” in the UK, a new report from the Evangelical Alliance suggests. The CEO of the charity, Gavin Calver, said that the poll ...

Proper 20: Jonah 3.10-4.11; Psalm 145.1-8; Philippians 1.21-30; Matthew 20.1-16 HERE is a puzzle: is this Gospel the parable of the workers in the vineyard, or the parable of the generous employer? A ...

THE baptism of 170 people in the sea at Bigbury-on-Sea, in Devon (right), made Saturday “an extraordinary day”, its organiser, Merlin Kraft, said, after people travelled from all over the UK for the ...

A HISTORIC Long Island church, which the diocese planned to demolish only three years ago, has been renovated and rededicated for ministry to farm workers and Spanish-speaking communities. The former ...

IN HIS first public comments for months, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Stephen Lake, has stressed that he has “co-operated fully” with investigations into him by the Church. He said that he ...