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 ...

TOO few churches are addressing ethical concerns about the food system, says a survey from Green Christian, which urges every church to develop an ethical food policy. Green Christian’s survey of more ...

OUT of an interest in Western civilisation, I have been reading St Augustine’s The City of God, and the saint would have a hard time finding employment as a crisis counsellor today. He writes, of ...

The Rt Revd Stephen Platten writes: GORDON KNIGHTS, chief executive of Hymns Ancient & Modern from 1980 until 2004, was perhaps the most unsung hero of religious publishing. Gordon was a Suffolk lad, ...

HERITAGE groups have nominated a once-imposing 600-seater Victorian church for inclusion on a global at-risk list, and urged the diocese of Manchester not to let the building be demolished. Friends of ...

USE of the death penalty has increased dramatically in North Korea since the country closed its borders during the pandemic: at least 144 executions of at least 358 people were carried out, including ...

I view Trump as chemo. America has cancer. Trump is toxic, and I think he’s killing the cancer faster than he’s killing the rest of us ...

AS A teenager, I stood near our church organist as he played. I was mesmerised by the majestic sound, the fascinating sight of ivory stop-knobs flying in and out seemingly of their own accord, hands ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the Church of England must take action to tackle anti-Semitism, and that she “cannot imagine how frightening it must be” for Jewish parents to worry about ...

A VATICAN working group has urged Roman Catholics to reconsider their approach to homosexuality in a new report welcomed by LGBTQ+ campaigners. “Believers with same-sex attractions confirm how arduous ...

URGENT action “to tackle anti-Semitism and ensure all communities feel safe” was pledged on Wednesday in the King’s Speech, which set out the Government’s agenda for the next parliamentary year. The ...

JONATHAN FLETCHER, who, from 1982 to 2012, was the Minister of Emmanuel Proprietary Chapel, Ridgway, in the diocese of Southwark, was subject to an “examination of the facts” hearing at Kingston upon ...