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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The Churches’ Legislation Advisory Service told the Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee’s “Protecting Built Heritage” inquiry that thousands of historic places of worship depended on volunteers: ...

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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 ...

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.

A CIBORIUM made from potato-starch plastic by using a 3D printer is proving a success in a Gloucester parish. “It does the job perfectly,” says the honorary assistant priest of St James’s, Quedgeley, ...

IN 1978, the annual BBC Reith Lectures were delivered by the Revd Dr Edward Norman, a lecturer in History at Cambridge University and a distinguished church historian. He took as his theme ...

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 ...