TEN members of the clergy, including two bishops, could be subject to disciplinary proceedings in connection with the abuse ...

THE diocese of Portsmouth has challenged the process by which primary schools on the Isle of Wight have been selected for ...

Preaching tips, advice and inspiration, as featured in the Church Times.

Church of England’s stance on gluten-free communion bread clarified after media flurry Alister McGrath explores the quest for mutual understanding in an intolerant era ...

New UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief announced ...

A HEAVY agenda and intense debate characterised the General Synod sessions in London last week. Issues of trust and power were to the fore. On the Tuesday, the Synod stopped short of transferring all ...

Staff writer Francis Martin spent all of last week in the press gallery of Church House, Westminster, reporting on the latest meeting of the General Synod. He reports back to the editor, Sarah Meyrick ...

CHRISTIANS in Iraqi Kurdistan are “not just twiddling their thumbs” but “getting on and building things”, the Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines, has said. Bishop Baines was speaking shortly ...

THE spa city of Karlovy Vary, in the Czech Republic, traditionally popular with Russian visitors, is famous for its thermal springs and colonnades. Recently, however, it has gained increasing ...

THE Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, allowed herself to be vulnerable while addressing the General Synod last week. It took courage. Her moment of vulnerability was also a call to all ...

AN £80,000 payout to Tearfund to protect smallholders during a drought in Malawi will help to prevent a hunger crisis, thanks to a new kind of insurance policy, the charity says. Parametric insurance ...

Ignatius Was Green: Ecological dimensions of the spiritual exercises by Margaret Scott (Paulist Press, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-0-8091-5716-7). “Ignatius Was Green breaks new ground in Ignatian ...