THE words of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester during the Second World War, were invoked in the House of Lords on Friday.

Because the Bill is designated as one concerned primarily with economic issues, the Lords have no power to amend the ...

Tensions over a hotel housing asylum-seekers make it ‘difficult for the community to feel safe’ Archdeacon of Chelmsford says ...

The Revd Huw Thomas, Priest-in-Charge of St Michael's, Flixton, in Manchester diocese, told the Church Times that his son, Billy, and he “had the night of [their] lives” after a woman gave them her ...

INSTEAD of a system “focused on vengeance and punishment” — partly the result of media portrayals of crime — the Government ...

THE UK’s Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, David Smith MP, has set out a framework for tackling restrictions of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) and highlighted ten countries where the ...

A GAY man who raised a complaint about an attempted exorcism that sought to “rid him of his homosexual inclinations ” has ...

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