IT WAS another heatwave and a distinctly heady start to this year’s General Synod in York (11 to 15 July). Members gathered ...

Pope Leo expresses his ‘profound sadness’ after church is hit, and calls for ‘an immediate halt to the barbarism of the war’ ...

Dr Short is the first bishop of a non-metropolitan diocese to be elected and the first Evangelical Primate since 1982 ...

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Dr Naoum decried the killing of hundreds of Palestinians who had been waiting to receive aid in Gaza in recent weeks ( News, ...

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IN LUKE 11.1-13, Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray. Yet, even before they ask him to teach them, he has already begun ...

HAVING the head of St Thomas More head deteriorating in a vault is not good enough for the multitudes worldwide who venerate him. This is the conclusion of the PCC of St Dunstan’s, Canterbury, in a ...