In its weighted poll of 2000 UK adults, conducted by Opinium Research in early December, CAP reports that one third (33 per ...

THE new Churches’ Forum for History held its inaugural meeting on Thursday of last week, in Faith House, Westminster.

Harassment of religious groups still on the rise, Pew reports ...

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THE “huge variation” in attendance trajectories between churches and dioceses suggests that growth is “hampered more by constraints on the supply of church than by falling demand”, a new report on the ...

In 2023, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York asked Professor Alexis Jay to develop proposals for a fully independent structure to provide scrutiny of safeguarding in the Church of England. Her ...

THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams is among the signatories of a faith leaders’ letter urging the Government to support the Climate and Nature Bill, which is backed by more than 200 MPs ...

AT LEAST 24 people are known to have died, and still more are missing, in the fires that continue to burn around Los Angeles. Winds are expected to pick up again and fan the flames in the coming days.

Isaiah 62.1-5; Psalm 36.5-10; 1 Corinthians 12.1-11; John 2.1-11 I COULD not sleep. Reading a novel would worsen my wakefulness. Instead, I decided that a scholarly article would have me dozing off in ...

BISHOPS should be free to criticise the Archbishops’ Council, or risk confirming suspicions of “the Church’s national leadership being a closed shop dedicated to self-preservation”, the Bishop of ...