Madeleine Davies investigates the recent fervour behind the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ movement and the response of the Church of England ...

The Revd John Dunnett resigned over the decision to use prayers of blessing for same-sex couples at cathedral services ...

THE harassment of religious groups, either by government or other groups, is at its most widespread since records began, the latest study by the Pew Research Center says. Pew, which is based in the ...

LATVIA has become the first European country to confer official national status on a pagan religion, allowing its ministers to officiate at weddings, teach in schools, and serve as army and hospital ...

THE Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has been castigated by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) for failing to show compassion towards victims or take ...

THE Russian Supreme Court has banned the “International Satanism movement” after requests that it do so were officially brought forward by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of ...

PLANS to turn a disused church into a mosque have been blocked by the Church Commissioners. While these proposals never materialised, the restrictive covenant put in place — prohibiting the use of the ...

Bishop Arora has been involved in the launch of a poster campaign, which uses artwork by Andrew Gadd depicting the nativity in a bus shelter A WARNING this week from the Bishop of Kirkstall, the Rt ...

CHRISTIANITY can be an olfactory faith. Low Church Protestantism might smell rather bland; but the further the worshipper moves towards the Catholic end of the spectrum, the more the nose is assaulted ...

THE day began dull and damp. The streets of Leicester were washed with rain, and gusts of wind whipped vestments and caused hats to be firmly clasped to the head. But the weather proved to match the ...

WHEN the diocese of Liverpool put its independent evaluation of the Transforming Wigan (TW) project in the public domain, it bucked a trend (News, 29 September 2023). Few evaluations of projects ...

‘I pray most often for a perfect letter G. It used to be S, but I got better at them’ I was thrilled when I first experienced making letters with a pen and red ink, when I was a young child. With the ...