The 2800-word text says that a “year of forgiveness and freedom” was declared every half-century by ancient Jewish ...

The UN Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 was launched in Geneva on 4 December. It finds that 305.1 million people are in need ...

The Traveller, Sammy Cooper, sought a faculty for the memorial over the grave of his father in the churchyard of the Grade II ...

Quoting from “Once in Royal David’s City”, he spoke of God’s “redeeming love”. “That is the heart of the nativity story and ...

THE youth homelessness charity DePaul UK has described as “heart-warming” the reunion of one of its Nightstop service users ...

Bishops across the Church of England have released Christmas messages, of which several refer to conflict in the world. The ...

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

We continue our series of Advent reflections from Richard Harries’s new book ...

A PRIEST accused of child sexual abuse, who had paid a settlement to one of his alleged victims, was reappointed twice as an ...

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A RETIRED priest, Timothy Biles, in the diocese of Salisbury, has been jailed for six years after being found guilty of ...

ALL safeguarding teams, including diocesan and national staff, could transfer to an external nationwide organisation if General Synod members vote in favour of such a model in February, a new paper ...