CHRISTIANS living out their faith through social action are now at risk in the United States, the Presiding Bishop, Dr Sean Rowe, has written in a pastoral letter to the Episcopal Church. He expects ...

MOST reflections on the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (also called Candlemas) focus on Simeon and Anna. Through this baby — among all the babies who must have undergone the same rituals — first ...

THE Church Commissioners have worked with other investors to gather more information about the human-rights records of other companies, their latest stewardship report says. The Commissioners, ...

THE Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, was “clearly correct” in taking no further action against the Revd Tim Hastie-Smith concerning the handling of reports about John Smyth’s abusive behaviour ...

JOHN SMYTH’s abuse was properly referred to the police by the Church of England in 2013, retired senior police officers have told the Church Times. Their comments challenge the Makin review’s ...

ALMOST 2000 parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC) have transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine since 2019, when the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, recognised ...

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 ...

A PRIEST formerly in the C of E, who used “arguably highly insensitive” terms when speaking about the Church’s first transgender archdeacon, has no case to answer, the President of Tribunals has ruled ...

ADVOCATES of “full inclusion” of LGBTQ+ people in the Church have reacted with dismay to the House of Bishops’ decision that stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples and the ...

SISTER Catherine Wybourne, the Benedictine nun better known to her admirers as the “digital nun” (Features, 26 August 2011), died on Thursday of last week, aged 67. The news was announced to her ...

The Iona Community team write: WHEN Dr Graham Maule passed from life to greater life on 29 December, aged 61, the world became a more silent place. He loved music, particularly singing, and — as an ...