The topic was patronage in the Church of England — the right to nominate a priest to a vacant parish post. After listening to an hour-long speech, peers agreed to the Bishop’s request that a select ...

THE Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, has welcomed the Government’s “long overdue” move to protect LGBTQ+ people in England and Wales from physical and psychological abuse by proposing a legal ...

STRONG frustration” that a report on the seal of confession remains with the House of Bishops and has “effectively been paused for over a year” has been expressed by members of the Task and Finish ...

THE appointment of an executive principal with oversight over both Trinity College, Bristol, and St Mellitus College is “a constructive response to the realities facing the theological education ...

MEMORIES of seeing small numbers of people come to faith gradually, while serving on outer estates, were shared by the new Bishop of Ely, the Rt Revd Sarah Clark, this week. “Sometimes growth came but ...

THE ordinations season is coming round once again, and a new crop of deacons are about to be launched into parish life, along with those deaconed last year who are about to become priests. It is, ...

THE United Nations’ mid-year climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, have ended in deadlock. Developing countries warned that wealthy nations were failing to honour promises made to vulnerable ...

A FURTHER seven men have been ordained deacon by the Rt Revd Martin Morrison, a bishop in the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa (REACH SA), at the East London Tabernacle, a Baptist ...

BRITAIN is turning over Prime Ministers — six in ten years — at almost the precipitous rate at which Manchester United changes its managers: eight since the departure of the long-serving Sir Alex ...

THE occupation of the West Bank has left Palestinians “impoverished, desperate and powerless”, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop in Jerusalem, Dr Hosam Naoum, have said. In a joint ...