A YOUNG mum came to see me last week to enquire about the church, and ask about what we believed and what we expected of her.

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SUNDAY marked the start of the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the first group of hostages under the agreement that was finally reached on Friday. Its fate had hung in the balance until the ...

DIVINE CHOCOLATE is not selling Easter eggs this year. The decision is expected to mean that the demand for Fairtrade chocolate eggs will outstrip the supply.

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UNDER-25s who claim Universal Credit as care-leavers are disadvantaged by the law, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, said in the House of Lords last week. He argued for an increase in their ...

THE Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, was in Jerusalem last week when the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal was agreed. On Sunday, she told the Church Times that the reception of the deal among ...

THE “reset” of safeguarding in the Church of England must have mandatory reporting at its heart, the Bishop of London told the House of Lords last Friday.

St Magnus Way, on Orkney Mainland, is dedicated to Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney — an influential trading and military outpost of the Norse (Scandinavian) kingdom at the end of the 11th century.

The religious make-up of the Senate and House of Representatives is 87 per cent Christian, which is down one percentage point on the previous House membership, Pew Research has found. Their study ...

THIS week’s column is about the online media that have largely replaced the press, and even TV, as the means through which people understand their societies. It is largely inspired by Henry Farrell, a ...

THE first new parish in the diocese of Guildford for 25 years has been established at the site of the former Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. The former garrison church, St Barbara’s, built as a tin ...