IT WAS a Sunday afternoon when my phone rang. “I’m going to be baptised in the Anglican Church next month,” the voice said, “and I wondered if you could be my godfather.” It took a while before I ...

COME, thou long expected hymn book. . . Well, it has come at last. After years of waiting, groaning disappointment, and rekindled expectation, The Revised English Hymnal was finally launched last week ...

NEW investment criteria of the Church Commissioners in relation to human-rights abuses and social inequality are set out in a report that commits the Commissioners to holding companies to account on ...

Angela Tilby: More could be done to support parish ministry ...

THE Church of England faces extinction within 40 years because the faith it proclaims is not “contagious” enough, a new study reports. The study was compiled by Dr John Hayward, a mathematician at 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 “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”, the long-awaited Makin review has concluded.

CHURCHGOING among young people, particularly men, in England and Wales is growing, but not within the Church of England, a new report from the Bible Society suggests. The report, The Quiet Revival, ...

THE Christian musician Matt Redman has said that he experienced “harmful behaviours” from Canon Mike Pilavachi, the founder of Soul Survivor. Mr Redman was a teenager when he met Canon Pilavachi, and ...

RUSSIAN Orthodox clergy have defended Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Budapest and Hungary, after he was accused of sexual misconduct and a hedonistic lifestyle. Allegations published in Novaya ...

A DEFINITION of the professional remit of diocesan safeguarding has been set out in an employment-tribunal ruling that criticises an assistant curate for trying to impose tasks that fell outside it on ...

FAITH is diversifying rather than disappearing from Britain, according to a study of people who have undergone change in their religious belief. Its authors suggest that a “quiet but profound” ...