EXETER CATHEDRAL was among the venues across England chosen to host opening ceremonies for the Women’s Rugby World Cup, which ...

The Church TimesAndrew Brown writes the weekly Press column for the Church Times. His book Fishing in Utopia, a memoir about living in Sweden, won the 2009 Orwell Prize. He is also the co-author, with ...

A GRADE II listed church in Camden, in north-west London, has been given more than £600,000 for “urgent repairs” so that it ...

THE 80th anniversary of VJ — Victory over Japan — Day was commemorated at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, ...

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FORTY-THREE per cent of the parents and carers of under-18s told a survey that they experienced “daily anxiety about their finances”, Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has warned. The organisation’s ...

POSSESSION of a safeguarding certificate should be made a prerequisite for ministering in the Church of England, two priests have proposed in a report, which they hope will put debates about church ...

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AS THE Proms roll on and Edinburgh gets under way, there is another summer festival that, in its action-packed week is, chorally not least, a rival to both. This summer, the energetic and superbly ...

BATCHELOR. The Revd Michael Batchelor, Assistant Curate of St Stephen’s, Willenhall (Lichfield). BENNETT. The Revd Paul Bennett, Rector of St James and St John, Longton, and Meir (Lichfield).

They are, Dr Black says, “just turning up out of the blue, in really quite unusual ways”. In some instances, people have arrived having had a dream. Others have arrived “randomly” at prayer and ...