PROPOSED changes to prison sentences are driven by politics and “pandering to public opinion”, and fail to look at the bigger, longer-term picture, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek ...

INDIGENOUS protesters at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil clashed with UN security guards on Tuesday night after the group attempted to enter the conference “blue zone”, restricted to registered ...

THE Church of England must move much faster in its efforts to overhaul safeguarding, the Charity Commission reports. The current implementation of reform is being pursued with “insufficient urgency ...

The Church Times14 September to 24 November 2025 St Martin-in-the-Fields Autumn Lecture Series 2025 investigates those things in which we believe deeply – and for which we would be prepared to make a ...

TWENTY London churches are now accredited as Living Wage Employers, the diocese has reported. This week is designated as Living Wage Week, which the diocese has marked with a film featuring ...

FOR four-and-a-half centuries, the Hidden Christians in Japan lived in the shadows. To meet them, I had to go there, too: down the archipelago’s back roads, past the neon metropolises, into a ...

“WE ARE here to be alongside you; we are here to show solidarity with you,” the Archbishop of York told the congregation at St Andrew’s, Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Sunday. Archbishop Cottrell ...

THE congregation of St Boniface’s, Whipton, in Exeter, is feeling the benefit of a new underfloor heating system, which has been designed to maintain a steady temperature throughout the winter and to ...

CONFUSION over a parish questionnaire has resulted in the omission of the annual membership count from the 2024 annual report of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Other data suggest that ...

Playing the piano is akin to having a second language in which to speak, think, and pray, writes Simon Parke WE START with a riddle: “What has keys but can’t listen to the beauty it unlocks? A piano.” ...

TWENTY-THREE years since the closure of St Elisabeth’s, Eastbourne, there are hopes that housing will be built on the site where the church was demolished in 2021. The church, once described in the ...

OLIVIA BARKER WHITE first visited Uganda in 2007, during a gap year that she and five other young people had embarked on with a Christian charity. When she arrived, she was asked to teach ...