THE statement from Gafcon that it had “reset” the Anglican Communion was developed at a meeting in Sydney last week, it has been revealed. In an interview posted on the website of the conservative ...

THE founder of Soul Survivor, Mike Pilavachi, has been stripped of his MBE for “bringing the honours system into disrepute”, a government notice has confirmed. Mr Pilavachi, whose abuse of power was ...

Provinces encouraged ‘to amend their constitution to remove any reference to being in communion with the See of Canterbury and the Church of England’ ...

DIVISIONS among Anglicans, while not new, “require urgent attention and repair”, the secretary-general of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Rt Revd Anthony Poggo, has said. It came two weeks ...

Proper 25: Jeremiah 14.7-10, 19-end; Psalm 84.1-7; 2 Timothy 4.6-8, 16-18 LUKE draws the moral from this parable before he tells it: Jesus challenges people who consider themselves righteous, but ...

THE cellist Guy Johnston has just begun a short tour performing Sir John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil, with the Britten Sinfonia. A spine-tingling performance at the Hatfield Music Festival (of which ...

PLANNING policy is to be strengthened to protect church bells from being silenced by complaints from people who have moved into the surrounding area, the Government has confirmed. The Secretary of ...

THE Dean of Ely, the Very Revd Mark Bonney, is to retire at the end of next July after 40 years of ordained ministry. He moved to Ely in 2012 from Salisbury, where he was Canon Treasurer, and guided ...

A CHRISTIAN officer in the Indian army has been at the centre of a legal dispute over religious freedom for five years. The officer, Lt. Samuel Kamalesan, in New Delhi, was dismissed in March 2021 for ...

LAST MONTH, I went to the UnHerd Club, in central London, to be told that we can expect at least 23,000 deaths a year in the coming conflict between groups based in the Islamist cities and those whose ...

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, ...