LICENSED lay ministers (LLMs) across the Church of England can now be both warm and recognisable, thanks to the launch of a national hoodie by the Central Readers’ Council. Building upon Bristol ...

WHEN John Clarkson was Governor of Sierra Leone in the late 18th century, he named a waterfront settlement in the centre of the country’s capital after his fiancée, Susan Lee. It was a lovely gesture ...

A MEMORIAL plaque to a former churchwarden of St John the Baptist, Fifield cannot be installed on the north wall of the nave, after the Consistory Court of the diocese of Oxford refused to grant a ...

The Church Times4 Dog, restrained by lead, beginning to savage gnomes? (8) 10 Unexpectedly, I’m able to catch bus for historic temple site (3, 6) 11 Watch classical poet erasing core part of verse (5) ...

FIVE per cent of the respondents to the latest National Churches Trust (NCT) survey say that their church will either “definitely” or “probably” be closed as a place of worship by 2030. The findings ...

THE Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has clarified her position on abortion, saying that she should not be “simply categorised” as “pro-choice”. Bishop Mullally, the A rchbishop-designate ...

TWO churches in Mosul were reconsecrated last week, on completion of reconstruction efforts that followed the occupation of the Iraqi city, from 2014 to 2017, by the so-called Islamic State (IS). St ...

THE number of children living in temporary accommodation because of homelessness has reached a record high, having risen by 7.5 per cent over the past year. The latest figures released by the ...

CHURCHES are “incredibly anxious” about the future of the Listed Places of Worship Grant scheme (News, 11 April), which must be made permanent, the Archbishop of York told the National Churches Trust ...