THE campaigning group Save the Parish (STP) has launched its manifesto for the elections to the next General Synod. It is ...

SIGNIFICANT progress in church safeguarding is being undermined by resistance from senior officers, INEQE, the company auditing safeguarding in every diocese and cathedral, has said. INEQE said in its ...

OVERWHELMING support for a motion of “no confidence” in the Archbishops’ Council’s oversight of safeguarding — carried by Rochester diocesan synod — had the backing of the Bishop, Dr Jonathan Gibbs, ...

THE charity Stewardship, which manages charitable donations from churches, charities, and individuals, has reported that last year was its highest income year on record. Its 2025 annual report, ...

The review, also carried out by Fiona Scolding KC, was commissioned by the trustees of New Wine last February (News, 1 March 2024). It considers the extent to which New Wine knew of the allegations ...

THE General Synod, after hours of impassioned debate and procedural delays, has voted to “hear” a document that describes Israel as a “colonial enterprise” that inflicted a “genocidal war on Gaza”. A ...

A LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT Bill to scrap the requirement for daily collective worship in non-faith schools in England and replace it with inclusive assemblies has returned to the House of Lords. The Education ...

“SOMETHING great is happening,” the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, a convert to Christianity while in prison, said in his closing words at a carol concert in December. “I‘ve seen it at each one ...

WHEN the diocese of Liverpool put its independent evaluation of the Transforming Wigan (TW) project in the public domain, it bucked a trend (News, 29 September 2023). Few evaluations of projects ...

ANN WIDDECOMBE, the former Conservative minister turned Reform UK campaigner, who was received into the Roman Catholic Church after the ordination of women in the Church of England, has died, aged 78.

BOTH the Church’s funding bodies and the Government should ramp up investment in cathedrals, where financial pressures are resulting in commercial bookings that risk “crowding out the sense of ...

AT LEAST once a year, news of congregational conflict overflows the parish boundaries and makes it into the newspapers. This summer, it was the turn of the diocese of Chester. The Bishop, the Rt Revd ...