THE Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines, has announced that he is to retire on 30 November.

CELEBRITY supporters of the anti-poverty charity Trussell have expressed opposition to the Government’s proposed benefit ...

THE Pope has been discharged from hospital and made his first public appearance in five weeks, after a long hospitalisation ...

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FIVE years ago, on Mothering Sunday, the first national online service was broadcast on the Church of England’s media ...

FAITH leaders are calling on the Government to be “bold and ambitious” in its strategy to reduce poverty among children, ...

THE Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, has been elected by the House of Bishops to be the Canterbury Province’s ...

IN A Lords debate that emphasised the importance of integration to community cohesion, Lord Rook of Wimbledon — a founder of ...

THE diocese of Carlisle, and its cathedral, has a “positive safeguarding culture” according to an independent audit published ...

ALTERNATIVES to diocesan chrism eucharists are being organised this year in conjunction with the Church of England ...

THE next Area Bishop of Wakefield in the diocese of Leeds is to be the Ven. Malcolm Chamberlain, Archdeacon of Sheffield and ...

THREE schools on the Isle of Wight that had been slated for closure will not be shut this summer, it was decided on Thursday, ...