THE membership of the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) that will choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury is expected to be known by mid-March, before its first meeting in May, the Archbishops’ ...

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A PLEA for the new United States administration to be merciful to undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ people has been rejected by President Trump as “nasty in tone” and from a “Radical Left hard line ...

SUNDAY marked the start of the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the first group of hostages under the agreement that was finally reached on Friday. Its fate had hung in the balance until the ...

THE Revd Don Cupitt, the Anglican priest and philosopher whose BBC TV series The Sea of Faith brought him to prominence in 1984, has died, aged 90. A life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he ...

SOLAR panels — 184 of them — have been installed and blessed on the roof of York Minster. The Dean, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, prayed: “Bless these solar panels that they may help us in our ...

APPROVAL of stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples is unlikely to be put to the General Synod this summer, it has been announced. Decisions on whether clergy can enter into same-sex ...

TENSIONS were high as Mozambique prepared for the swearing-in of President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday, amid continued street protests over the disputed parliamentary election result. Thousands of ...

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MORE than one third of adults in the UK are anxious about their everyday finances, new polling from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. Through its latest campaign, “Budget not Blues”, the ...