The UN Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 was launched in Geneva on 4 December. It finds that 305.1 million people are in need ...

The 2800-word text says that a “year of forgiveness and freedom” was declared every half-century by ancient Jewish ...

Quoting from “Once in Royal David’s City”, he spoke of God’s “redeeming love”. “That is the heart of the nativity story and ...

The Traveller, Sammy Cooper, sought a faculty for the memorial over the grave of his father in the churchyard of the Grade II ...

THE youth homelessness charity DePaul UK has described as “heart-warming” the reunion of one of its Nightstop service users ...

Bishops across the Church of England have released Christmas messages, of which several refer to conflict in the world. The ...

The Church Times Green Church Awards have two objectives: to celebrate the remarkable efforts made in recent years by individuals and congregations to offset the damage being done to the earth, and to ...

THE threshold for inheritance tax levied on farms should be raised, in order to alleviate the pressure that the Government’s ...

An online seasonal retreat with Paula Gooder, Ally Barrett, Mark Oakley, Richard Carter and Andrew Rudd. Rachel Mann has sadly had to withdraw from this year’s retreat. Mark Oakley is the Dean of ...

A PRIEST accused of child sexual abuse, who had paid a settlement to one of his alleged victims, was reappointed twice as an ...

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We continue our series of Advent reflections from Richard Harries’s new book ...