ISRAEL has committed “genocidal acts” in Gaza, and the situation in the occupied West Bank amounts to “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing”, the Archbishop of York has said. Archbishop Cottrell used the ...

AS A Roman Catholic child living on the Franco-German border, I learned the language of faith long before I understood its meaning. Words such as “holy”, “glory”, and “virgin birth” were markings on a ...

MAYBE it was a Monty Python sketch that first introduced the idea of competitive grievance. Four Yorkshiremen tell stories of their deprived childhoods, each trumping the other in exaggerated ...

Taking up wheelchair basketball after childhood cancer led Amy Conroy to the Paralympics. Now she wants to help other children, she tells Sarah Lothian Read reports from issues stretching back to 1863 ...

WHAT does your favourite film say about you? Top on the list for Pope Leo, revealed by the Vatican on Monday before a special audience with Hollywood stars this weekend, is a mix of musicals, family ...

THE Church of Ireland has been drawn into the growing global Anglican rift after two diocesan bishops publicly endorsed GAFCON’s rejection of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s authority. The Bishop of ...

CHURCHGOING among young people, particularly men, in England and Wales is growing, but not within the Church of England, a new report from the Bible Society suggests. The report, The Quiet Revival, ...

LIKE countless others, I first discovered Sister Wendy by accident. If someone had told me that there was a programme on television featuring an English nun talking about art, I might have skipped it, ...

FLOWERS, it is said, lift the spirits and refresh the soul. And, with weddings and flower festivals in full flow, our churches are often especially full of them at this time of year. What is perhaps ...

CHRISTIANITY can be an olfactory faith. Low Church Protestantism might smell rather bland; but the further the worshipper moves towards the Catholic end of the spectrum, the more the nose is assaulted ...

SAME-SEX couples could be married in the Scottish Episcopal Church by 2017, following a vote in the Church's General Synod on Friday. The Synod, meeting in St Paul's & St George's, Edinburgh, voted to ...

A CAMPAIGN to end the provisions that accompanied the women-bishops legislation of 2014, put in place to provide for those unable to accept women’s ministry (News, 28 July 2014), was launched by Women ...