The Bishops had been expected to formally approve decisions to subject proposals for stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples and the reconsideration of rules that bar the clergy from ...

BIBLICAL accounts of families crossing lands to escape food shortages found contemporary echoes in 2025, with hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and Afghanistan displaced by drought ...

THE Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Revd Kanishka Raffel, has issued a statement embracing “Jewish neighbours and fellow citizens in love, friendship, and support” in the aftermath of what he described ...

THE Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, was “clearly correct” in taking no further action against the Revd Tim Hastie-Smith concerning the handling of reports about John Smyth’s abusive behaviour ...

LIGHTS up on bare staging. A young woman stands with trepidation and defiance before her fiancé and parents. Her father speaks with simmering anger: Joachim: Do you realise what you’ve done to us, ...

THE Armenian Apostolic Church has condemned the arrest of a fourth senior prelate in its dispute with the Armenian government, and has urged other bishops not to succumb to unconstitutional “coercive ...

PRIMATES allied to the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) have condemned the Archbishop of Canterbury for “refusing to prevent” the appointment of the Very Revd David Monteith as Dean of ...

South West If you have a heart for outreach into a diverse community; the gifts to lead a church as part of a collaborative team; a commitment to inclusion and the desire to live and minister in a ...

The Church TimesLondon and Home Counties The Abbey of St Benedict, London, wishes to appoint a Director of Music to lead the Catholic choir of Ealing Abbey, and to contribute to the development of the ...

LAST MONTH, I went to the UnHerd Club, in central London, to be told that we can expect at least 23,000 deaths a year in the coming conflict between groups based in the Islamist cities and those whose ...