SEARCHING for a good word to describe the drama of Advent Sunday, I was tempted by “cataclysmic”. The “day of the Lord”, the Bible says, will bring darkness, desolation, and destruction. The prophets ...

“WE NEED to remind ourselves that every person is of immeasurable value and cannot be diminished by illness, disability, or care costs,” the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, told the ...

EXTREME weather made its presence felt at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil on Monday. Peals of thunder, tropical rainfall, and then strong winds lashed the tented venue. Torrents of water flowed ...

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 ...

CONCERNS about the “huge power” enjoyed by the body set to replace the Archbishops’ Council were voiced in Parliament last week, during a meeting of the Ecclesiastical Committee. Convened to consider ...

A COURT hearing about the ban on the administrative centre of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which, Ukrainian authorities argue, remains tied to the Moscow Patriarchate, has been postponed once ...

JUST before Judas meets the high priests and scribes (Luke 22.3), Jesus addresses disciples under pressure. Into a situation of terror (arrest, persecution, betrayal ...