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AGRICULTURAL land equivalent to the landmass of Switzerland has been lost to food production in Sudan since conflict ignited in 2023, according to a new report from the Christian humanitarian charity World Vision. Drawing on high-resolution satell...
DOZENS of church leaders, Nobel laureates, and former government officials have joined in an appeal to stop AI from starting a new arms race. “More than eighty years after the dawn of the nuclear age, and at the threshold of the age of AI, we are ...
NEARLY 40 religious leaders — including the Bishops of Chelmsford and Sheffield — have written to the new Prime Minister, urging him to reverse the Home Office’s asylum and immigration reforms. “This is a moment to choose what kind of country we a...
PARENTS, teachers, and pupils of Cilgerran Church in Wales Voluntary Controlled School travelled to Haverfordwest last week to confront Pembrokeshire County Council directly over its proposal to remove the school’s church status. The school formal...
RELIGIOUS leaders in Switzerland have condemned the abolition — on grounds of falling church attendance — of a traditional military-service exemption for the clergy. “The political justification is understandable: Churches have lost social signifi...
JULIET BARKER broke new ground in The Brontës (1994) by going back to the original manuscripts, scattered and difficult to decipher, rather than relying on printed sources, and by spending two years reading contemporary newspapers, an important so...
THE author presents this as “above all a history”, but he pauses at the outset to explore the wider range of categories in which such a study might be placed, given the many ways and circumstances in which the “universal human desire to offer worl...
CHRISTIANS have taken to the streets to protest in “holy rage” against the shooting of two men by immigration and customs agents in the United States. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, an undocumented migrant from Mexico who had lived in the US for 35 y...
BRISTOL Quakers have issued a formal apology for their part in trafficking enslaved African people, stating: “Quaker complicity was an offence against our core belief in the sacredness of every person’s life.” The statement, issued on Monday, read...
THE improved outcomes for Muslims who received therapy that is adapted to their faith are among the examples of faith-literate care cited in new report which argues that such care must no longer be a “nice-to-have” option. Faith in the NHS: Better...
INTERVIEWS with 30 18- to 30-year-olds who began attending an Anglican church for the first time in the five years after the Covid-19 pandemic lend weight to the theory that Generation Z is a “spiritually curious” generation, a new report suggests...
SIGNIFICANT progress in church safeguarding is being undermined by resistance from senior officers, INEQE, the company auditing safeguarding in every diocese and cathedral, has said. INEQE said in its 2025 audit that the Church of England was expe...
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