THE UK’s Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, David Smith MP, has set out a framework for tackling restrictions of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) and highlighted ten countries where the ...

A GAY man who raised a complaint about an attempted exorcism that sought to “rid him of his homosexual inclinations ” has ...

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THE Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Pete Wilcox, is to chair a statutory inquiry into the violence at the coking plant at Orgreave, Rotherham, in 1984, when 6000 police officers, many on horseback, confronted ...

IT WAS another heatwave and a distinctly heady start to this year’s General Synod in York (11 to 15 July). Members gathered ...

Pope Leo expresses his ‘profound sadness’ after church is hit, and calls for ‘an immediate halt to the barbarism of the war’ ...

Dr Short is the first bishop of a non-metropolitan diocese to be elected and the first Evangelical Primate since 1982 ...

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Paul Vallely: Why Netanyahu capitulated to Trump and agreed to a ceasefire Female composers through the centuries have been inspired by the Song of Songs, says Anna Macham ...