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Do you know that in Kenya, many parents and caregivers struggle to provide their children with even one meal a day? As a response to the need, the Kisumu Children Trust has long been feeding as many desperately hungry children as it can in the Kisumu area of Kenya, where food is often scarce and...

Do you value your Bible?  If so, Felix of Thibiuca (247 – 303) is a good patron saint for you.  The year was 303, and Diocletian was emperor in Rome.  In February of that year he decided that Christians were NOT a good thing. So he issued an edict:  all copies of the Christian Scriptures...

‘In person church attendance’ can fall by almost a third (29%) if a local church closes, a new opinion poll has found. The poll, commissioned by the National Churches Trust, revealed that when a local church closes, 22% of the churchgoers are unwilling or unable to worship in a different church. A further 7% said...

Many people name their homes, and there is certainly a dizzying variety of names out there. But now a new study has found that nearly all the most common property names have something to do with nature. And in Britain, the most popular house name of all is short and sweet: ‘The Cottage’. Next in...

 Some 65 years ago, on 11th October 1959, Britain began introducing postcodes. They started in Norwich, and by 1974 had been rolled out across the whole country. The idea was to speed up sorting following the mechanisation of the postal system. But for the process to work, people had to use it, and it was...

Can you think of a politician who deserves to be called a saint?  If no one currently living politician comes to mind, never mind – there is always King Alfred of Wessex (871-899). This remarkable and best known of all the Anglo-Saxon rulers may have dozed off and let some cakes burn while a peasant...

It was 175 years ago, on 17th October 1849, that Frederic Chopin, Polish composer and piano virtuoso, died. His final words – “Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won’t be buried alive” – revealed his taphephobia, a fairly common nineteenth-century fear shared by Alfred Nobel. Chopin had been quite seriously ill for...

Which do you prefer, when it comes to eating scones? Of course, Cornwall and Devon have long been in rivalry over it, with Cornwall preferring the jam first, while Devon opts for the cream. Now a recent YouGov survey has found the Cornish method is currently winning the debate. 62 per cent of us, and...

A new pilot scheme from the Church of England is helping churches double their money for carbon-cutting projects. Give To Go Green is a match-funding pilot project from the Church of England’s Net Zero Programme, working with churches to double locally raised donations, to help pay for carbon reducing projects. The scheme was first piloted over...

Hostility towards Christians is growing in India. In the past four years, almost 1700 people have been arrested under anti-conversion laws in one state, Uttar Pradesh, alone. And Uttar Pradesh is moving to tighten that law. A new bill increases the maximum penalty for fraudulent or forced conversion to 20 years with provision for life...

Odran is a suitable saint to remember as Halloween approaches, for his story involves the spirit world. British by birth, Odran (died c. 563) was one of Columba’s first companions on Iona.  Sadly, he died not long after his arrival on the island.  But Columba found comfort, for in a vision he saw Odran’s soul...

Walkers in Britain could stand to lose thousands of miles of rights of way, because of the sheer size of the growing backlog of applications for footpaths to be recognised and protected. The Government has set a deadline of 2031 for public footpaths and bridleways to be officially mapped. But local authorities still have nearly...