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A new report has revealed for the first time that one person is dying every 30 seconds in developing countries from diseases and illnesses caused by plastic pollution and uncollected rubbish dumped or burnt near their homes. The new figures were released in No Time to Waste: Tackling the Plastic Pollution Crisis Before it’s Too...

Prayer spaces in public places Our clergy are under stress  The extraordinary Sarah Chang Helping victims of kidnap at sea Summer’s Music Festivals – time for the angels to come! We could make so much more of cathedral tours… A helpful way of learning about the Christian faith ** Editor:  Churches are being encouraged to...

If you led a wild life before your conversion, then Olaf is the saint for you. Indeed, anything you have done could hardly match him, for he was a brigand and pirate who roamed the Baltic and Normandy around 1015 AD, maiming and killing, stealing and destroying, feared by all. Then on one particular raid...

Are you a gardener?  Then please consider this:  the gardeners of Britain are continuing to use up the country’s endangered peat supplies, despite repeated warnings from environmentalists. Now Plantlife, the campaign group, warns that commercial extraction of peat from our peat bogs can remove more than 500 years’ worth of peat growth in a single...

The Bishop of Birmingham, the Rt Rev David Urquhart, Convenor of the Lords Spiritual, has responded to Theresa May’s departure.  He said: “Theresa May has given dedicated and committed public service to the country during very difficult times. I wish her and Philip well as they prepare for life beyond Downing Street. “I am especially...

Churches across the UK are to launch Hope Spaces in 2020. The Talking Jesus research found that 41% of practising Christians say that a spiritual experience or an experience of the love of Jesus was a key influence in their coming to faith. The aim of Hope Spaces is to help people to experience God’s...

“The hardest work I have ever done and the most stressful.” That was how Archbishop Justin Welby described his time as a vicar. “It was isolated, insatiably demanding, and I was, on the whole, working without colleagues. That wears people down.” Stress, anxiety and other mental health issues account for one-third of all clerical sickness,...

During the 18th century many people in England were involved in the campaign to abolish the slave trade.  The CofE remembers especially William Wilberforce, Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson – three very different but all tireless campaigners against the evil practice. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was an Anglican clergyman and one of the most prominent of...

What do you do with your used tin foil?  Councils are asking us to give it a good rinse from any food or grease, so that it can be recycled.  Foil trays could be added to your dishwasher, so that you don’t waste time or water washing them separately. As the Aluminium Recycling Packaging Organisation...

Christians have called on PM Narendra Modi to guarantee religious freedom in India, following the recent Indian elections which saw a landslide victory for the nationalist BJP. The tightening nationalist grip on India is concerning Christians who are suffering increasing violence at the hands of extremists. Christians warn that religious polarisation in India is now...

 Four Church of England cathedrals have benefited from a cash injection of over £8m to help them engage with their communities through imaginative outreach, arts, heritage and learning projects, thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Leicester, Lichfield, Newcastle and Worcester Cathedrals announced awards from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a wide range of...

When, in 2010, 4000 delegates from 198 countries gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for the Lausanne Movement’s Third International Congress on World Evangelization, one unlikely speaker stood out from the rest.  She was a young North Korean orphan, dressed in her high school uniform, who told the story of her family’s escape from the...