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Here is a very sad statistic:  one in four girls aged 14 has already self-harmed.  And a recent survey by the Children’s Society has also discovered that girls are less happy than boys with school life.  The charity analysed data from the Understanding Society survey and may have found the reason:  jokes and comments in...

If we were to name someone prominent from the 17th century, we might mention Rembrandt or Shakespeare. It is unlikely we would remember George Herbert. However, he was a prolific writer, a gifted speaker and musician. His hymns are still sung today. Herbert was born into a wealthy family in Mid-Wales on 3rd April 1593....

You might well lose weight by eating a late breakfast and an early dinner. A study published in the Journal of Nutritional Science has found that if you delay breakfast by 90 minutes, and eat supper 90 minutes earlier, you may well lose weight, even if you do not change what you eat. Researchers believe...

On 27th February the Church Calendar celebrates George Herbert. For those who are muttering ‘never heard of him’, just think of the hymn ‘Let all the world/ In every corner sing’, which he wrote, along with several other hymns which are still popular, even if they are well over 300 years old.  In the course...

Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong? The Beatles saw loneliness all around them back in the 60s, when they wrote the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby.  And loneliness is growing:  the number of lonely over-50s will hit two million within seven years, according to recent data from...

The sheer amount of personal data that children and their parents are giving away about themselves is staggering.  Consider this: Children aged 11 – 16 post on social media on average 26 times a day By 13, a child will have about 1,300 pictures and videos of themselves posted online. By 18, the average child...

The Church News Service closed with the December 2018 issue.  We would warmly invite you to instead to help yourself to the huge variety of material on the website.    Church News Service was only ever a digest of the Parish Pump site, a very small selection of our wide range of material.   If you...

Full extent of Church of England work to support local communities revealed Lead Bishop for Education calls on Government for Rural Strategy Nigeria’s Christians brace for attacks ahead of elections 2020 Lambeth Conference Four out of five Christians have ‘taken action’ on poverty Religious freedom under threat worldwide Churches urged to embrace contactless payments as...

More than 33,000 social action projects – from food banks to debt counselling – are run or supported by churches, according to figures setting out for the first time the full scale of the Church of England’s service to communities. The findings – which amount to the largest survey to date of the extent of...

The Church of England’s lead bishop for Education, the Rt Revd Stephen Conway,  Bishop of Ely, has called for a cross-Government rural strategy to safeguard the future of education in rural communities. Bishop Stephen said that while ‘We have been reassured that the Government has a presumption against the closure of rural schools,’ and also...

A leading Anglican is warning that Nigeria’s Christians face escalating attacks by Islamist militants in the lead-up to this year’s (2019) general election. Christian farmers in the north are being driven from their homes and killed by Fulani herdsmen. The Anglican Archbishop of Jos, Benjamin Kwashi, has called for the Nigerian government to intervene to...