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The Church of England has recently made contactless, virtual terminal, and SMS mobile payments available throughout England, in a bid to make transactions faster and easier for the Church’s congregations. In an increasingly cashless era, churches will now be able to offer cashless payment options for events including weddings, christenings, church fetes and concerts, as...

The Church of England has welcomed the recent ruling by Mr Justice Ouseley at the High Court on the Government’s two-child rule for payment of tax credits and universal credit. The Bishop of Manchester, David Walker, said: “We are pleased the High Court has recognised that the two-child limit is in part unlawful and that kinship...

Church of England survey highlights what it means to be a mother in Britain today Always being there to support their children when needed tops the list of important things that the British public say their mothers have done for them, new research has found. Teaching them to “do the right thing” and showing the...

A leading campaigner has warned of a gathering storm for persecuted Christians in China. Release International partner, Bob Fu, says the persecution of Christians has worsened dramatically under President Xi Jinping, and is set to get worse now Xi has been declared president for life. Bob Fu said: ‘Churches have been totally destroyed under President...

The Bishop of St Albans, a leading campaigner for measures to limit the harm done by Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs), has recently responded to recommendations from the Gambling Commission. The Rt Revd Alan Smith supports reducing the maximum stake on the machines to £2, from the current level of £100. The Commission has recommended limiting the stake to at...

Lords Rowan Williams and Richard Harries have helped launch a new campaign for a fairer tax system: Church Action for Tax Justice (CAT). CAT will seek to inspire all Churches about the urgency of creating fairer and more effective tax systems to fund healthier public services, both in the UK and internationally. Rowan Williams, who...

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The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death’ (Isaiah 57:1-2 NIV) What happens to their Facebook page when they die...

‘Everyone seems to be against something’, someone said to me the other day, and I had to agree. ‘What I can’t stand is . . .’ can be followed by almost anything, from babies screaming in the coffee shop to people who will say ‘Take care!’, junk mail, careless parkers or even someone’s accent or...

Do you mash your own potatoes?  Maybe not, if the sales figures are anything to go by:  we bought £76million worth of chilled mashed potato last year. Prepared mashed potato was popular in the Seventies and Eighties with the arrival of Smash! powder, which lost popularity in the Nineties.  Now the purchase of ready-mashed chilled...

‘Gain a child and lose a tooth’ may not be just an old wives’ tale.  Recent research has found that women who have three children are likely to have fewer teeth than women with two children.  It is thought that pregnancy hormones may be interfering with calcium absorption, thus leaving teeth more likely to decay...