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Stories of Christians in action, both at home and around the world
- Editor: How are your clergy and lay people coping with lockdown? Here is their chance to have their say – and be counted! If we have learnt anything since last March it is that, with Covid-19, nothing stands still. Just when you think you have worked out what’s going on, another twist in the saga...Covid-19 & Church-21 Survey
- A Christian persecution watchdog has warned that more Christians around the world are suffering because of their faith, and the kind of persecution they’re experiencing has intensified. Open Doors has found that more than 340 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith, amounting to one in eight worldwide. Now the...2021 World Watch List of Persecution of Christians
- Our communities have all been being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic: our schools, hospitals, neighbours, churches, friends and families, so when we’re out on our daily walk, let’s turn the time to prayer. That’s the challenge from HOPE Together, which is encouraging Christians to walk and pray in 2021. Rachel Jordan-Wolf, HOPE’s executive director, says:...Walk and pray for your community in 2021
- The Queen recently spoke for the whole country when she said that many are, “tinged with sadness. Some (are) mourning the loss of those dear to them and other missing friends and family members, distanced for safety. When all they really want … is a simple hug or a squeeze of the hand.” We may...A year of coronavirus
- Thousands of BBC local radio listeners across England recently tuned in to an unusual sporting-themed church service. It wasn’t broadcast from a typical place of worship, a church or a cathedral, but from Wycombe Wanderers FC – a football club in the Championship, the second rung of English soccer. Four of the team’s leading players...Football club takes faith to the airwaves
- When a grieving family came to see the Bishop of St Albans, the encounter sparked a campaign that could transform the role of gambling in British public life. Church of England bishop Alan Smith was deeply impacted by the visit from a family whose son had taken his life because of his struggle with problem...Battling bishop takes on the bookies
- Christian festival Spring Harvest has axed its 2021 in-person events, saying it is “no longer viable or responsible” to host the gatherings at their flagship Butlins locations. Spring Harvest continues to plan for events in 2022. But in the meantime, Spring Harvest Home 2021, the online event which has already been months in the planning, is...Spring Harvest 2021 goes online
- There is a Christian charity that helps churches who want to reach out to their local children in need. ‘Transforming Lives for Good’ (TLG) offers three programmes with which local churches can partner. The “Early Intervention” programme is where TLG train and support volunteers from local churches to be coaches in schools supporting children who...How our church can get help for our struggling children
- Here is a story that went on to change many lives: ‘There was a knock at the door. Pete slowly opened his front door, and the stranger standing before him said in a quiet voice, “Please sir, do you have a bed for the night? I’m homeless.”’ Those words, spoken 20 years ago, stirred such...Green Pastures – the charity that finds homes for the homeless
- Truth at risk of being auctioned to the highest bidder – Archbishop Sir Keir Starmer praises churches Follow a new pilgrim path ‘Being there’ for prisoners during Covid-19 The British Church in 2021 The Church, China and Hong Kong ** Editor: The Revd Peter Crumpler, a Church of England priest in St Albans, Herts, and...Looking at Church (all articles) for February 2021
- Truth is becoming a commodity, up for auction to the highest bidder, says Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell in a recent article published in Radio Times. Lamenting the decline of truth in public life, the Archbishop explains “The echo chambers of social media and the fake news that often goes with it have led us...Truth at risk of being auctioned to the highest bidder – Archbishop
- Christianity has provided a blueprint for social improvement, according to the Labour Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer. Writing in a recent issue of Church Times, he said, “For all the loss and difficulty, we should not let this year be defined by pain. Throughout the pandemic, we have also seen the best of...Sir Keir Starmer praises churches