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Vatican seeks to become world’s first carbon-neutral state Spurgeon’s College collapses Is there a spiritual revival going on among our young people? Christian concern after UN fails to reach agreement on plastic Millions are still available to help Listed Places of Worship Families are living in ‘daily anxiety’ about finances, says CAP Church-run bereavement course...

The Vatican has signed an agreement with Italy over a 100-million-euro project which will make it fully reliant on solar energy. The Vatican will obtain its electricity from a new agrivoltaics plant at Santa Maria di Galeria. The 1000-acre site north of Rome is currently home to Vatican Radio’s transmission towers. The agreement was signed...

Spurgeon’s College, the well-known Baptist theological college in south London, recently closed with immediate effect. Founded by the celebrated Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon in 1856, the college has trained thousands of Baptist ministers for ordination for nearly 170 years. But in early August, a brief statement from the Board of Trustees said that a...

A leading Roman Catholic professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Vienna thinks that this may well be so. For the Revd Paul Zulehner says that while Church is still losing young people, it is also gaining them. “We’re clearly witnessing a protest against mainstream secularisation, as groups of youngsters yearn for re-spiritualisation or...

The recent UN talks in Geneva were intended to finalise a legally binding agreement for countries to tackle plastic pollution. Almost 190 countries were represented. But despite ten days of negotiations, no consensus was reached. A small number of oil-producing nations, including Russia and Saudi Arabia, blocked key proposals on reducing plastic production and phasing...

 Almost three-quarters of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme funding remains available for the 2025-26 period. With seven months still to go in which applications can be made, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) says that – of the £23 million available — £5,498,850 has been used to date, and there is...

Many parents on low incomes are worried about how they will cope financially this winter. A recent report from CAP, Child Poverty: Insights into the real challenges families across the UK are facing, found that “the weight of responsibility and pressure to provide for children is a heavy burden” for many, and that “parents sometimes go...

 A church-run bereavement course is having a “profound and wide-reaching impact on adults of all ages,” according to a recent independent evaluation. The Bereavement Journey, run by the Christian charity AtaLoss, is “addressing a national need for bereavement support”, and is “ideal for the significant majority — 85-90 per cent — of bereaved people who...

 Religious Studies (RS) GCSE in England and Wales fell by 2.6 per cent this year, but it still remains a popular subject.  And the Religious Education Council (REC) of England and Wales is calling for more specialist teachers. The REC said in a recent statement that RS was “the seventh most widely taken subject in...

The Baptist Union of Great Britain with BMS World Mission have launched a new church resource to help those considering “an ongoing blessing to support God’s mission both in the UK and overseas.” Called I WILL, the material is flexible and could be used for a one-off Sunday focus through to an entire series looking...

Archbishop of York’s Presidential Address to General Synod Gaza food system ‘like Hunger Games’ – Archbishop Hosam Pray for Armed Forces amid ‘uncertain’ times, General Synod hears General Synod calls for a funding of palliative care General Synod approves redress scheme for survivors  Synod backs national spending plans for next three years Synod approves transformation...

Archbishop Stephen delivered the Presidential Address at the opening of the July General Synod group of sessions in York: I think it was Graham Greene who said, ‘If you are going to jump, make sure the water is deep.’ As I have spent a working lifetime of ministry reflecting on both the theology and the...