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The C of E has launched a new foundation to give practical advice and guidance to churches and dioceses hoping to help tackle the housing crisis in their communities. The Church Housing Foundation will promote collaboration between churches and dioceses and experts in a range of areas from community engagement around housing need to planning...

UK churches use lights and prayers to support Ukraine Prayers for God’s blessing for same-sex couples take step forward Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent speech in ‘Living in Love and Faith’ Cof E’s Social Impact Investment Programme to invest in Charity Bank Safeguarding diocesan data 2019-21 Archbishops’ Commission on Racial Justice releases Second Report Church House...

Cathedrals were floodlit in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, candles were lit, and services, prayer vigils and other events were recently held across the country in churches to mark the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24th February. Many of the Church of England’s Cathedrals and churches held prayer vigils that...

The Church of England’s General Synod has recently welcomed proposals which would enable same-sex couples to come to church after a civil marriage or civil partnership to give thanks, dedicate their relationship to God and receive God’s blessing. Synod members also voted to “lament and repent” of the failure of the Church to welcome LGBTQI+...

“We are not divided but we disagree, and that is very painful. And I will use again the words close to those I used to the Bishops gathered at the Lambeth Conference on a very similar debate. “For some, to question the inherited teaching damages witness and is sinful: you point out that in many provinces across...

The Church of England’s Social Impact Investment Programme has recently made a £1.1m investment in Charity Bank, and will take a 3.6% stake in the bank. Charity Bank uses savers’ money to provide much-needed loans to UK charities and social enterprises working to drive positive social change – bringing benefits for people, communities, and the...

New safeguarding data from a three-year period has recently been published by the Church of England. The data is for new concerns reported to the Church in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and relates to all its work. The reports range from concerns about possible risk to direct allegations of abuse. Over the three-year period, the...

The Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice has released the second of its biannual Racial Justice reports. Mandated to drive ‘significant cultural and structural change on issues of racial justice within the Church of England’, the Archbishops’ Commission’s job is to support the implementation of the 47 recommendations of the Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce Lord Boateng has...

Church House Westminster, which hosts some meetings of the General Synod together with some of the National Church Institutions, has been awarded an Eco Church Bronze Award for steps taken to help achieve net zero carbon. The Eco Church Award, given by A Rocha UK, a Christian environmental charity, is given to churches and other...

Bishops propose prayers of God’s blessing for same-sex couples C of E’s links to historic transatlantic slavery on display at Lambeth Palace Transform Care through a National Care Covenant, says Archbishops’ Commission Church Website Provider has saved the UK Church £2.15million Traidcraft goes into administration Millions of children starving worldwide ** Editor:   Please encourage your...

Heavenly Father, We look on with desperation at the events unfolding in Turkey and Syria and turn our faces towards you, our sovereign Lord. Your profound and powerful love brings hope, even in the midst of the most devastating circumstances. While we feel distant and helpless, we know that you are present and able to...

Devastating earthquakes have recently killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria. Hundreds of buildings have been destroyed. Survivors are facing freezing conditions and need urgent aid. As we go to press, more than 24,000 people have been killed, and 17 million have been affected. They urgently need shelter, food and medical aid, or they...