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The Church of England’s ‘gifted, talented and brilliant’ self-supporting ministers are celebrated in a series of films recently published, ahead of Vocations Sunday. A hairdresser, a data consultant, a solicitor and a teacher, all of whom are priests, speak about their dual vocations in the secular workplace and in churches. The Bishop of Birkenhead, Julie...

A major new programme will see the launch of worshipping communities for children and families, based on songs that are already popular in school assemblies. iSingPOP will support 300 churches to create new gatherings where families from local primary schools will be invited to explore faith together, drawing on the energetic worship songs children already...

St David’s Cathedral recently marked 60 years since girl choristers first sang in the Cathedral Choir with a celebratory evensong. It was in April 1966 that the Cathedral Choir were busy preparing for a BBC radio broadcast of choral evensong, when in the days leading up to the recording, numerous boy choristers succumbed to a...

Gathering Anglicans from around the world, the 19th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-19) will take place in Belfast from 27th June to 5th July 2026. Themed ‘Called to One Hope’ from the letter to the Ephesians, this important international gathering of Anglican bishops, clergy and laity will explore how the Church can share the reconciling...

‘Thy Kingdom Come’ – global prayer movement marks ten years Abortion law changes: Bishops take part in House of Lords debate Russian clerics want more Ukrainian land, and praise the Ayatollah World Council of Churches condemns Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children Vatican says people with Down syndrome are of ‘equal dignity’ Bible Society says...

This year the global prayer movement Thy Kingdom Come (TKC) will take place from Thursday 14th to Sunday 24thMay. Spanning the 11 days between Ascension and Pentecost, the initiative encourages Christians to pray for five people whom they know (friends, families, neighbours) to come to faith. This year is a special one for Thy Kingdom...

Eleven bishops joined a recent late night sitting in the House of Lords to debate proposed changes to the law on abortion. A clause in the Crime and Policing Bill, inserted in the House of Commons last year, will disapply the existing criminal law for women who access an abortion outside the legal limits. This...

A senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Kirill (Pokrovsky) of Stavropol, has recently called for Russia to move in and occupy even more Ukrainian territory. His call came as the war entered its fifth year. Metropolitan Kirill is the Church’s director for relations with the armed forces. He said: “If the Western satanists...

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has responded with grave concern to a recent United Nations commission that has confirmed Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children. “These actions are a shocking violation of the God-given dignity of every child and the sanctity of family bonds”, said the WCC’s general secretary, the Revd Professor Jerry Pillay....

The Vatican has affirmed that a person with Down syndrome has the same dignity and sacred value as any other. It firmly rejects prenatal screening and the selective termination of pregnancies, where the condition has been diagnosed in the unborn child. The Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio in Geneva, Archbishop Balestrero, said that “persons with Down...

The Bible Society has said that the survey sample on which its report the Quiet Revival was  based was “faulty, and it can no longer be regarded as a reliable source of information about the spiritual landscape in Britain”. In a recent statement, the Bible Society’s CEO, Paul Williams, said: “We are. . . deeply...

Those of us who enjoy visiting Betws-y-Coed will be glad to know that the bells at St Mary’s Church in Betws-y-Coed were rung for the first time at a church service this Easter, following the completion of a major restoration project. Although the church was built with plans for a full ring of bells, that...