There have long been calls for Newman to be made a Doctor of the Church. At the time of his canonisation, the RC Archbishop ...

THE redress scheme for victims survivors of church-related abuse moved closer to completion, after the General Synod gave the ...

THE Russian Orthodox Church has moved to reinforce its presence among Orthodox leaders in neighbouring Belarus, with a ...

THE Bishop of Monmouth, the Rt Revd Cherry Vann, is the new Archbishop of Wales.

Requests were officially brought to the Supreme Court by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice ...

Many dioceses like ours have made exhaustive efforts to raise our level of giving . . . but sadly we have been unsuccessful’ says Bishop of Hereford ...

Sam Margrave (Coventry) was going to vote against the Measure, which he described as a “power grab”. He was concerned about paying members of CENS and the “diminished role of Synod”. More people from ...

THE Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, who chairs the Triennial Funding Working Group (TFWG), introduced to the General Synod on the Friday the “ambitious financial package” agreed with the ...

THE General Synod voted to amend the Church Representation Rules on the Monday. Its resolutions will now be laid before Parliament. Clive Scowen (London), for the Elections Review Group, reminded ...

A Church whose hands are consecrated to bring life cannot support the prescription of life-ending drugs’ Bishop of London says ...

AFTER a presentation and debate on the Sunday evening, the General Synod took note of the report Thy Kingdom Come: Renewing the call to prayer and evangelism.

The Revd Graham Kirk-Spriggs (Norwich) told the Synod: “There is no way I am ever going to afford a house. . . There is presumption in [the] pension scheme that you have a lovely middle-class partner ...