THE Vatican has been criticised for blocking talks at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on protecting women’s rights, which heard that women are disproportionately disadvantaged by the ...

Anyone who has had to sort out an estate — typically, as executor or, in the absence of a will, as administrator — will have first-hand experience of the amount of time and emotional cost that it ...

A NEW law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every school classroom in the state of Louisiana, in the United States, is facing a long legal battle, after the Bill was blocked by a ...

Conservative Evangelical groups respond to the criticisms in Makin review including that “the beliefs and values of the ...

The Church Times reported last year that both the College of Bishops, which comprises all serving bishops in the C of E, and ...

Dr Wilcox welcomes Bill to protect fans from ‘costly club closures and the irresponsible mismanagement of club finances’ ...

A FORMER Vicar of Sedlescombe, in East Sussex, Ifor Whittaker, 80, formerly known as Colin Ivor Pritchard, has been sentenced at Hove Crown Court to life in prison, with a minimum sentence of eight ...

P. J. SMYTH, John Smyth ’s son, told Channel 4 News this week that his father had been a “master manipulator”. He was a “grand narcissist, barbaric, even monstrous, and my father”, he told Cathy ...

A WEDGE-SHAPED plinth installed without permission in a Cheshire churchyard must be removed because it did not meet ...

THE National Council of Churches in Denmark (NCCD) has criticised the World Council of Churches (WCC) for its “factually ...

The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, and the Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Pete Wilcox, contributed to a debate in the House of Lords on 14 November, on a report by Universities UK, ...

THE Church of England’s Education Office, the National Society, has released a joint report with the Catholic Education Service (CES) and Confederation of School Trusts (CST) seeking to “transform” ...