For the first time in nearly 500 years, the Pope and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury will join in public prayers Wednesday, an event that hasn’t taken place since the Church of England broke from Rome in the 16th century.
Police officers carrying semi-automatic weapons are now guarding one of the most sacred Christian sites in Britain following the martyrdom of a Catholic priest at the hands of jihadists in France two months ago. Armed police have been spotted at
Children should be taught to understand the Jihadi mindset if they are to make sense of why people commit terrorist acts, the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested. Speaking to an audience of headteachers, the most senior cleric in England’s state
Christians are partly to blame for “deeply entrenched” anti-Semitism in British society, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.
Sex within a committed homosexual relationship is perfectly “proper”, the Archbishop of Wales has said, arguing that Christians who support same-sex marriage are not “abandoning the Bible.”
The Bishop of Grantham, Nicholas Chamberlain, has become the first Church of England Bishop to publicly announce that he is gay and in a relationship. Chamberlain made the decision to go public after a Sunday newspaper threatened to reveal his
England’s established church is edging nearer to a formal split over the issue of homosexuality as a group of parishes prepare to set up a “shadow synod” to uphold traditional Christian teaching. Around a dozen parishes in South East England
A gay Church of England priest who married his partner in defiance of the church’s official line on same sex marriage has announced that he is gathering signatures for a letter to the House of Bishops, urging them to relax
A parish church in the English Midlands is converting three to four Muslim migrants to Christianity each week, simply by opening its doors and offering assistance to the newcomers. Many report having first been turned away from local mosques despite
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Church of England’s spiritual leader will house a family of Syrian refugees in a cottage at his official London residence, Lambeth Palace, from next month, a local councillor said on Wednesday. Archbishop of Canterbury
The Church of England has warned that hundreds of migrants are exploiting a loophole where they convert to Christianity in a bid to avoid being deported to Iran. In Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral alone more than 200 Iranians have recently converted from
People who have no religion now outstrip Christians in England and Wales, as those brought up within the faith are falling away, new analysis of religious beliefs in the two countries has found. The proportion of people who consider themselves
The Church of Wales is investigating a minister who tweeted about radical Islam and expressed online a positive opinion of the anti-Islamisation group PEGIDA. The Father says he and his wife have been abused and harassed since an “anti-racist” group named
The BBC has concluded Christianity features too prominently in its religious output in an internal review, insisting other faiths be given more airtime and resources. Both the Church of England and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – who are
A self-declared “Progressive, radical Anglocatholic Parish iPriest” has said he believes Labour’s anti-Semitism problems have been made up by the “right wing press” and that only conservatives are “racist”. The Reverend Simon Rundell, a Parish Priest in the Diocese of Exeter and card-carrying
The Church of England has been accused of taking a pro-European Union (EU) stance in the run-up to the Brexit referendum after publishing a prayer calling for the “peoples of Europe” to work together. The new prayer, posted on the
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has confirmed that he is the illegitimate son of a one-time private secretary to Winston Churchill, after a newspaper reported the discovery late Friday. Welby, the most senior figure in the Anglican Communion consisting
It is “absolutely outrageous” to dismiss people as racists if they fear mass immigration, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. As Europe witnesses a record influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, Justin Welby said the British
Calls have been made for a vicar to be barred from his local council meetings after he urged those who want to see Britain leave the EU not to stigmatise migrants. The comments came as he was supposedly leading the council
The Church of England faces at least another three decades of decline as its elderly population is dying off faster than young people are coming into the church. In an attempt to reverse the trend, the Church’s leadership is pinning
A play depicting Jesus Christ as a transgendered woman has been performed in a consecrated and active Church of England church in Manchester. Bishops have slammed the spectacle as “contrary to Christian teaching” and “inappropriate”. The play, ‘The Gospel According
Justin Welby, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury (pictured), has warned Anglican churches in Africa that they could suffer “consequences” for their support of the outlawing of sodomy. Uganda, Burundi, Nigeria and Rwanda all have anti-sodomy laws, and Anglican leaders in Uganda
From The Guardian: Attitudes to same-sex marriage within the pews of the Church of England are sharply at odds with the stance of its leadership, as for the first time more Anglicans are in favour of gay and lesbian couples
Britain might take in refugee children who have been displaced by the war in Syria and have travelled to other countries in Europe, a government minister said on Sunday. International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the government was considering whether it
Long known for its indifference to religion, Britain continues to become less and less religious, with a record 46 per cent of the UK adult population now espousing no religion whatsoever. A new survey by researchers at Lancaster University reveals
The Anglican Communion has banned the Episcopal Church of America from representing Anglicanism on interfaith and ecumenical bodies, from taking part in internal committees, and from having decision-making powers on policy and doctrine for a period of three years. The
The number of people attending Church of England services each week has dropped below one million for the first time, with Sunday attendance plunging to a record low of just 760,000. The figures from the church’s annual attendance survey show
The Archbishop of Canterbury has told his fellow church leaders within the Anglican Communion that they need to be Disciples of Christ if they want the Church to project a positive image in the world. His words were delivered at a
The Anglican Communion stands on the brink of a worldwide schism over the question of homosexuality, with liberals decrying the “vilification” of gay Christians and conservatives threatening to walk out on an international Anglican summit unless “godly order” is restored.
For the first time since the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church nearly half a millennium ago, Catholic vespers will be celebrated in the chapel of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace next month.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is facing the biggest challenge to his authority to date from within the Anglican Church, in a row on homosexuality which threatens to split the church. In a week’s time Anglican leaders from across the world
A Conservative Member of Parliament has slammed the Anglican Church for its hypocritical, liberal preaching on the migration crisis. He says the Church should be doing more to integrate newcomers into the British way of life, including teaching them about God.
The Church of England has vowed to fast-track black and ethnic minority clergy into positions of authority, accusing itself of institutional racism. The Church will identify a “talent pool” of ethnic minority clergy this year, who will be mentored with
The Bishop of Leeds has spoken out against the wall of silence surrounding the issue of Christian persecution worldwide, in the face of the ban on Christmas in three majority Muslim countries. But the Bishop himself has ignored the plight
In a house in Bradford, north England a scene is being played out that is as old as Christianity itself: the faithful gathering in a home to share fellowship and the gospel. The guests, some of whom have travelled from
The Church of England has appointed an advocate of naturism as its latest female bishop. Karen Gorham, who is currently Archdeacon of Buckingham, was brought up in a nudist family and even wrote a treatise praising naturism while a vicar
The United Kingdom’s largest cinema chains have refused to run a new ad commissioned by the Church of England promoting prayer ahead of screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens this winter.
The most senior bishop in the Church of England has said the Paris terror attacks made him “doubt” the presence of God. Justin Welby, who as Archbishop of Canterbury is de facto head of the Anglican Communion, the world’s third
Britain’s leading cinema chains have refused to screen an advert featuring the Lord’s Prayer, on the grounds that it could be offensive to people of other faiths or none. The Church of England, who commissioned the advert, called the decision
British Masterpiece series Downton Abbey is now “history,” but the popular show’s historical adviser says its executives banned any mention of Christianity in the drama—which would have been a central element in the lives of British aristocracy.
