A CAMPAIGN to raise awareness of the legal duty to refer safeguarding concerns to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is being rolled out by the DBS across south-eastern England. The campaign, ...

DESPITE polling heralded as revealing a “quiet revival”, the Church of England is — by almost every measure and in almost every diocese — smaller than it was in 2018, this year’s Statistics for ...

THE Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith process, begun more than eight years ago in hopes of achieving a consensus on sexuality (News, 17 February 2017), has come under fire from both ...

THE Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament is expected to send the draft Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) back to the General Synod for further consideration rather than approve its passage into law. As ...

SIX years ago, after an hour’s debate, the General Synod voted almost unanimously to call on the Church of England to speak out publicly against racism directed against Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers ...

PEOPLE used to die. Now, it seems, they pass away. Or — say it quickly and quietly enough no one will even notice — they just pass. Media outlets report the passing of someone famous. Undertakers now ...

LAST MONTH, I went to the UnHerd Club, in central London, to be told that we can expect at least 23,000 deaths a year in the coming conflict between groups based in the Islamist cities and those whose ...

THE “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”, the long-awaited Makin review has concluded.

COMPENSATION of £3000 has been offered to each of those affected by the data breach that revealed the email addresses of those who had signed up for updates on the Church of England’s Redress Scheme ...

TWO-THIRDS of church choirs have no members under 18 — a figure that rises to 80 per cent in villages and rural areas, an RSCM survey of church musicians’ fees has found. An ageing singing population ...

AN ANGLICAN priest who established a breakaway church in Cardiff was inadequately prepared for his responsibilities in the Church in Wales, having being appointed to lead a city-centre resource church ...

WHEN John Clarkson was Governor of Sierra Leone in the late 18th century, he named a waterfront settlement in the centre of the country’s capital after his fiancée, Susan Lee. It was a lovely gesture ...