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Patrick Sookhdeo: The untold story of the battle for control of Barnabas
Patrick Sookhdeo: The untold story of the battle for control of Barnabas

Sookhdeo's struggle with the trustees of Barnabas Fund caused many of them serious mental trauma and cost the charity a large amount of money.

Church going millennials are defying our commitment-phobe stereotype
Church going millennials are defying our commitment-phobe stereotype

Millenials - we often get a hard time for being commitment-freaks who would fail to look beyond the next five minutes, but the church-going members of our generation are defying the odds.

Generous faith: Giving to charity a priority for millennial Christians
Generous faith: Giving to charity a priority for millennial Christians

Christians aged between 18 and 37 are "extremely generous" and giving to charity is a top priority for them, a new survey shows.

\'Let there be light\': How to read Genesis 1
'Let there be light': How to read Genesis 1

The first chapters of the book of Genesis are all too often made into a theological battleground.

Catholic nun excommunicated for being secretly ordained as a priest
Catholic nun excommunicated for being secretly ordained as a priest

A Roman Catholic nun has been excommunicated and dismissed from her religious order last week after admitting that she was secretly ordained as a priest earlier this year.

Faith groups must work together in the face of \'brazen persecution\' say religious leaders
Faith groups must work together in the face of 'brazen persecution' say religious leaders

Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis have written a joint article calling for people of different faiths to work together.

Why BiblicalGenderRoles.com does not represent the true Christian view of sex
Why BiblicalGenderRoles.com does not represent the true Christian view of sex

News outlets around the world have each picked up on a blog titled 'Biblical Gender Roles', a website which claims that men should not tolerate their wives refusing sex, and that husbands should invoke fear in their wives.

The camel and the needle: What did Jesus really mean?
The camel and the needle: What did Jesus really mean?

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Former bishop Heather Cook will serve seven years for fatal hit-and-run
Former bishop Heather Cook will serve seven years for fatal hit-and-run

Former Bishop of Maryland Heather Cook will serve seven years in prison for killing cyclist Tom Palermo

Sacked gay priest condemns \'homophobic hate\' of Catholic Church
Sacked gay priest condemns 'homophobic hate' of Catholic Church

Poland-born Krzysztof Charamsa, 43, wrote: "Today, I side with the fantastic people who are homosexual, for centuries humiliated by a fanatical Church. I no longer accept the salvation that excludes – without any foundation whatsoever – a part of humanity."

Donald Trump\'s Presbyterian and Ben Carson\'s Seventh-day Adventists: A description of 2 Christian faiths
Donald Trump's Presbyterian and Ben Carson's Seventh-day Adventists: A description of 2 Christian faiths

US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has decided to pit his Presbyterian faith against the Seventh-day Adventist beliefs of his chief rival, Ben Carson. At a rally on Saturday in Florida, Trump claimed that his Presbyterian faith is superior to his rival's Christian denomination, News Max reported.

Pope to issue post-Synod document on the \'joy of family\'
Pope to issue post-Synod document on the 'joy of family'

The Pope is expected to follow-up the three-week Synod on the Family with an exhortation on "the joy of the family"

Find an Evensong service near you: Cambridge chorister sets up Time Out-style Evensong guide
Find an Evensong service near you: Cambridge chorister sets up Time Out-style Evensong guide

A former choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge is launching a Time Out- style guide to choral evensong around the country.

Vicar saved from life-threatening disease after wife donates her own kidney
Vicar saved from life-threatening disease after wife donates her own kidney

Rev Matthew Baynes had been told he would spend the rest of his life on dialysis without a transplant.

\'It could have been a massacre\': Shell hits Aleppo church during Sunday service
'It could have been a massacre': Shell hits Aleppo church during Sunday service

Seven people were injured when the shell hit the Church of St Francis in the Azizyeh residential district.

Catholic leaders issue unprecedented appeal to UN on climate change
Catholic leaders issue unprecedented appeal to UN on climate change

Roman Catholic cardinals, patriarchs and bishops have issued an unprecedented appeal to the UN to produce a "truly transformational" agreement to tackle climate change when it meets at the long awaited conference in Paris.