Church

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.

Pentagon \'used Christian aid group to spy on North Korea\'
Pentagon 'used Christian aid group to spy on North Korea'

An investigation claims that HISG received funding from the Pentagon connected to espionage in the secretive state.

Another evangelical church demolished in Muslim-majority Sudan
Another evangelical church demolished in Muslim-majority Sudan

There are growing fears for Christians in Sudan after another church was destroyed.

Obama urged to hold Indonesia to account over religious persecution
Obama urged to hold Indonesia to account over religious persecution

Religious intolerance should be high on the agenda in President Obama's meetings with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, a religious freedom charity has said.

First female Lord Spiritual looks forward to a woman Archbishop of Canterbury
First female Lord Spiritual looks forward to a woman Archbishop of Canterbury

Bishop Rachel Treweek, who is to take a seat in the House of Lords today, has said she would like a woman to be Archbishop of Canterbury.

20 things you\'ll never hear in church
20 things you'll never hear in church

Church life is rich, varied and can be very funny.

Pope Francis calls for prayerful and practical response to refugees: \'The Church does not abandon them\'
Pope Francis calls for prayerful and practical response to refugees: 'The Church does not abandon them'

Pope Francis drew the attention of the Bishops at the synod to the refugees once more, speaking in St. Peter's Square to call for a continued response in prayer and practical work to the refugee crisis during Angelus prayer.

Australian bishop says he was abused by bishop and senior clergyman
Australian bishop says he was abused by bishop and senior clergyman

Bishop Greg Thompson spoke out after his diocese apologised for its "shameful" treatment of abuse survivors.

The five best husbands in the Bible
The five best husbands in the Bible

Scripture gives us lots of examples of people who behaved badly, but also those who behaved really, really well.

Christian vloggers Sam and Nia announce pregnancy to shocked family and friends
Christian vloggers Sam and Nia announce pregnancy to shocked family and friends

The announcement has thrilled their thousands of YouTube followers.

Kong Hee\'s first appearance at City Harvest after fraud verdict: \'Pastor is sorry\'
Kong Hee's first appearance at City Harvest after fraud verdict: 'Pastor is sorry'

City Harvest Church's pastor Kong Hee apologised to his congregation yesterday.

\'God is not to be seen as male\' says top woman bishop
'God is not to be seen as male' says top woman bishop

Bishop of Gloucester Rachel Treweek, who will be inaugurated as one of 26 bishops in the Lords later today, said: "God is not to be seen as male. God is God."

Stop the talking. It is decision time for the Anglican Communion, says Archbishop
Stop the talking. It is decision time for the Anglican Communion, says Archbishop

In his latest pastoral letter, Kenya Archbishop Eliud Wabukala says: "There is now a shared realisation that the time for dialogue is over and there must be a decision that will settle the future direction of the Communion and free us from being dragged down by controversy and confusion."