Moment police shut down Good Friday service at Polish church in south London for breaching Covid rules as worshippers are threatened with £200 fines Officers shut down the religious ceremony in Balham High Street at around 5pm Worshippers were told the gathering was ‘unlawful’ and threatened £200 fines Guidance states communal worship is legal as … Read more
Explore England’s places of worship and you’ll find masterpieces of design, some of the world’s most beautiful stained-glass windows and a host of astonishing murals, monuments and carvings spanning over a thousand years of turbulent history – as a fascinating new book reveals. The National Churches Trust teamed up with prolific church photographer Matthew Byrne … Read more
Two suicide bombers believed to be members of a militant network with Islamic State allegiances have blown themselves up outside a church packed with Palm Sunday Mass parishioners in Indonesia. At least 20 church parishioners and security guards were injured in the blast outside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar on the island … Read more
Two suicide bombers believed to be members of a militant network with Islamic State allegiances have blown themselves up outside a church packed with Palm Sunday Mass parishioners in Indonesia. At least 20 church parishioners and security guards were injured in the blast outside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar on the island … Read more
Retired NRL star Sam Burgess has been photographed at an evangelical church on Queensland’s Gold Coast as he tries to turn his troubled personal life around. Burgess was spotted in Metro Church on Sunday, two days after he was cleared by a judge of intimidating his former father-in-law Mitch Hooke. ‘I just met this legend … Read more
Retired NRL star Sam Burgess has been photographed at an evangelical church on Queensland’s Gold Coast as he tries to turn his troubled personal life around. Burgess was spotted in Metro Church on Sunday, two days after he was cleared by a judge of intimidating his former father-in-law Mitch Hooke. ‘I just met this legend … Read more
Retired NRL star Sam Burgess has been photographed at an evangelical church on Queensland’s Gold Coast as he tries to turn his troubled personal life around. Burgess was spotted in Metro Church on Sunday, two days after he was cleared by a judge of intimidating his former father-in-law Mitch Hooke. ‘I just met this legend … Read more
Church of England will order 30% quota for BAME clergy as leaked report demands ‘repentance’ for historic links to the slave trade and anti-racism training Church of England to introduce 30 per cent quota for ethnic minority clergy Currently, only one of 42 diocesan bishops come from BAME backgrounds Report calls on the Church to ‘deal … Read more
Church of England will order 30% quota for BAME clergy as leaked report demands ‘repentance’ for historic links to the slave trade and anti-racism training Church of England to introduce 30 per cent quota for ethnic minority clergy Currently, only one of 42 diocesan bishops come from BAME backgrounds Report calls on the Church to ‘deal … Read more
Rev Mark Edwards had called for clarity after claims made by the Duchess of Sussex in her interview with Oprah have caused confusion Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘garden wedding’ was no more than a ‘private conversation’ with the Archbishop of Canterbury, a vicar who investigated the matter has claimed. Rev Mark Edwards decided to … Read more