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More than 3,000 people have been killed by Morocco’s recent devastating earthquake. There have been dozens of aftershocks already since the 6.8 magnitude quake. The Christian community in Morocco is small, but determined to help. Believers have rushed to donate blood to help the injured. The Barnabas Fund’s Christian project partners in Morocco want to...

The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has recently written to every police force in the country to say that silent prayer near abortion facilities is not a crime. In the letter she writes that “silent prayer, within itself, is not unlawful.”  And that “holding lawful opinions, even if those opinions may offend others, is not a...

A minister whose mother and 19 relatives were murdered by terrorists a decade ago has told how he has resisted feelings of revenge and hatred. The Revd Aftab Gohar said he found peace through the teachings of Jesus Christ, following a double suicide bomber attack at All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan on 22nd September,...

A group of cross-party peers, MPs and religious educators has criticised the lack of funding for the teaching of religious education (RE).  It has called on the Government to address the crisis in teaching and recruitment. There were 30 signatories to a letter to the Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan. They described the...

Millions of children, some as young as ten, are worried that they will not have enough money for their future. So reports the annual Good Childhood Report from the Children’s Society. The recently published report found that more than one third of ten-to-17-year-olds said that they were either ‘very’ or ‘quite’ worried about having enough...

Since 2000 the Church of England (C of E) has been collecting and publishing details about its Cathedrals. The attendance figures are vivid reminders of the effects of Covid-19. In the seven years from 2013 to 2019, the average total annual regular attendance in the C of E Cathedrals was 511,000 people. Three years later, in...

There are storms coming this winter. So warns Ecclesiastical Insurance. And so it has been giving advice on how to prevent damage to property during the coming storm season.  Its recommendations include removing loose roof materials, repairing damaged guttering, and clearing blocked rainwater gullies. According to the Association of British Insurers, last year’s storms led...

After the wildfires in Hawaii Animal Welfare Sunday is 1st October Prisons Week – 8th-14th October 29th October – Bible Sunday as Ukrainians request more Bibles Christians in Pakistan recovering after attack by mobs Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal: Christian Aid thanks supporters  Helping the older people in church ** After the wildfires in Hawaii A pastor...

A pastor at a chapel on the Hawaiian island of Maui has spoken of the terrible day that strong wildfires swept through many homes on the island. Pastor Kirk Milhoan, from Calvary Chapel in the south of the island, recently told Premier Christian News that on the day, everyone was ‘in the dark’, with no...

Animals suffer. All over the world. One way in which you could help them is to support the work of The Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals (ASWA), which has been working for more than 30 years to promote animal welfare, and to make “Christians and others aware of the need to care for...

Prisoners and their families need help, if they are to really repair and rebuild their lives. And so it is that Prisons Week has been growing steadily, year by year. It currently has 25 Christian denominations and organisations working together to use “all our skills and gifts to see God’s kingdom come and His peace...

The war in Ukraine has led to a dramatic rise in the demand for Bibles, as people ask existential questions about life and death. The Ukrainian Bible Society reports that, in the last 15 months, some 700,000 Bibles have been distributed across the war-torn country. This is a five-fold increase on numbers handed out before the...