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Stories of Christians in action, both at home and around the world
- Almost two thirds of UK churches plan to carry on streaming online, even after restrictions lift. According to a recent survey by the insurance group Ecclesiastical and The Bible Society, 93 per cent of churches have used new ways to keep in touch with their congregation and over two in five churches (43 per cent)...Two thirds of churches in UK plan to keep streaming online, says survey
- I’m involved in a project rooted in the Church of England’s St Albans diocese, north of London. We bring together people from a range of backgrounds and faiths to address the question ‘Where is Truth now?’ A vital issue for us from recent months has been ‘How has truth fared during the pandemic? Here are...Five things we’ve learnt about Truth in the pandemic
- Prayer Walk 21 and OIKOS A celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Social Justice Iran set to intensify Christian persecution Five things we’ve learnt about Truth in the pandemic Hardship for those who rent ** Prayer Walk 21 and OIKOS Hope for Every Home, part of HOPE Together, has recently launched OIKOS, a new prayer...Looking at Church (all articles) for August 2021
- Hope for Every Home, part of HOPE Together, has recently launched OIKOS, a new prayer walking app, as part of Prayer Walk 21. You can find the app free in your app store under OIKOS Outreach. Hope says that: “During Covid and lockdown God has taken His church out of the building, reconnected people with...Prayer Walk 21 and OIKOS
- A four-day Bank Holiday from 2nd to 5th June 2022 will mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. This is being called “an amazing opportunity” to bring our communities together for the celebrations, which end on Pentecost Sunday. HOPE Together, the Church of England, the Methodist Church, Biblica and other key partners are currently planning for the...Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – a celebration of faith & service
- Young people today are often very concerned about social and political justice. The ‘Gen Z’ generation (those born in the 21st century) are especially worried about climate justice, as they would term it. They are conscious that over the next 50 to 80 years of their lives, the problems arising from not taking action now...Social Justice
- The persecution of Christians is set to intensify in Iran, following the election of hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi as the Islamic Republic’s new president. That is the warning from Release International, which is also urging Iran’s new president to allow full religious freedom and release all prisoners of faith. “This victory for the hardliners will mean...Iran set to intensify Christian persecution
- I’m involved in a project rooted in the Church of England’s St Albans diocese, north of London. We bring together people from a range of backgrounds and faiths to address the question ‘Where is Truth now?’ A vital issue for us from recent months has been ‘How has truth fared during the pandemic? Here are...Five things we’ve learnt about Truth in the pandemic
- Renters are struggling. 1.7 million renting households are worried about paying their rent over the next three months, and nearly one million are worried about being evicted during the same period. Such are the findings of recent research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). The JRF says that black, Asian and minority-ethnic renters, renters with...Hardship for those who rent
- Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Bishop challenges the BBC on its religious broadcasting The ‘must have’ magazine for anyone who loves Christian books. Opening and closing churches in the UK Can comedy point the way to faith? The value of making our church ‘common ground’ When someone you love is dying ** Editor: You may wish to...Looking at the Church (all articles) for July 2021
- A four-day Bank Holiday from 2-5 June 2022 will mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year. This is an amazing opportunity to bring our communities together for the celebrations, which end on Pentecost Sunday. HOPE Together, the Church of England, the Methodist Church, Biblica and other key partners are currently planning for the Queen’s Platinum...Queen’s Platinum Jubilee – a celebration of faith & service – save the date!
- A Church of England bishop has recently called on the BBC to be more imaginative in its religious broadcasting. The Bishop of Ripon, Helen-Ann Hartley, urged the BBC to go beyond ‘preaching to the converted’ to producing documentaries and dramas that challenge and inform people’s world views. Writing in a recent edition of Radio Times,...Bishop challenges the BBC on its religious broadcasting