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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...

Christians in Pakistan are considering how to rebuild their homes and churches in the aftermath of recent attacks on townships in Jaranwala, Punjab, following unsubstantiated allegations of blasphemy. Partners of UK-based Release International held services out of doors after mobs recently set fire to houses, churches and Bibles. Efforts are underway to galvanise emergency relief...

Eight months on from the devastating earthquakes that killed at least 58,000 people across southern Turkey and northwest Syria, Christian Aid has thanked the generosity of their supporters for raising over £3.4m to help “tens of thousands of people who lost their homes, livelihoods and loved ones.” Since the deadly earthquakes on 6th February, the...

‘Silver Sunday’ is 1st October – the ‘national day for older people’. So perhaps this is a good month to consider what churches can do to support their older people. Nearly one in five people in England and Wales is aged over 65. The over-70s currently make up around a third of the Church of...

How to fight back against artificial intelligence Come back to church! Chinese Christians learn in small groups – thanks to Bible Society Could you volunteer to help prisoners rebuild their lives this autumn? How China is increasing persecution of Christians Compassion for those in poverty – CAP Sunday 15th October Help more children get back...

I’ve been writing Christian comment columns for newspapers and radio for more than 30 years – but I had a shock when I asked an artificial intelligence computer programme to write one for me. The question that I posed was simple. Could an AI programme produce a column that would match up to one penned...

To encourage you to attend, how about if we offered: Beds – for those who say Sunday is their day to sleep-in. Safety helmets – for anyone who fears the roof would fall in if they entered a church door. Blankets and hot water bottles – for those who find our church too cold. Fans...