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Remembering Ukraine – one year on The gates of hell Church leaders protest over Cumbrian mine Fairtrade Fortnight 2023 Caring for your family Sometimes it is wise to retreat Church Commissioners to vote against failure on human rights  ** Remembering Ukraine – one year on 24th February is the first anniversary of the war in...

24th February is the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which has seen nearly eight million people displaced and thousands killed. This winter is the worst in living memory for most Ukrainians, with medicine, food, water, and heating in short supply. If you would like to mark the first year by helping the people...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has “opened the gates of hell” and unleashed evil around the world. So said the Archbishop of Canterbury during a recent interview on BBC1’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. He told of how, during his recent visit to Ukraine, he had seen the mass grave in Bucha, and heard of the...

More than 450 church leaders and Christian campaigners have recently signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling for a reversal on the Government’s decision to open a new coal mine in Cumbria. The mine, near Whitehaven, would be the first in Britain for more than 30 years. But the campaigners say that while...

This year Fairtrade Fortnight runs 27th February to 12th March. It comes with a sombre reminder: climate change means that soon some of our favourite foods, such as bananas, cocoa and coffee could be harder to grow. And if that is combined with deeply unfair trade, then communities growing these crops will be pushed to...

Valentine’s Day is for February, but love is for all year round, and that is not always easy.  Relationships have their ups and downs, and sometimes a bit of encouragement helps a lot. So this year, you may find Care for the Family to be worth a visit. Its blog, podcasts and other resources offer...

Lent is supposed to prepare us for Easter, but making time for spiritual reflection in our busy lives can be hard. One solution is to take a short retreat, at one of the many retreat houses or centres around the country. It has been said that “Retreats are for ordinary people at any time in...

The Church Commissioners for England is to begin to vote against companies that fail to meet its expectations on human rights. A leading responsible investor, the Church Commissioners will use its vote as a shareholder to ensure international human rights norms are respected by the companies in which it invests. The Church Commissioners will also...

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Church leaders in Ukraine have expressed their doubts about any meaningful peace talks with Russia, after a fresh wave of missile strikes in recent weeks. The primate of Ukraine’s independent Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphany (Dumenko) said: “Our continuing struggle will certainly be crowned with success with God’s help – we are fighting for our homeland’s...

Christianity is facing an ‘existential threat’ in parts of the Middle East, as many communities have dwindled to mere shadows of their former selves. A recent study of Christian persecution by the RC charity Aid to the Church In Need has found that nearly 75 years on from the creation of the state of Israel,...

More than four million people in the UK are now being forced to borrow money to cover the cost of essentials, such as heating and food. Christians Against Poverty (CAP) say that a poll carried out for them by YouGov has found that nearly one fifth of adults in the UK, or about ten million...