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This year, Animal Welfare Sunday falls on Sunday 5th October, which is the nearest Sunday to St Francis’ feast day on Saturday 4th. It is a good opportunity to thank God for the animals, and to consider how we might help them. Christians have been involved in animal welfare reform throughout history. For example, even...

Some parents aren’t sure quite what to feel about Hallowe’en – is it just harmless fun, or are there aspects of it that don’t fit in with how we want to see the world? A child’s christening service is very honest about the reality of good and evil, and Hallowe’en can be a good time...

The BBC One’s The One Show recently interviewed Chldren’s Society’s CEO Mark Russell, on a growing crisis affecting families across the UK: the soaring cost of school uniforms. Russell reported that a new poll by The Children’s Society has found that more than two in five children (44%) have experienced negative consequences due to school...

Pastors in the Ukraine are continuing to minister to their beleaguered congregations, bringing comfort and hope into the most frightening and desperate war-torn situations. So says Transform Europe Network, a Christian ministry which serves alongside indigenous Christians in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In a recent report, it gives an update from one of its...

For where two or three gather in My name, there am I with them.” (Matthew 18:20) You can get most things whenever you want these days. We had three services recently in one day at our local church. Not much to brag about I suppose, but for us in small rural village it was encouraging....

The UK arm of the Navigators turns 70 this year. It has been celebrating its work in the UK with a national roadshow that stretches from Glasgow to Southampton. The Navigators was first founded in 1933 by an American evangelist, Dawson Trotman, who ministered to sailors in the US Navy. Due to his efforts, 135...

The number of C of E ordination candidates entering residential training has fallen from 218 to 65 in the decade to 2024. Seven of the ten colleges had fewer than ten new students at the beginning of the last academic year.

Is Gen Z coming to church? Children’s Society gives an urgent warning 150 years of the Keswick Convention Premier Christian Radio – the first Christian broadcaster to Britain How do persecuted Christians cope with the stress? Danny Kruger’s extraordinary speech in the House of Commons Not leaving your dog on its own – even for...

Could it be true that a Quiet Revival (as the report is called) is taking place?  Another reasonably large survey commissioned by the Bible Society’s research team suggests it could be. In March 2025 Bible Society repeated a survey they had carried out in 2018, asking 13,000 people if they went to church (It was...

Thousands of children across the UK are being exploited to move money for criminals.  Some are only 15 years old. So warns the Children’s Society. In a recent report, it has highlighted what is going on behind closed doors. Young people “are being tricked, pressured and groomed into handing over their bank details, receiving transfer...

 An iconic Christian convention is celebrating 150 years this year. From the humble beginnings of a vicar holding a meeting on his vicarage lawn back in 1875, the Keswick Convention now runs a year-round Christian teaching ministry and attracts 15,000 to its annual three-week summer convention. The Keswick Convention was the brainchild of Canon Thomas...

Christian broadcasting was not always allowed in this country. As late as the mid-1980s, Christians were petitioning Parliament and the broadcast regulator to allow Christian broadcasting to begin in the UK. Finally, it happened, and in 1990 the law was changed. Five years later, in the summer of 1995, Premier Christian Radio was launched. The...