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The Church in Wales has announced investment totalling nearly £10m in four major projects designed to promote growth in church attendance across the nation. Projects in north east Wales, in Swansea and in Monmouth will be given multi-million-pound grants to develop new initiatives, centres and church communities. The grants are being made from the Church...

Open Doors has launched a new tool for families and churches, aimed at explaining religious persecution in an age-appropriate way. Herod’s Secret Policeman is a children’s story book and animated video which tells the fictional tale of Secret Policeman Number 3 (and his toy sheep, Nellie), of the people he met on the journey, and...

As Christmas approaches, the charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is warning that “Poverty has become more ruthless than ever. There are rarely simple solutions anymore. Families can’t afford to live, let alone repay debt, as incomes don’t cover the basics.” CAP tells the story of Bea, one of its clients. “Like nearly half of CAP’s...

The Revd Mark Birch has been appointed by HM The King as a Canon of Westminster and by Sir Lindsay Hoyle as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. Mark has been a Minor Canon at Westminster Abbey since January 2015. He has been responsible to the Dean of Westminster for the daily...

Sir Paul Marshall, a member of Holy Trinity Brompton in London, says he is “delighted” to have bought the world’s oldest current affairs magazine, The Spectator, for £100 million. The hedge fund tycoon and GB News investor outbid 20 other hopefuls to buy the right-leaning political title, first published in 1828. Marshall, who has been...

Richard Osman, game-show-host-turned-best-selling novelist, writes books in the genre called ‘cosy crime’. In these stories, a murder has been committed and a sleuth sets out to discover whodunnit. But this isn’t gritty noir. There’s usually a pleasant rural setting and an amateur detective, and the bloodless murder is rarely dwelt upon. Most importantly, there’s a...

The number of students entering the Church Mission Society (CMS) Pioneer Mission Training programme has this year risen to record levels, enhanced by the enrolment of a cohort of students from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). At a time when many Christian training colleges are struggling to attract new students, a total of 45...

Editor:  We apologise for the rather ‘scarce’ stories this month.  This is because it was written in late summer, when church organisations are at their most quiet. We will offer a wider selection of church-based stories for next month! ** The world’s migrants are mostly Christians How can Christians first back against disinformation? Women’s Leadership...

A new analysis of data by the Pew Research Centre in Washington DC has found that of the more than 280 million people, or 3.6% of the world’s population, who are currently international migrants (living outside their country of birth), 47% of them are Christian. They are followed by Muslims (29% of all living migrants),...

Disinformation and fake news have helped fuel the recent riots and disorder taking place across parts of the UK. It’s just the latest example of how social media can impact all of our lives. Media campaigning charity Full Fact declared “The disorder we’ve seen, triggered at least in part by false claims circulating on social...

Women are increasingly represented in church leadership across many denominations. Some have had women in leadership right from the start, like the Salvation Army, while the Roman Catholics and the Orthodox still have none. The Church of England ordained women in 1994, and since then their numbers have increased every year since 2000. The average...

Do you know that in Kenya, many parents and caregivers struggle to provide their children with even one meal a day? As a response to the need, the Kisumu Children Trust has long been feeding as many desperately hungry children as it can in the Kisumu area of Kenya, where food is often scarce and...