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‘In person church attendance’ can fall by almost a third (29%) if a local church closes, a new opinion poll has found. The poll, commissioned by the National Churches Trust, revealed that when a local church closes, 22% of the churchgoers are unwilling or unable to worship in a different church. A further 7% said...

Hostility towards Christians is growing in India. In the past four years, almost 1700 people have been arrested under anti-conversion laws in one state, Uttar Pradesh, alone. And Uttar Pradesh is moving to tighten that law. A new bill increases the maximum penalty for fraudulent or forced conversion to 20 years with provision for life...

For whatsoever things were written … were written for our learning, that we through… comfort of the scriptures might have hope…  Romans 15:4 Many of our churches have old chests which are used to keep books in. I have been in two recently where the chests were older than the churches themselves! I do not...

A new film series, ‘Does God Care About My Work?’ has been launched by the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. It is designed to ‘help Christians discover why their work matters to God, and how they can make a difference with Him through their regular tasks.” More details at:  Licc.org.uk/ourresources.

 The Church Commissioners and Durham County Council are hoping to build 1435 new homes on jointly owned agricultural land. The land is near Newton Aycliffe, and the development would run to 97.1 hectares. The result would be a series of ‘interlinked neighbourhoods’ around a central ‘spine’ road, and would include a primary school and a...

Come back to our church on 29th September! End the ‘scandal’ of the need for food banks, General Synod hears Synod backs motion to affirm the human dignity of disabled children How are you? I hope you are well? Fewer priests ahead? Food is weaponised in Sudan Do not expect much from Iran’s new President...

Have you ever been to our church before? Perhaps for a wedding, a baptism, or funeral?  Or how about if you visited us even longer ago – when you were a child? Whoever you are, and whenever you came to us, we would love to see you back again on 29th September, which is Back...

The General Synod has backed a motion calling on the government and healthcare providers to ensure that parents of unborn children with a disability are given comprehensive and unbiased information and told what support is available to them. The motion was aiming to strengthen the church’s witness to the human dignity of all God’s children....

Everyone with me sends you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Titus 3:15 I sometimes receive emails from complete strangers who ask me how I am, and sometimes they add that they hope I am well. The person adds a ‘?’ although it is not a question...

The number of people offering themselves for ordination to the Church of England has fallen by 38 per cent since 2020. In the autumn of 2020, there were 591 men and women beginning ordination training. This autumn it will be about 370. The Ministry Council has said the goal is to secure a “stable” number...

The brutal civil war in Sudan has pushed the country to the brink of famine. And even food given by humanitarian agencies is now being used as a weapon in the conflict. So says the South Sudanese RC Bishop of Yei, the Rt Revd Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo, who says that both sides of the...

So says the charity Open Doors. It warns that the election of the cardiac surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian as the new ‘reformist’ President of Iran is not a signal that the lives of Christians are likely to improve, even though Pezeshkian has lived and studied in the United States. A persecution analyst with Open Doors’ World...