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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...

‘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...