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A ‘Santiago of the North’ has been launched, encouraging people to walk ancient pilgrimage routes to Durham dating back more than 1,000 years. Around 30 churches in the dioceses of Durham and Newcastle are part of four revived pilgrimage routes starting from villages and towns in the region, re-creating the routes taken by pilgrims to...

The Church of England has published guidance for parishes and cathedrals amid concerns over memorials with links to slavery and other contested heritage. The new guidance enables churches and cathedrals to consider the history of the buildings and congregations, and to engage with everyone in their community to understand how physical artefacts may impact their...

The Church Commissioners for England recently announced their goal to reduce the carbon intensity of its investment portfolio by 25% by 2025. The Commissioners focus on using their influence as a responsible investor to engage companies and policy makers on setting and supporting net zero targets, thus bringing more constituents of its portfolio on to...

All We Can and the Methodist Church in Britain’s joint Emergency Coronavirus Appeal are providing essential support to vulnerable communities in India. The country, home to 1.3 billion people, is currently in the grips of a deadly wave of Covid-19. Hospitals are unable to cope with the ever-increasing number of cases,  oxygen supplies are scarce, and...

What began as an amusing way to keep up with the seven teenagers in her congregation is now serious outreach for the Revd Anne Beverley of Christ Church in Wesham, Lancashire. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, the first lockdown brought with it a need to stay in touch with the teenagers in her congregation, so...

Churches to launch nature count within the ‘National Park’ of churchyards Churches stepped up support for their communities during pandemic New ‘Vision’ as Church of England engages with Further Education Colleges Archbishop of York’s Presidential Address to General Synod Church Commissioners to reduce carbon intensity of its portfolio by 2025 From Lament to Action: Anti-Racism...

Hundreds of churches have signed up to a week-long ‘nature count’ occurring this month (June), which will encourage people to visit churchyards and record what they see. Churches Count on Nature, to run between 5th-13th June, is a citizen-science event covering churchyards across England and Wales. Communities and visitors will be asked to make a...

More than 4,000 Church of England parishes have stepped up their support to local communities in the face of rising levels of poverty, loneliness and isolation since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research. Church volunteers have delivered food, shopped, walked dogs and collected prescriptions this past year, according to a report by the Church...

The Church of England has recently launched a new ‘Vision for Further Education’, which calls for a major shift in its engagement with the sector. The report, Vocation, Transformation & Hope, highlights three themes, exploring how further education (FE) makes a significant difference to people’s sense of vocation, their personal transformation, and their hope for society. The...

It was “sobering and shameful” for the Church of England to be “confronted by the recent Panorama documentary”, which looked at “a number of shockingly specific instances where sisters and brothers in Christ have experienced racism in the Church of England.” So said the Archbishop of York in his recent Presidential Address to the General Synod. He...

The Church Commissioners for England have announced their goal to reduce the carbon intensity of their investment portfolio by 25% by 2025. The 25% reduction target, based on a baseline of 2019, is “a realistic goal in our mission to create real world change to transition to a net zero global economy.” The Church Commissioners...

The Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce recently published its report, From Lament to Action, which proposes a suite of changes designed alter the culture of the Church of England. It issues a warning to the Archbishops that a failure to act could be a “last straw” for many people of UK Minority Ethnic (UKME) or Global Majority...