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Join the Big Pancake Party on Shrove Tuesday 5th March The Flipping Marvellous Pancake Party is back! Get your Lent and Eastertide resources BBC to run a ‘Year of Beliefs’ Bishop responds to climate concerns raised by World Economic Forum Bishop welcomes Universal Credit announcement Church of England invests £35 million in new Christian communities...

Did you know that about one in eight British adults worry about not being able to afford enough food? Recent research carried out on behalf of the Church Urban Fund has found that food poverty is a growing issue, with more families using food banks and children going hungry during summer holidays without their free...

Last year was such a huge success that we’ve decided to do it all again! Thanks to so many of you who got cracking in the kitchen and served up a treat for your guests, we raised over £20,000 to help those imprisoned by the devastating effects of poverty and debt. This year we have whipped up some...

The Church of England has produced the Lent Pilgrim and Easter Pilgrim reflections series, both written by the Bishop of Oxford, Dr Steven Croft.   They are available at www.churchofengland.org/lent

The BBC is going to ‘shine a light’ on faith and spiritual values in Britain today by running a year of programmes dedicated to religion and ethics. The move comes a year after the BBC promised to ‘raise our game’ in the way that it treated religion.  That promise followed a year-long review of its...

The Bishop of Dudley, Graham Usher, has described a risk report, recently published by the World Economic Forum as ‘significant,’ warning that those in the world’s most deprived areas will be affected most severely by Climate Change. Bishop Graham said: “It is significant that the threats posed by climate change have been recognised by the...

Following comments by the Work and Pensions Secretary, Amber Rudd, on changes to Universal Credit, the Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler, who speaks for the Church of England on issues relating to children and young people, said: “As a just and compassionate society, we believe that every child is a blessing and deserves to be...

The Church of England is to fund a bold series of projects to spread the Christian faith – from a new congregation in a nightclub area to a weekday church – as part of a £35 million investment in mission. The biggest investment so far by the Church of England’s Renewal and Reform programme is...

The Church of England Pensions Board, Church Commissioners for England, Sweden’s Public Pension Funds Council on Ethics and other groups have recently jointly called for a global independent public classification system that monitors the safety risk of mining company tailings dams. The call follows the failing of the Vale dam in Brumadinho, Brazil and the...

The new Church of England service for transgender people has been criticised by more than 2000 clergy in an open letter. A big concern is the possible effect it could have on children. In all, 2,155 bishops, priests and lay people of the Church signed the letter, which condemns the recent guidance that the C...

The General Synod has given overwhelming backing to new guidance which will help Church of England congregations to share mission and ministry more easily with a range of churches in their areas. Members voted in February in favour of a code of practice giving guidance to bishops, clergy, lay workers and Church of England Readers...

In the 1960s, it was said UK entry to the “Common Market” would mark the end of a thousand years of British history.  Fast-forwarding to 2019, the clock is now ticking rapidly towards the end of British membership of the European Union.  Where are we, and where are we going on Brexit? Brexit is a...