Church Mission Society announces new chief executive
Strategist Alastair Bateman has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of the Church Mission Society.
Strategist Alastair Bateman has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of the Church Mission Society.
Around 250 black majority churches are believed to operate in the borough of Southwark, where 16 per cent of the population identifies as having African ethnicity.
The Bishop of Dudley is encouraging churchgoers to get involved in a major month-long campaign to clear Britain of litter this spring.
Her original death sentence was overturned last October but the court allowed an appeal by religious hardliners.
Pope Francis on Sunday definitively ruled out any chance that he would change the Roman Catholic rule requiring priests to be celibate.
The church is highly influential and an important source of moral guidance in the Philippines, where about 80 per cent of a population of 105 million are Roman Catholic.
The Catholic Church has rejected calls to excommunicate New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after he pushed through a radical abortion bill legalising terminations up to birth.
The Church of Scotland has said it is 'deeply disturbed' by a brutal crackdown being waged against protesters opposed to fuel price rises in Zimbabwe.
Coded documents left by one of the founders of the modern missionary movement have been deciphered by a student at the University of St Andrews.
Philippines security forces investigating a deadly twin bombing at a church on a predominantly Muslim southern island are zeroing in on what they say is an affiliate of the militant Abu Sayyaf Group.
Organisers said about 700,000 people attended the closing mass of World Youth Day.
The Church of England has said it will give 'serious consideration' to a letter signed by over 1,600 clergy and church wardens in opposition to its latest guidance on transgenderism.
The Philippines vowed to destroy those behind twin bombings that killed 20 people during a Sunday church service in the country's restive south.