EXTREME weather, including flooding and heatwaves, has caused at least $41 billion (£32 billion) of damage to the global economy in the past six months, Christian Aid has estimated.

BELLS rang out, beacons were lit, and thousands of people took part in services and ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, on 6 June 1944, which changed the course of the ...

A SOUTH AFRICAN psychologist, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, who served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), is this year’s winner of the £1.1-million Templeton Prize.

Since the Pensions Board and Church Commissioners disinvested from Shell, BP, and other oil and gas firms a year ago ( News, 23 June 2023 ), investor engagement — as well as now focusing on the ...

Currently the Archdeacon of Lewisham and Greenwich, Archdeacon Cutting was announced as the new Bishop at the Garry Weston Library, in Southwark Cathedral. He began by paying tribute to the “dynamism, ...

The total endowment fund was valued at £10.4 billion at the end of 2023 — up from £10.3 billion at the end of 2022 ( News, 2 June 2023 ). The Commissioners’ ongoing target is to match or exceed a ...

“The mandate of the current ARCIC is decision-making and moral (ethical) discernment. This is obviously a highly controversial issue for both sides, with deep divisions on human sexuality found among ...

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams is among ten bishops who signed an open letter, “Faith in Fairer Taxes”, on Tuesday, which calls on them to help shift the narrative on tax and work ...

Kenneth Wilson was talking to Terence Handley MacMath. Highway Cello is published by City Village Books at £10.95 (Church Times Bookshop £9.85); 978-1-7393182-0-8.

That was “a justification worthy of weight”, the Chancellor said, particularly since those four paintings could be stored in the church in a way that continued to allow them to be appreciated. In that ...

GIFTS are not an uncontentious thing. The worst gift that I ever received was underwear from my mother-in-law. I am not against the idea entirely, though it was not the most enjoyable present to open ...

A KNEELER representing the life and work of Jane Austen has been completed by the embroiderers of Winchester Cathedral, after a special request and donation from the bestselling author Tracy Chevalier ...