CHRISTIAN VISION, an ecumenical NGO in Belarus, has reported a new crackdown on Christian communities: it says that church members of various denominations have been arrested or barred from the ...

MEMBERS of the public are being invited to take part in a consultation on the new national safeguarding organisation for the Church of England which seeks to “address long-standing concerns regarding ...

THERE are few industries that are at once both so essential to modern life and yet potentially so destructive of it as mining. The extractive industries underlie and make possible almost every aspect ...

Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 4 May. We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a ...

THE calling to walk alongside people in their journey of faith has never been limited to ordained or licensed lay ministers. Over the past 30 years, training for spiritual directors, who may also be ...

SERVING the people of God is a complex mixture of pressure and pleasure, success and failure, progress and setbacks. It was ever thus; if you doubt that, try reading the letters of St Paul. Many ...

RESEARCHERS working for the charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide found that there had been a significant increase in 2025 in violations of religious freedom in Nicaragua. These included threats, ...

Prison chaplaincy is an area of vocation available to serving clergy, Readers, and Church Army evangelists. Huw Spanner hears about what is involved IT IS understandable, when there is a chronic ...

A PRIEST who completed the 192-mile Coast to Coast walk has said that, while undertaking the challenge, he was “more reliant on Jesus in a different way”. The Vicar of Ranmoor, in Sheffield diocese, ...

TWO days before his death, aged 62, on 29 April, 1951, Ludwig Wittgenstein sent a farewell message to close friends in England: “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” In some ways, he had, despite the ...

BISHOPS in London have expressed their “solidarity” with the Jewish community, saying that they “condemn unequivocally” the “abhorrent” anti-Semitic attacks in the capital, after another suspected ...

This week’s selection: a reflection on the figure of St John Henry Newman; an exploration of the Orthodox Church in late Imperial Russia; and an examination of the realities of ministry “Conscience ...