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LINCOLN CATHEDRAL will be celebrating a milestone in its musical history this weekend: the 30th anniversary of the introduction of girl choristers. They first sang on 21 November 1995, St Cecilia’s ...

CHRISTIANS in Palestine are both nourished and empowered by visits to the Holy Land, the Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Revd Hosam Naoum, said on the final day of the Archbishop of York’s ...

ISRAEL has committed “genocidal acts” in Gaza, and the situation in the occupied West Bank amounts to “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing”, the Archbishop of York has said. Archbishop Cottrell used the ...

IN 1969, Michael Stancliffe arrived from St Margaret’s, Westminster as the new Dean of Winchester. Three years later, he invited his former organist from St Margaret’s, Martin Neary, to join him. By ...

THE Consistory Court of the diocese of Carlisle has granted a faculty, despite the opposition of the diocesan advisory committee (DAC), for a hatchment to be hung in St Michael’s, Bowness-on-Solway, ...

A FOOD pantry based in a historic church in Norwich must find alternative accommodation by the end of the month, after its operators, St Giles Trust, decided not to renew the lease. St Saviour’s, ...

THE Church in Wales will vote in 2027 on allowing same-sex marriage in church, after a decision taken by the Bench of Bishops this week. In a pastoral letter released on Thursday morning, the Bishops ...

AS A Roman Catholic child living on the Franco-German border, I learned the language of faith long before I understood its meaning. Words such as “holy”, “glory”, and “virgin birth” were markings on a ...

MAYBE it was a Monty Python sketch that first introduced the idea of competitive grievance. Four Yorkshiremen tell stories of their deprived childhoods, each trumping the other in exaggerated ...

Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to [email protected] by 9 a.m., Monday 1 December. We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide ...

THE Church of England has been trying to tackle race-related issues for decades, with varying degrees of success. The latest round of initiatives stemmed from the Anti-Racism Taskforce, which was ...