Culture

(Photo: Church of England) The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) has expressed its “deep disappointment” on the General Synod’s vote to proceed the method in direction of introducing standalone companies of blessing for same-sex {couples}.  Monday’s vote additionally noticed the Church of England transfer nearer to eradicating present restrictions on clergy being […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) Terrorist assaults have pressured a denomination to shut 70 church buildings in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, whereas within the nation’s northwest, Christians are celebrating the discharge of a kidnapped priest. The Rev. Amos Mohzo, president of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), instructed Christian Daily International-Morning Star News that assaults […] More

(Photo: iStock/Andrei_R) A nationwide marketing campaign has been launched within the run-up to the overall election asking parliamentary candidates to face in opposition to assisted suicide. Right to Life UK is mobilising voters to contact their native MP candidates and ask them to signal the End of Life Protection Pledge.  The pledge […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) I’m wondering should you’ve ever had a tour of the parliament at Westminster? Back in 2015, after the General Election that yr, I used to be lucky sufficient to be proven spherical by an excellent pal who was working for a Christian MP on the time. We went by way of Westminster […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) Jewish educational and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster displays on the idea of the stranger and what it means to like them in Judaism. Who is the stranger in Judaism? A clue could also be given by one definition of ‘neighbour’ mentioned in my earlier article on the topic. Loving your neighbour […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) A senior Church of England cleric has praised journalists and TV and radio programme-makers for his or her work “within the seek for fact.” Opening the celebrated Sandford St Martin Awards for one of the best in programmes about faith, ethics and spirituality, Dr Mark Oakley, Dean of Southwark, celebrated the work […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) I had a dream final night time. In it I discovered myself ushered into Number 10 Downing Street, surprisingly as the brand new Prime Minister. I handed a line of women and men respectfully acknowledging me and was proven into an oak-panelled room. As I sat down behind an unlimited desk, an […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) Western civilisation is constructed upon a basis of Christianity. It is not any coincidence that as Christianity fades within the West so do these values which have distinguished the West: tolerance, freedom of conscience, the worth of all life and private duty. Those values which now we have taken with no consideration […] More

Destruction in Batnaya, Iraq(Photo: Aid to the Church in Need) The author of the Letter to the Hebrews reminds Christians that they’re surrounded by an incredible “cloud of witnesses.” (NRSV) That “cloud” has continued to develop in dimension since then. In this month-to-month column we will likely be desirous about among the individuals and […] More

Pupils on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, circa 1900.(Photo: Creative Commons) For most Native American youngsters within the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, schooling was neither a proper nor a privilege. Indigenous youngsters from Florida to Alaska have been taken away, typically by power, to residential colleges run by the […] More

Gateway Church Pastor Robert Morris speaks on March 21, 2020.(Photo: Gateway Church) (CP) The Board of Elders of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, introduced Tuesday that the megachurch’s founder, Robert Morris, has resigned, they usually have retained a regulation agency to research a declare made by a lady who alleges Morris sexually abused her […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) Ant-Man star Paul Rudd has confessed he would most like to satisfy Jesus if given the possibility.  The 55 yr previous, who’s Jewish, selected Jesus when requested by a reporter for IGV Presents who he would most like to talk if he may select anybody in historical past.  “Anyone from historical past, who […] More