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World Vision reports severe drought, flooding, and food shortages in Middle East and Afghanistan
BIBLICAL accounts of families crossing lands to escape food shortages found contemporary echoes in 2025, with hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and Afghanistan displaced by drought and hunger, World Vision…
The Epiphany
Isaiah 61.1-6; Psalm 72 (1-9) 10-16; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2.1-12THE festival of the Epiphany preserves its Greek name in the Western Church. By the second century, it was beginning to be kept as a feast on 6 January. It…
Criticism on both sides for Bishops’ latest LLF announcement on sexuality and the Church
DELAY to the House of Bishops’ final decision on the next steps in the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process (News, 16 December) has been criticised by campaigners on both sides of the argument.The national director of the…
Cardinal Nichols to be succeeded by Bishop Richard Moth as Archbishop of Westminster
THE next Archbishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Vincent Nichols, is to be the Bishop of Arundel & Brighton, the Rt Revd Richard Moth. He will be installed in Westminster Cathedral on Sunday 14 February, it was…
Restored bells at St Giles’s, Killamarsh, in need of a band of ringers
A CHURCH where one of the most influential change-ringing methods in the world originated now has restored bells, but no band of ringers. The Killamarsh Treble Bob was developed at St Giles’s, Killamarsh, and celebrated at an…
Investment in nature and biodiversity is a ‘priority’, Church Commissioners say
THE Church Commissioners have reiterated their commitment to supporting nature and enhancing biodiversity. In their report, Spotlight on Nature, they acknowledge nature loss as “a core responsible investment priority and a…
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Man awaits trial after memorial tree felledA 26-YEAR-OLD man, Dylan McNamara, of Bruce Glazier Terrace, Shottery Colliery, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal damage at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court on…
Researchers probe feelings of the sublime in spiritual and historical sites
RESEARCHERS at Stanford University have created “acoustic models” of some of the world’s best-known spiritual and historical sites, to explore the experience of transcendence hundreds or thousands of years ago. They include…
Czechs put faith in 3D-printed church
THE designer of a church that is being built using 3D-printing technology in the Czech Republic has spoken about the decorative and acoustic possibilities of this method of construction. “At first, our team planned to print…
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