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Welsh focus in special evensong at St James’s Palace
SUN through stained glass in the chapel of St James’s Palace lent its lustre to the service of choral evensong in honour of St David and to inaugurate the new Royal Chaplaincy for Wales, on Wednesday of last week.The first…
Kensal Green church goes step-free after 182 years
AFTER 182 years, St John’s, Kensal Green, has become step-free thanks to a growing partnership between the church and Westminster City Council.The new access will allow people in wheelchairs to enter independently. The London…
Debt-advice service at Jarrow church helps people to manage £1 million in debt since Covid
A DEBT-advice service set up to alleviate hardship in the parish of Jarrow and Simonside after the Covid pandemic has helped people to manage more than £1 million of debt so far. Supported by the diocese of Durham and…
Donate this Lent: Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) is open
LENT progresses to the halfway point, and the Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund appeal remains open for donations. In 2026, TAP is returning to its roots, and will once again support those exploring a calling to serve in…
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Tom Holland becomes Bede Librarian at Durham Cathedral THE historian and podcaster Tom Holland has been appointed the first Bede Librarian at Durham Cathedral. To inaugurate this new honorary position, he will speak on…
‘Interfaith work has failed — we need to move to action’ says Israeli professor
INTERFAITH work has failed to contain animosity between communities over the past five years, and the Church of England lacks status in Israel, an Israeli professor has suggested this week.Professor Uriel Simonsohn is senior…
Faith and therapy are not at odds
WHEN the former Archbishop of Canterbury the Rt Revd Justin Welby spoke recently about his mental health (Quotes, 6 March), his honesty was striking.Speaking to Gyles Brandreth on the podcast Rosebud, he reflected on the…
Analysis: Positions vacant in ‘fragile churches’
MEDIAN all-age weekly attendance at a Church of England church in 2024 was 26, down from 34.5 in 2019, Statistics for Mission reported (News, 31 October 2025). This means that half or more of our churchgoers are in…
Events are not bending to Trump’s will
IN A week of confusion about the war on Iran, there was one great moment of moral clarity. It was delivered by the RC Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich. More of that later.There was more to the confusion than…
Cats have a part in God’s purposes
YOU would not know it from the Common Worship calendar, but 17 March is the feast day of St Gertrude of Nivelles, the daughter of a Frankish nobleman. Gertrude rejected several marriage proposals to found a Benedictine…
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