In 2015, the Court of Appeal rejected claims from Unite that beneficed clergy with freehold should be treated as employees or ...

THE Bishop of St Albans since 2009, Dr Alan Smith, is to retire on 31 May, when he will be 68, he announced on Tuesday.

THE Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has pledged to introduce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, so that it becomes an ...

A MARRIED couple who received their doctorates in theology and practice together, at a University of Winchester graduation ...

Artisans of intricate papier-mâché decorations grapple with a sharp decline in business, Danish Showkat and Mehendi Mehraj ...

THE rural economy is something that “we in the Church of England are glad to play our part in”, the Bishop of St Albans, Dr ...

It’s heartening to meet people who are alive today because they were in one of our vehicles that saved them in an explosion’ ...

THE threefold character of the festival is of ancient origin. The 13th-century liturgist William Durand referred to the ...

THE Anglican Communion is moving “from a season of raw and antagonistic division to one of reckoning with what will likely be a long process of resolution”, the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on ...

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1 A service book originally accepted in church within fortress (6) ...