A group of parishioners from the South Yorkshire ex-mining village of Grimethorpe set off this month on an epic pilgrimage to Italy, to plead for closer unity between Catholics and the Church of England.
03 June 2005
An appeal for the churches in Britain to help bring an end to the inequality and discrimination suffered by Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land was made today by Father Samuel Barhoum, Anglican Vicar of Nazareth
31 May 2005
The Archdeacon of Doncaster, Venerable Bob Fitzharris, last night urged congregations to get up and be involved with society and culture to make sure the Christian message is heard.
20 May 2005
Church of England doctrine becomes more accessible with the publication of Contemporary Doctrine Classics.
20 May 2005
What is left when the waters have receded? We will all have in our minds the pictures we saw in December and January of a landscape of wreckage and horror. For many here, that will be a picture of how they felt as they first faced the reality of loss, or the fear of hearing the worst - standing in a ruined world, familiar landmarks destroyed, numb with loss.
13 May 2005
Between 1535 and 1540 seventeen monks and lay brothers of The London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery, were put to death because they would not accept the Act of Supremacy. The first to be executed was the Prior of Charterhouse, St John Houghton
06 May 2005
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, has issued a pre-election open letter, urging party leaders to avoid political campaigns based on the exploitation of fear.
31 March 2005
A study programme to help parishes, deaneries and dioceses engage with the Rochester report, Women Bishops in the Church of England?, has been published on the Church of England web site.
30 March 2005
The Church of England Diocese of Chichester has started an initiative to ensure that all church councils within its boundaries declare themselves supporters of Fair Trade.
11 March 2005
The Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert, who chairs the House of Bishops' Europe Panel has written today to all senior Anglican clergy encouraging them to contribute to a more informed debate on Europe.
09 March 2005