Britain’s finance minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has this afternoon delivered the annual budget speech to MPs in the House of Commons; and the Church of England has been quick to respond to two measures which will affect churches.
16 March 2016
The Archbishop of Nigeria has praised police and government officials after their successful rescue of three teenage schoolgirls who had been kidnapped from their church-run boarding school in Lagos.
09 March 2016
Security forces in Pakistan have conducted a full-scale security exercise at a Peshawar Diocese school following terrorist attacks at other educational institutions in the area. The exercise was part of a general review of security at schools which has seen 230 educational facilities closed because of inadequate security.
16 February 2016
The largest Episcopal parish day school in the United States of America cancelled a PE lesson and pupil meetings and instead used the time to package more than 10,000 meals for hungry children in developing countries.
29 January 2016
A group of four teachers from the Solomon Islands have made a four-week training visit to the UK as part of a twinning project between schools in the Church of England’s Diocese of Exeter and schools run by the Anglican Church of Melanesia.
05 November 2015
Students from Anglican schools throughout the province of Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia have prayed through the night as part of a 24-hour vigil for the refugees streaming out from Syria across Europe, and into camps in Jordan and Lebanon.
16 October 2015
Archbishop Makgoba emphasises importance of training Anglicans – in particular women - for ministry
17 August 2015
A theological college established by the Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa has reached a double milestone
22 July 2015
Ofsted becoming a schoolroom security service is step too far, writes Church of England chief education officer
28 November 2014
A network of savings clubs in primary schools which could give pupils as young as four years old practical experience of money management is being proposed by the Church of England
12 November 2014