LAYAN NASIR, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.

THE Pope has urged Christians to rediscover the link between faith and commitment to the poor, in his first significant teaching document since taking office in May (News, 23 May). “The condition of ...

THE death of Pope Francis triggered an avalanche of commemoration. What stood out was his commitment to serving the marginalised and, in particular, the incarcerated. As someone who has recently been ...

LAST Friday’s grand unveiling of the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, caught many by surprise. As avid Anglican number-crunchers compiled lists of ...

NEWS that Israeli and Hamas negotiators had reached a potential deal to halt the war in Gaza has been welcomed by bishops in the Church of England. They said on Thursday that a “fundamental shift in ...

THE Victorian ideal of Christian manliness — so alien in today’s world — was at its height in the decade of John Buchan’s birth. The phrase had been brought into popular consciousness in a series of ...

HARRY CLARK, winner of the second series of the TV show The Traitors, is the first to admit that writing a memoir at the age of just 24 is unusual. But his victory in the BBC show billed as “the ...

IN 2010, I flew to the Solovetsky Islands (or Solovki), within the Arctic Circle in the White Sea, ice-bound for eight months of the year, but in summer often bathed in sunlight, even at midnight. To ...

HUMAN rights inherently imply human responsibilities. That is something to remember when trying to pick a path through the maze of issues which surrounds the pro-Palestine marches in British and ...

RELIGIOUS communities have played a vital, but largely hidden, part in the life of the Church of England since the mid-19th century. While the existence of Anglican monks and nuns can come as a ...

THE Very Revd John Witcombe, Dean of Coventry since 2013, is to retire on 31 May 2026. During his tenure, the cathedral has expanded its arts and events programme, and removed the admission charge.