The Church Times Cricket Cup began in 1951 and has been fiercely contested by dioceses ever since. The idea for an inter-diocesan cricket competition was first suggested by the Revd Greader Bussell, ...

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SOLAR panels — 184 of them — have been installed and blessed on the roof of York Minster. The Dean, the Very Revd Dominic Barrington, prayed: “Bless these solar panels that they may help us in our ...

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THE first new parish in the diocese of Guildford for 25 years has been established at the site of the former Deepcut army barracks in Surrey. The former garrison church, St Barbara’s, built as a tin ...

MORE than one third of adults in the UK are anxious about their everyday finances, new polling from Christians Against Poverty (CAP) suggests. Through its latest campaign, “Budget not Blues”, the ...

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THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams is among the signatories of a faith leaders’ letter urging the Government to support the Climate and Nature Bill, which is backed by more than 200 MPs ...

TENSIONS were high as Mozambique prepared for the swearing-in of President Daniel Chapo on Wednesday, amid continued street protests over the disputed parliamentary election result. Thousands of ...

THIS week’s column is about the online media that have largely replaced the press, and even TV, as the means through which people understand their societies. It is largely inspired by Henry Farrell, a ...

NEWS of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday evening has been welcomed with caution, after overnight Israeli missile strikes were reported to have killed more than 80 people. On ...

AT LEAST 25 people are known to have died, and 30 more are missing, in the wildfires that continue to burn around Los Angeles. Winds picked up again on Tuesday, and officials have warned of “extreme ...