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THE Moderator of the Church of Pakistan, the Rt Revd Azad Marshall, has warned that a new law in Pakistani which makes the dissemination of “fake or false” information a criminal offence could be ...

UKRAINIAN church representatives have voiced shock at the closure of foreign-aid programmes by the United States, announced on Monday as Russia pressed on with its three-year invasion. “This ...

SAFEGUARDING professionals across the Church of England have urged the General Synod’s members not to back a proposal to outsource their work to a new national body. In a letter sent on Wednesday and ...

IT ALL began with a tennis dinner. The year was 1981, and 47-year-old Captain Brian Walpole was flying high. As one of the first British Airways (BA) Concorde pilots, Mr Walpole had what he called ...

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” statistic that masks human suffering, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF’s ...

THE forecast made a fortnight ago in our columns that the Angora Government had decided to risk the carrying out of its long-conceived intention to capture or to destroy the Œcumenical Patriarchate ...

CHRISTOPHER JEFFERIES was a retired English teacher in Bristol in December 2010, when the tenant of one of the flats he owned disappeared. Joanna Yeates’s body was found on Christmas Day; Jefferies ...

THE effects of President Donald Trump’s orders halting the United States’ refugee-assistance and overseas-aid programmes are already being felt, as charities lay off staff and slash support services.

ALLEGATIONS made last week that members of the Liverpool Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) had been “bullied” into considering Dr John Perumbalath for nomination have been disowned by other ...

DECORATIVE patterns, motifs, and the red-painted outline of faux masonry are commonly seen painted on church walls. They can be regarded as a type of art that was created for the clergy, nobility, and ...