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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 ...

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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 ...

A PLEA for the new United States administration to be merciful to undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ people has been rejected by President Trump as “nasty in tone” and from a “Radical Left hard line ...

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 ...

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 ...

A former British Airways captain has written his memoirs. He talked to Tim Wyatt about his work and faith ...

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 ...

QUESTIONS about where liability would lie should a new independent safeguarding body for the Church of England fail in its delivery of services are raised in a new legal paper published on Friday. The ...

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 ...