The amendment on union members’ paying into the political fund was proposed by the crossbencher Lord Burns, who was involved in negotiating the agreement reached in 2016. He had been “taken aback” by ...

THE next Bishop of Worcester is to be the Rt Revd Hugh Nelson, Downing Street announced on Tuesday. He succeeds Dr John Inge, who retired last year ( News, 3 May 2024 ).

York Minster was the first cathedral to employ a designated safeguarding adviser, the report says. The holder of the position ...

The ADF is known for its violent tactics, and is reported to have escalated its violence against local populations. The group ...

SURVIVORS of abuse in the Jesus Fellowship/Jesus Army — described by its trustees as “widespread and systemic” — were the ...

THE International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) ruling on climate change is “historic”, the Moderator of the World Council of ...

Short films, part of the charity’s A Just Peace initiative, ‘bring together the voices of UK Christians and Palestinians’ ...

THE words of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester during the Second World War, were invoked in the House of Lords on Friday.

“Life has been pretty grim in patches, especially the year I spent in Thailand in the Jungle camps building the railway.” In ...

Because the Bill is designated as one concerned primarily with economic issues, the Lords have no power to amend the ...

INSTEAD of a system “focused on vengeance and punishment” — partly the result of media portrayals of crime — the Government ...

Prince El Hassan bin Talal, a member of the Jordanian royal family, spoke at the conference in Jerusalem, offering his ...