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The Church of England’s doctrine on marriage will not be changed to accommodate same sex relationships, but church teaching should offer “fresh thought” in line with society’s changed attitudes to sexuality, a report from the House of Bishops has said.

Gloucester Cathedral has provoked controversy by hosting an event featuring the Islamic call to prayer, as well as Buddhist chanting, Rasta drumming, and a Pagan rock band.

The number of Britons who believe in God has fallen by four percentage points in under two years, a new survey on religious attitudes has found, leaving atheism to pull significantly ahead.

The Church of England is run by out-of-touch academics and elites who are scared of patriotism and failing to protect the family, a bishop has said.

A Church of England vicar has been defrocked after his wife exposed his life of group sex and visits to gay brothels. A Church of England tribunal in London heard how the Reverend James Meredith Day’s behaviour led to his

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church attacked the Church of England’s “liberalisation” at a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury earlier this week. Patriarch Kirill raised “serious concerns” with Justin Welby over the Anglican Church’s decision to ordain women

For the first time in nearly 500 years, the Pope and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury will join in public prayers Wednesday, an event that hasn’t taken place since the Church of England broke from Rome in the 16th century.

Children should be taught to understand the Jihadi mindset if they are to make sense of why people commit terrorist acts, the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested. Speaking to an audience of headteachers, the most senior cleric in England’s state

Christians are partly to blame for “deeply entrenched” anti-Semitism in British society, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

Sex within a committed homosexual relationship is perfectly “proper”, the Archbishop of Wales has said, arguing that Christians who support same-sex marriage are not “abandoning the Bible.”

The Bishop of Grantham, Nicholas Chamberlain, has become the first Church of England Bishop to publicly announce that he is gay and in a relationship. Chamberlain made the decision to go public after a Sunday newspaper threatened to reveal his

England’s established church is edging nearer to a formal split over the issue of homosexuality as a group of parishes prepare to set up a “shadow synod” to uphold traditional Christian teaching. Around a dozen parishes in South East England

A gay Church of England priest who married his partner in defiance of the church’s official line on same sex marriage has announced that he is gathering signatures for a letter to the House of Bishops, urging them to relax

A parish church in the English Midlands is converting three to four Muslim migrants to Christianity each week, simply by opening its doors and offering assistance to the newcomers. Many report having first been turned away from local mosques despite

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Church of England’s spiritual leader will house a family of Syrian refugees in a cottage at his official London residence, Lambeth Palace, from next month, a local councillor said on Wednesday. Archbishop of Canterbury

The Church of England has warned that hundreds of migrants are exploiting a loophole where they convert to Christianity in a bid to avoid being deported to Iran. In Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral alone more than 200 Iranians have recently converted from

People who have no religion now outstrip Christians in England and Wales, as those brought up within the faith are falling away, new analysis of religious beliefs in the two countries has found. The proportion of people who consider themselves

The Church of Wales is investigating a minister who tweeted about radical Islam and expressed online a positive opinion of the anti-Islamisation group PEGIDA. The Father says he and his wife have been abused and harassed since an “anti-racist” group named

The BBC has concluded Christianity features too prominently in its religious output in an internal review, insisting other faiths be given more airtime and resources. Both the Church of England and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – who are

A self-declared “Progressive, radical Anglocatholic Parish iPriest” has said he believes Labour’s anti-Semitism problems have been made up by the “right wing press” and that only conservatives are “racist”. The Reverend Simon Rundell, a Parish Priest in the Diocese of Exeter and card-carrying

The Church of England has been accused of taking a pro-European Union (EU) stance in the run-up to the Brexit referendum after publishing a prayer calling for the “peoples of Europe” to work together. The new prayer, posted on the

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has confirmed that he is the illegitimate son of a one-time private secretary to Winston Churchill, after a newspaper reported the discovery late Friday. Welby, the most senior figure in the Anglican Communion consisting

It is “absolutely outrageous” to dismiss people as racists if they fear mass immigration, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. As Europe witnesses a record influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, Justin Welby said the British

Calls have been made for a vicar to be barred from his local council meetings after he urged those who want to see Britain leave the EU not to stigmatise migrants. The comments came as he was supposedly leading the council

The Church of England faces at least another three decades of decline as its elderly population is dying off faster than young people are coming into the church. In an attempt to reverse the trend, the Church’s leadership is pinning

A play depicting Jesus Christ as a transgendered woman has been performed in a consecrated and active Church of England church in Manchester. Bishops have slammed the spectacle as “contrary to Christian teaching” and “inappropriate”. The play, ‘The Gospel According

Justin Welby, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury (pictured), has warned Anglican churches in Africa that they could suffer “consequences” for their support of the outlawing of sodomy. Uganda, Burundi, Nigeria and Rwanda all have anti-sodomy laws, and Anglican leaders in Uganda

From The Guardian: Attitudes to same-sex marriage within the pews of the Church of England are sharply at odds with the stance of its leadership, as for the first time more Anglicans are in favour of gay and lesbian couples

Britain might take in refugee children who have been displaced by the war in Syria and have travelled to other countries in Europe, a government minister said on Sunday. International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the government was considering whether it

Long known for its indifference to religion, Britain continues to become less and less religious, with a record 46 per cent of the UK adult population now espousing no religion whatsoever. A new survey by researchers at Lancaster University reveals

The Anglican Communion has banned the Episcopal Church of America from representing Anglicanism on interfaith and ecumenical bodies, from taking part in internal committees, and from having decision-making powers on policy and doctrine for a period of three years. The

The number of people attending Church of England services each week has dropped below one million for the first time, with Sunday attendance plunging to a record low of just 760,000. The figures from the church’s annual attendance survey show

The Archbishop of Canterbury has told his fellow church leaders within the Anglican Communion that they need to be Disciples of Christ if they want the Church to project a positive image in the world. His words were delivered at a

The Anglican Communion stands on the brink of a worldwide schism over the question of homosexuality, with liberals decrying the “vilification” of gay Christians and conservatives threatening to walk out on an international Anglican summit unless “godly order” is restored.

For the first time since the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church nearly half a millennium ago, Catholic vespers will be celebrated in the chapel of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace next month.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is facing the biggest challenge to his authority to date from within the Anglican Church, in a row on homosexuality which threatens to split the church. In a week’s time Anglican leaders from across the world