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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

26 January, Nehemiah 8.1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19 (19.1-6); 1 Corinthians 12.12-31a; Luke 4.14-21 WHEN I ask people to read in worship, I advise them to prepare by reading the passage beforehand, ...

BISHOP Keith Rayner, who was archbishop of two metropolitan Australian dioceses, and Primate, has died in Adelaide, aged 95. Dr Rayner, a theologian who strongly supported the ordination of women, led ...

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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 ...

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 ...

THE Charity Commission has extended its inquiry into the Barnabas Fund (also known as Barnabas Aid) to four other charities connected to it, after identifying “possible risks due to their shared ...