Al-Ahli hospital is one of the last fully-functional hospitals in Gaza City. Last month, its medical director, Dr Maher Ayyad ...

THE Pope held a private meeting with the King and Queen at the Vatican ’s Casa Santa Marta, on Wednesday afternoon, and gave ...

ON GOOD Friday, there are two ways to enter into the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. One is “natural”: to see the story as ...

A GRANT of £14.95 million has been awarded by the Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board (SMMIB) to the diocese of ...

The last opening I attended at the National Gallery was “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350”. That was a special experience. When religious art comes from an actual church or abbey, it sems to ...

HELP is at hand for churches wanting to set up, strengthen, or rebuild a junior choir. The new Young Voices Toolkit, from the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), is a step-by-step guide to involving ...

God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the making of the Bible by Candida Moss (William Collins, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-0-00-861221-4). New in paperback “Filled with profound revelations for ...

THE actual fasting practices and motivation of more than 600 regular churchgoers of different denominations, especially during Lent, have been studied in a survey by the charity Green Christian. The ...

WRITING about the Mods and Rockers in the 1960s, the sociologist Stanley Cohen outlined the concept of a moral panic. This was when a phenomenon or group of individuals becomes defined as a threat to ...

COE. The Revd Andrew Coe, Team Rector in the Surrey Weald Team Ministry (Guildford): 30 April. FERRIS. The Revd Amanda Ferris, NS Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) of Letchworth with Willian and Old ...

MOSAICS in Lourdes by the Slovenian artist and former Jesuit Fr Marko Rupnik are to be covered up before the pilgrimage season gets under way. Twenty women’s allegations that he sexually, ...