The Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Vincent Nichols are among leaders paying tribute to Conservative MP Sir David Amess after he was stabbed to death inside a church while meeting constituents.
He follows a number of other Anglican clergy in defecting to the Catholic Church.
There are many challenges facing the UK Church but with the pandemic receding, there are also many opportunities, says the Rev Hugh Osgood.
Pope Francis welcomed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Vatican on Saturday, as she arrived in Rome for a gathering of legislative leaders of G20 countries ahead of the UN Climate Change Summit in Scotland later this month.
Bravo, then, Leicester Diocese in England – it has stepped off the edge and bravely taken the plunge into a whole new potential way of doing ministry. Whether that step off the edge is tantamount to falling from a cliff into an abyss – or a gentle paraglide ride landing in fresh sunlit pastures – remains to be seen.
The Church is in danger of a "Rip Van Winkle" moment if it fails to recognise the seriousness of climate change, evangelical theologian R David Muir has warned.
A damning report says at least 330,000 children were abused while in the care of France's Catholic Church in the last 70 years.
Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious leaders came together at the Vatican on Monday for a climate-focused meeting ahead of the UN's COP26 summit in Glasgow next month.
The Bishop of Coventry has received one of Germany's highest awards in recognition of his peace and reconciliation work.
"We are witnessing a profound recession of marriage across the Western world and it is hitting the poor the hardest," says Christian psychiatrist and academic.
Churches need to tackle the issue of pornography but often struggle to do so because the subject "feels dirty", a Christian ministry has warned.
The report, "British Ritual Innovation under Covid-19", suggests hybrid is here to stay but the experience needs to be improved.
Evangelicals in the Church in Wales are also calling for the appointment of a bishop to "give voice" to those who believe in the traditional Christian teaching on marriage and sexual morality.
