The 2800-word text says that a “year of forgiveness and freedom” was declared every half-century by ancient Jewish ...

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The Traveller, Sammy Cooper, sought a faculty for the memorial over the grave of his father in the churchyard of the Grade II ...

The UN Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 was launched in Geneva on 4 December. It finds that 305.1 million people are in need ...

THE youth homelessness charity DePaul UK has described as “heart-warming” the reunion of one of its Nightstop service users ...

Kim Leadbeater MP’s Private Member’s Bill on Assisted Dying has set the stage for a free vote on this important public policy issue. As people of faith with a passion for life in all its fulness what ...

Bishops across the Church of England have released Christmas messages, of which several refer to conflict in the world. The ...

Lincoln priest found guilty of indecent assault on six boys ...

THE threshold for inheritance tax levied on farms should be raised, in order to alleviate the pressure that the Government’s ...

Quoting from “Once in Royal David’s City”, he spoke of God’s “redeeming love”. “That is the heart of the nativity story and ...

A PRIEST accused of child sexual abuse, who had paid a settlement to one of his alleged victims, was reappointed twice as an ...