Priest related articles

A new report detailing how clergy have fared in the Covid pandemic is published today as part of the latest findings from the Church of England’s Living Ministry research programme. 

An estate church has provided £5,000 worth of supermarket vouchers to a primary school.

Biblical Hebrew, studied by trainee priests, can often pose a challenge for aspiring ministers. 

A chance conversation between a bakery worker and a Church of England priest after he dropped into a branch of Greggs has led to her baptism.

Prayer services dating back to the early days of Christianity have enjoyed a big revival at a Middlesex church during the pandemic.

More than half of young adults have lost someone close to them over the past year, with this age group most active in helping to comfort the bereaved and organise funerals, according to new research on the impact of the pandemic published today by the Church of England.

NEWS / The Revd Dr Malcolm Brown, the Church of England’s Director of Mission and Public Affairs, comments on plans for a new system of registration for marriages, including church weddings, in England and Wales.

Churches are hosting activities from curry nights to community barbecues as part of a summer holiday scheme that is expected to feed more than 1,000 children in one diocese alone.

Nearly 400 ordinands completing theological training next year are on course to take up stipendiary curacy posts in the Church of England after extra funds were allocated, it was announced today.

Fire fighter Paul Burnett is to combine his duties with the role of curate in a parish church.