Press releases from 1 January - 31 December 2023.

Archbishop of Canterbury’s football team to host a ‘green’ football match as part of national campaign

More than 700 young adults have taken part in the Ministry Experience Scheme, General Synod members have heard, as it marks its 10th anniversary.

For the first time, under historic plans outlined today, same-sex couples will be able to come to church to give thanks for their civil marriage or civil partnership and receive God’s blessing.

Bishops highlight the hope of the resurrection in a series of video and published messages ahead of Easter.

Call for a period of prayer leading up to the Coronation as book of Daily Prayers is shared

Nigel Genders, The Church's Chief Education Officer, responds to recent reports.

The Church Commissioners and the Church of England Pensions Board have announced that they will independently disinvest from fossil fuels.

The Church Commissioners for England, which manages the Church of England’s £10.3bn endowment fund, has decided to exclude all remaining oil and gas majors from its portfolio, and will exclude all other companies primarily engaged in the exploration, production and refining of oil or gas, unless they are in genuine alignment with a 1.5°C pathway, by the end of 2023.

The report follows an interim announcement in June 2022, which reported for the first time, and with great dismay, that the Church Commissioners’ endowment had historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery*