The Church Commissioners for England has learned from research it commissioned that Queen Anne’s Bounty, a predecessor fund of the Church Commissioners’ £10.1 billion endowment, had links with transatlantic chattel slavery.

Why is Holy Saturday significant? How does the Church commemorate it? What is the Saturday before Easter Day called?

Rev Keith Fox, a former professor of biochemistry who was ordained earlier this year, speaks about how scientific research deepened his faith.

Why do churchgoers carry palm crosses? Why will there be processions through towns and cities this Sunday? Why will donkeys be seen in churches and cathedrals this week?

 

What does Good Friday commemorate? What happens in churches and cathedrals on Good Friday? Where does the name originate?

What does it commemorate? What does Maundy mean? Why do Christians wash feet? What is Maundy Money?

 

Women made up the majority of deacons ordained in the Church of England last year for the first time, according to new statistics published today.

'Our hope is that others will catch this vision and be willing to share our mission – to provide homes and build communities where people love to live'

Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Church of England's Bishop for Housing, looks back on a year since the publication of Coming Home, the report of the Archbishops' Commission on Housing Church and Community.

 

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A former airline pilot who saw the ‘face of Christ’ in the people he met after landing in some of the poorest areas of the world has been ordained a deacon.