FEATURE / The Church of England’s digital communications team has trained more than 200 parishes in social media and writing for the web.

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.

FEATURE / Latest figures show a 22% increase in people selected to train for the priesthood over the last two years, with a 32% increase in young people.

A ‘Santiago of the North’ has been launched, encouraging people to walk ancient pilgrimage routes to Durham dating back more than 1,000 years.

The restoration of an early 20th century church clock has brought joy to a parish after it was silent for more than 15 years.

A Cathedral choir has recorded a fundraising anthem for Ukrainian children, to be released on Mothering Sunday.

 

More than £400,000 has been saved over the past 12 months by members of food clubs, or low cost food shops, run by Church of England churches in just one town.

Christians reviving ’graffiti’ tradition as public expression of faith.

During the pandemic, nearly a quarter of a million people have used the Daily Prayer podcast – finding support in a daily cycle of prayer traditionally associated with monastic communities. 

 

A Church of England hospital Chaplain has led a campaign which has identified more than 1,000 people over 80 to be vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccine.