COMMENT / Throughout the year churches across the country open their doors to people of all ages, for services, weekday clubs and vital community projects.

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.

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.

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

The summit should make good on commitments to tackling climate change, writes Rt Revd Graham Usher, lead Bishop for the environment.

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.

Chichester Cathedral doubles own target for food donations for people in crisis, as churches in the area offer hot food and warm spaces this Christmas.

A parish in the heart of Canterbury has celebrated the success of an Evensong service whose congregation has  jumped from just one person to more than 70. 

Up to 250 households visit ‘food clubs’ each week opened at Church of England parishes in Wigan, providing low cost fresh and tinned goods to members.