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Guidance on weddings and baptisms during the current period of restrictions on public gatherings to combat coronavirus has been updated by the Church of England.
An Oxford College has celebrated the largest number of baptisms and confirmations in at least 20 years.
Jade Walker describes the sense of love, support and joy she felt attending a friend's baptism.
The House of Bishops COVID-19 recovery group has shared draft guidelines for when funerals, weddings, baptisms and individual private prayer can recommence in church buildings.
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.
COMMENT / The Rt Revd Libby Lane, Bishop of Stockport on Towards a Safer Church: resources for prayer and reflection in worship
The Church of England has published new advice to help parish churches and cathedrals prepare to reopen their buildings for public worship after more than three months of lockdown because of the coronavirus.
A curate has started a local text-a-prayer service for those wanting someone to pray with amid Covid-19 restrictions.
Following a recent announcement that places of worship could reopen for individual private prayer from June 15, the Government has now revised the date in guidance just published to June 13.
The Coronation Service is, at its heart and in its structure, a celebration of Holy Communion.