NEWS / The Church of England has launched new worship and prayer resources to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.

NEWS / The Church of England Education Office has today written to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) following the publication of its draft unedited version of a periodic paper - CRC/C/GBR/CO/5. 

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.

NEWS / Collective worship

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has launched a free national phone line as a simple new way to bring worship and prayer into people’s homes.

Places of worship will reopen for public worship from 2nd December

Worship in schools should be “inclusive, invitational and inspiring” according to the Church of England’s new guidance for collective worship.

Tens of thousands of people have rediscovered the ancient monastic cycle of daily prayer during the pandemic, with one new Church of England worship podcast accessed more than half a million times in just over three months.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has given his backing to a call from the Pope for Christians across the world to join in saying the Lord’s Prayer.

The Church of England is preparing to take the church into people’s homes – through TV screens, laptops, computers and mobile phones – ahead of the first Sunday without public worship.