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COMMENT / The Rt Revd Libby Lane, Bishop of Stockport on Towards a Safer Church: resources for prayer and reflection in worship
COMMENT / Throughout the year churches across the country open their doors to people of all ages, for services, weekday clubs and vital community projects.
A church garden has provided space for a trauma clinic to conduct therapy sessions.
A team of church volunteers from Hereford is helping elderly and social isolated people discharged from hospital to settle back at home during coronavirus.
Figures from a recent nature survey show that bumblebees, ladybirds and aphids are in the top five invertebrates found in churchyards and burial grounds across England and Wales.
While our churches are now allowed to open their doors for private prayer, for many it has not been possible or practical to do this – yet many such churches are still a sacred space in their community.
Dr Michael Beasley, Bishop of Hertford and an epidemiologist, writes of the urgent need to vaccinate the world on the first anniversary of vaccines being administered in the United Kingdom.
Churches in a network of food clubs have extended their hours to provide warm spaces for people struggling to pay their energy bills this winter.
The cathedral green in central Bristol will be “rewilded” a year after environment activist Greta Thunberg visited Bristol.
A local church is to broadcast a carol service directly into cells across prisons in the UK to bring hope over the Christmas period.