NEWS /  The Church of England Pensions Board, together with investors with assets totalling nearly £50bn, has filed a shareholder resolution at Rio Tinto calling on the company to review and fully disclose its relationships with industry bodies.

The Church Commissioners for England today reiterated support for the climate-related shareholder resolution, filed against the board of ExxonMobil, and calls on Exxon not to block the resolution going to a vote in 2020. 

NEWS / Church of England parishes across the country are inviting their communities to join them this Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. 

The Rt Revd Mark Tanner has been named by Downing Street as the 41^st Bishop of Chester, succeeding the Rt Revd Dr Peter Forster who retired in September 2019.

NEWS / To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, the Church of England Communications Office has published a series of reflections following a pilgrimage led by the Archbishop of Canterbury to Auschwitz Birkenau.

NEWS/ House of Bishops publishes response inviting clergy to use the service for affirming baptism to mark a gender transition.

NEWS / Events are taking place to mark a quarter of a century of women’s ordination to the priesthood in the Church of England. The first group of women were ordained priests on Saturday 12 March 1994, in Bristol Cathedral.

NEWS / Space suits, meteorites and a giant sculpture of the moon to help celebrate 50th anniversary of moon landing

Messages and photos are to be placed at ‘walls of reflection’ in cathedrals and churches, with prayer vigils and services due to take place, for the National Day of Reflection marking the second anniversary of the first Covid-19 lockdown.

NEWS / Church of England marking the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon with prayer and reflection.