PARLIAMENT voted for the law to change on assisted dying “in the face of mounting evidence that it is unworkable and unsafe ...

A BILL to legalise assisted dying has been passed in the House of Commons by a narrow majority of 23 votes. A debate on the ...

Supporters of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine attempt to take over the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, in Chernivtsi ...

THE Bishops of London and Southwark, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally and the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, urged MPs to reject ...

NINETEEN Bishops are among more than 250 Church of England clergy who have signed a letter condemning a move to decriminalise ...

Among the many raids was one on a meat-packing plant in Omaha, in which 76 people were detained. It prompted a public letter ...

29 June, Zechariah 4.1-6a, 10b-end; Psalm 125; Acts 12.1-11; Matthew 16.13-19 THIS may be the day of “Peter and Paul”, but, going by the principal-service lectionary, Peter is the one who counts. The ...

IN 1922, just 150,000 people listened to radio broadcasts. By 1939, that number had exploded to 34 million, making it one of the most rapid technological shifts in modern history — on a par with the ...

GOD of love, whose compassion never fails, we bring before you the trouble and perils of people and nations, the sighing of prisoners and captives, the sorrows of the bereaved, the necessities of ...

MARSHALL, his wife, and their three children are refugees. They sought asylum in the UK in 2020, and spent the next four years in asylum hotels. Today, they have been granted leave to remain, but ...

I AM sorry to tell you that the world is about to end — albeit in approximately one billion years, when the sun starts burning out. Of course, it could be earlier, given the eco crisis: there have ...

THE remains of an eight-year-old boy murdered 50 years ago may be exhumed to be cremated and scattered according to the ...