British Isles

Day of Prayer for Our Nation - Friday 13th November 2020

10 Nov 2020
We would like to invite our readers to unite in a UK Day of Prayer for our communities and for significant breakthrough this Friday. The Evangelical Alliance (EA) has called a UK Day…

Captain Tom encourages fundraising for lonely

06 Nov 2020
Captain Sir Tom Moore raised £33m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden before his 100th birthday. Now in the second lockdown, he has launched a new campaign to…

Lockdown will worsen mental health challenges

06 Nov 2020
42 mental health experts have warned that lockdown will trigger a spike in suicide, self-harm, alcoholism and domestic abuse. In an open letter to the Government, they said the longer the lockdown lasts,…

Security alert upgraded

06 Nov 2020
The UK terrorism threat has been upgraded to ‘severe’ after terror attacks in Vienna and France. This is its second-highest level, meaning that an attack is ‘highly likely’. Previously it was simply deemed…

Cocaine supplied from CofE-owned house

06 Nov 2020
Four men have pleaded guilty to drug offences after selling cocaine from a property owned by the Diocese of Exeter. In May the group was arrested in Ide, near Exeter, after police discovered…

Pray for spiritual growth in lockdown

06 Nov 2020
Based on a post by Passion for the Nation: ‘Ecclesiastes speaks of a time and season for everything under heaven. We can pray that during the four lockdown weeks, God’s people will take…

Lockdown worship rules may change

06 Nov 2020
Last week faith leaders from across the UK wrote to the Government, urging it to re-evaluate the closure of worship places. On 4 November health secretary Matt Hancock, speaking to the House of…

Locked-down churches keeping in touch with children

06 Nov 2020
How can we worship and share our lives, when the two ways of being together - in person and online - are often really difficult for families? Making online church work for children…

UK / EU: Brexit negotiations move into 2 crucial weeks

30 Oct 2020
This last fortnight of Brexit negotiations has been a bit ‘stop-start’, but they now appear to be progressing a little more positively with face to face talks.  Meetings have been held in London,…

Comic Relief reality check

29 Oct 2020
Comic Relief will stop sending celebrities to Africa after criticism that stars like Stacey Dooley were going to Africa as ‘white saviours’. The charity will also stop using images of starving people or…