UK: Pentecost Festival launches with prayers for the nation

Christians met in front of Parliament on Saturday to pray for the nation and launch this year's Pentecost Festival, also known as the Biggest Birthday Party Ever. Pentecost is when the Apostles..

Christian Aid Week challenges global hunger

Christian Aid Week kicks off on 12 May and the development agency will be using it as an opportunity to raise awareness of the one in eight people who go to bed hungry each night. People across..

Bishops meet to discuss Christian-Muslim relations

The Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) are meeting in London to discuss Christian-Muslim relations. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux, France, will chair the..

UK churches praying for North Korea

Churches and individual Christians are signing up to pray for North Korea over the next two years. Project Cyrus is the initiative of BMS World Mission and is inspired by Cyrus the Great, a..

Richard Dawkins voted top 'world thinker'

"When Richard Dawkins, the Oxford evolutionary biologist, coined the term 'meme' in The Selfish Gene 37 years ago, he can't have anticipated its current popularity as a word to describe internet..

UK: Economic 'depression' could take generation to recover from, Archbishop warns

The Archbishop of Canterbury says it will take "drastic action" to restore confidence and trust in British banking. At a Bible Society event in Westminster, the Most Reverend Justin Welby..