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The C of E’s bishops have rejected a request for “nationally commended liturgical materials to mark a person’s gender transition.”

The Synod of the Anglican Church in New Zealand will consider blessing same-sex relationships without changing its teaching on marriage.

The Revd Dr Olav Fykse Tveit will take an anti-nuclear message with him when he travels to the World Economic Forum in Davos tomorrow.

Confessing our sins to God and confessing our sins to others are two different things.

We Christians like to believe that blessings always feel good.

As God's people, we're always told that God will never leave us nor forsake us. God actually promised that, but the truth is that until we arrive at a level of faith and intimacy with Him, we will experience loneliness.

Communication is a key ingredient to a growing, happy, and healthy marriage. Married couples need to learn how to communicate in ways that foster growth, encourage openness, and cultivate love. When husbands and wives communicate the right way, great things happen.

The Bible tells us that we ought to be like Christ in all that we do. Whether at home or in the office, at work or at play, we've got to be like Jesus Christ in the way we think, act, and relate with others. This goes the same for all that we are doing and will be doing.

"...that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."

It's crunch time for the Church of England and the Methodist Church. They are facing a crucial decision this year – the CofE in February and the Methodist Church, assuming all goes well at the General Synod meeting, in July.

One of Donald Trump's evangelical advisers who prayed at his inauguration has broken rank over Republican plans to deport so-called Dreamers - undocumented immigrants who arrived in the US as children.

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Revd Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has spoken out strongly against nuclear weapons ahead of a trip tomorrow to Davos, Switzerland for a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

What worries many Christian leaders in the region is that Trump's overt support of persecuted Christians may cause them to be attacked even more, such is the hatred for him among Muslim fanatics.

Justin Welby has declined to rescind his statement that said Bishop George Bell still has a 'significant cloud' left over his name following the publication of a critical report into the Church of England's handling of an abuse claim against the late bishop.

Dr Peterson has gathered quite a following through his psychological analysis of narratives and myths – especially of the Bible.

A Russian Orthodox bishop has advised the faithful not to vote for the 'darkness' of Vladimir Putin when he stands for re-election as president in March, after Putin last week said Communism was like Christianity and Lenin was like a saint.

Concern is mounting rapidly among Protestant Christians in Bolivia over a new law that threatens to ban evangelism.

Sitting in the pews during the Sunday Communion service at the Anglican Church of St James in Porto yesterday, you could not help but marvel at how small corners of Britain like this – the early 19th century church, its extensive British cemetery and a beautiful war memorial – are scattered all over the globe.

When we read Jesus' words in Matthew 5:29-30, several things come to mind. But why would Jesus zero in on just one eye and not consider both eyes?

Christians ought to be mad for the right reasons.