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Susie Leafe, a prominent evangelical within the Church of England, has quit her role as director of the conservative campaign group Reform.

Harry Farley. Christian Today. 5 January 2018

Reflections for today on a summer staying with her missionary aunt, Mary Isaac, in Isfahan Iran.

Mary Dejevsky. Independent. 5 January 2018

A Lima-based mission partner of the Church Mission Society has been appointed as the agency’s first Latin American mission development manager. Paul Tester has been working alongside young people and the Anglican Church in the region various ministry roles since 2007

ACNS. 3 January 2017

‘It’s just an unspiritual bigging yourself up.” This was the acerbic verdict of one Durham ordinand on the subject of church growth.

David Goodhew. Covenant. 3 January 2017

Bishop Mano Rumalshah, the Coordinator for the Church of Pakistan, reflects on last month’s terror attack on Bethel Church in Quetta.

ACNS. 2 January 2017

Eight Christians and a Muslim policeman have been killed in an Islamist terror attack on a church in the southern Cairo district of Helwan. Egyptian government officials say that a gunman attacked and killed two Coptic brothers in a shop, before moving onto the Mar Mina Church. Six Christians were killed here, along with an auxiliary policeman.

ACNS 2 January 2017

Most Rev Justin Welby said 'depth of suffering' matched by 'depth of compassion' after London and Manchester terror attacks and Grenfell Tower fire

Lucy Pasha-Robinson. Independent 1 January 2018

IRIN 31 December 2017

Storms and Stillnesses For New Year's Eve, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams looks back over what has been a stormy year in many ways, and reflects on our limited ability to control the world we live in

Communities coming together in the face of horrors such as Grenfell show there is light in the darkness, Justin Welby will say

Harriet Sherwood, Guardian 1 January 2018

Egypt's Muslim leader has condemned the church terror attack in which ten died. Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, warned that such attacks threatened national unity in Egypt. He called on all Muslims to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ "with their Christian brothers".

Christian Today 30 December 2017

At least 11 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire outside a Coptic Christian church near Cairo. Egypt's  health ministry has said.

Caroline Mortimer. Independent. 29 December 2017

Inside the newly renovated Church of Saint George in the Northern Iraqi town of Teleskof, Hayat Chamoun Daoud led children dressed as Santa Claus singing Jingle Bells in Aramaic. Like every other resident of Teleskof, this was Daoud's first Christmas back home in three years, since Islamic State militants overran her town and forcibly displaced its 12,000-strong Chaldean Christian community.

Reuters on Christian Today. 25 December 2017

It's been a good, if not vintage year for cinema. Blockbusters have once again dominated the multiplex movie screens, and it certainly wasn't a great year for those. Thanks however to a phenomenally-strong Oscars field and a few unexpected surprises throughout the last 12 months, there have certainly been enough highlights to warrant this: what has now become Christian Today's annual film review of the year.

Christian Toay 27 December 2017

Release International, which campaigns for persecuted Christians worldwide, has highlighted China, Nigeria and India as 'countries of concern' in 2018.

Christian Today. 28 December 2017

It’s hard to think of a more varied group of people than the one that gathers at my local church. Surely a truly healthy society is built on this sort of diversity

Giles Fraser. Guardian 28 December 2017

It is hard for us in a society in which even the one-night stand has become socially respectable to register the trauma behind the account of the visit of the angel to Joseph, telling him to take a pregnant woman as his wife.

Alison Milbank. ABC Religion & Ethics. 21 December 2017

Paul Bayes, bishop of Liverpool, accuses some religious leaders of ‘colluding with a system that marginalises the poor’

Harriet Sherwood. Guardian. 28 December 2017

The leaders of three local faith organisations open up about the struggle to help their community after the fire.

Guardian 28 December 2017

Human traffickers using holiday homes in tourist hotspots as temporary brothels, says Rt Rev Alastair Redfern

Josh Halliday. Guardian. 28 December 2017