Mary, Queen of Scots does not recount what she ate for dinner on 7 February 1587, but she does record what happened as soon ...

This scene of Henry, exalted as the Supreme Head of the Church of England, is a woodcut printed on the title page of the Great Bible of 1539. The first ...

The pre-election polls in Gorton and Denton were close – a three-way tie between the Greens, Labour and Reform UK. A senior ...

India’s bishops condemned the racial abuse of ethnic migrant women from the northeast, calling it a blot on the country’s ...

Christians Against Poverty is among those warning of an “uncertain future” with mounting numbers of people locked out of work ...

The Secretary of State of the Holy See questioned the justification of the US and Israeli attack on Iran as a “preventative war”.

The humanitarian and international development charity Christian Aid has called on the UK government to “work urgently to press for an immediate ceasefire” in ...

There are only a couple of surviving images of the Refuge for the Destitute, the Georgian institution which moved to Hackney in 1815. One is a watercolour by ...

A Filipino archbishop warned against the return of a Duterte-style presidency as the Philippines marked the fortieth anniversary of the People Power ...

A group of 19 Catholic bishops released a statement calling for reforms to the conduct of immigration enforcement in the hours leading up to President Donald ...

I was on Moor Lane when the whole world seemed to burst into song. Two thrushes had begun calling at the same moment, one from the very top of the oak I was ...

The German bishops’ conference approved the statutes for the Synodal Conference of bishops and lay representatives at its winter plenary last week.