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Ash Wednesday or Valentine's Day? This year it's a choice between them
It's a problem for Christians who believe in true romance. For this year, Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine's Day.
Did Mike Pence 'co-opt' Holocaust victims to appeal to evangelical base?
Mike Pence has been accused of 'co-opting' Holocaust victims 'for the political agenda of his evangelical base' after the US Vice President talked of resurrection in a tweet honouring International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the weekend.

Priest banned from ministry to defend George Bell at Church of England's headquarters
A disgraced priest barred from ministry for abusing colleagues and making malicious allegations against his superiors is to speak at the Church of England's headquarters in London on Thursday.

Anti-gay Arizona pastor who called for death of Obama banned from Jamaica
A Holocaust-denying and anti-gay pastor from Arizona has been denied entry into Jamaica after outcry from activists on the island.

Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas in 'astonishing' blog on grief and faith
Sky Sports anchor and committed Christian Simon Thomas says he is weak from grief after his wife Gemma died suddenly, aged 40, late last year.

Hillsong's worship band wins Grammy Award in New York
Hillsong's worship band won it's first Grammy award in New York on Sunday night for the song What A Beautiful Name.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri: A brilliant film to hate
Three Bilboards is a film that left me leaving the cinema with a spirit of heaviness, wishing that I had gone to see The Post instead.

These two great broadcasters are helping us appreciate creation
Professor Cox talks about the whole thing being shot through with magic. And for me the question is can there be magic without a magician.

Trump's Afghanistan strategy under spotlight after 11 dead in fourth attack on Kabul
Donald Trump's strategy in Afghanistan is under the spotlight after 11 soldiers were killed in the fourth major attack on the capital Kabul in the last nine days.

The Post review: in the fake news age, the truth shall set you free
It's no coincidence that a film about the freedom of the press has been released at the very moment that this freedom is at great threat of being eroded.

The Pandora's Box of Spiritual Abuse is out: Here's what the Church must do
We need to open this issue up, it will be painful and I don't know where the boundaries should be drawn, but we can't duck it if we are genuinely to be a Church of healing and flourishing.

What Barack Obama's Christianity can teach white evangelicals
Evangelicals may find such attention as they received from Barack Obama more hard to come by after the Trump era takes its full toll.

Church of England calls for ban on daytime gambling adverts amid warnings of 'moral crisis'
The Church of England is warning of a 'moral crisis' facing children and young people as a study revealed two in three teenagers feels bombarded by adverts for betting firms.

'How are we to live?': Afghan capital in shock after ambulance bomb kills over 100
Kabul reacted in despair and fear on Sunday, a day after a suicide bomb killed more than 100 people and wounded at least 235 in the worst attack seen in the Afghan capital in months.

The Scot who gave her life at Auschwitz: Christian martyr honoured at new heritage centre
The legacy of a Scottish Christian who gave her life to protect Jewish schoolgirls in World War Two will be kept 'alive' in a heritage centre honouring her life and martyrdom, opening in Scotland today.

Taliban ambulance bomb kills at least 95, wounds more than 150 in Kabul
A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint.