Find hope beyond Covid-19 in resurrection, say Church leaders
The nation will recover and "life will get better", Church leaders said in a Good Friday message.
The nation will recover and "life will get better", Church leaders said in a Good Friday message.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said the message "Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives" was a "very ethical message".
The Diocese of London has asked certain clergy who were still able to livestream services from their buildings to stop for the time being.
Church Mission Society said the project, for people to share their grief in words and pictures during the coronavirus pandemic, had taken off in ways it never expected.
The court said that the "evidence did not establish guilt to the requisite standard of proof".
British and Irish Church leaders have issued a joint call to Christians across the denominations to pray during Holy Week for all those suffering as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
In lieu of traditional processions and services at church, millions of Christians around the world are marking Palm Sunday at home under lockdown due to coronavirus.
A lessons learnt review into allegations of spiritual abuse against retired Church of England priest Jonathan Fletcher is continuing in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury and major Church denominations are joining in saying the Lord's Prayer at 11am on Wednesday in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The change to the guidance means that even priests cannot enter their buildings to say prayers or livestream services and will now have to broadcast these from home.
Cathedral buildings are closing their doors along with other places of worship across the country after sweeping new restrictions on movement were announced by the Government on Monday evening.
Weddings and baptisms can no longer be held in churches under drastic new social distancing measures being imposed by the Government.
The Lambeth Conference, a major gathering of bishops from across the worldwide Anglican Communion, has been postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus.