Regional News

Two Church of England schools are in the running to become Primary School of the year, as the 10th national School Awards take place in London on Friday night (22 June).Christ Church Primary School in ...

The Revd Canon Dr Matthew RhodesVicar, Maney St Peter and Honorary Canon of Birmingham CathedralTo be: Vicar, Ranmoor St John, and Area Dean of Hallam (Diocese of Sheffield)(17 September 2018) (Matthew’s last day in office ...

One of the strongest images from Paris recently is of the four year old child being rescued from a high balcony by a man who has climbed up the outside of the building to save ...

It all started in Sandwell... A group of eight friends from different faith backgrounds received the world's first Together for Hope award. Together for Hope is a sister organisation to Coventry Cathedral's Community of the Cross of Nails ...

What is worship? When we leave the church building after most services we hear the call “Go in peace to love and serve the Lord,” and we reply, “In the name of Christ, Amen.” What ...

World-wide over 60 million people are recognised as refugees. In Syria alone, more than 11 million people have either been displaced, forced from their homes or killed as a result of conflict. The week beginning ...

The Right Reverend David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham becomes the first Anglican Bishop in the UK to pay respect to the victims of Europe’s 1995 genocide in Srebrenica which has been described by the UN ...

Ordination of PriestsOrdination to the Priesthood by the Bishop of Birmingham on Saturday 23 June 2018 at 1100 in the Cathedral Church of St Philip, BirminghamThe Revd Ben CookAssistant Curate, Walmley St John, Diocese of ...

Last week, a team from the Church of England - Birmingham joined folk from across the city and slept out on concrete at Edgbaston Stadium to raise money for charities who work with the homeless. Our team ...

The only national border that I have been unable to cross in a lifetime of travel is that between North West Pakistan and Afghanistan - at Landi Kotal in 1976. I have also always been ...

This course is being prepared in connection with the partnership between the CofE - Birmingham and the Anglican Church of Bolivia. Appropriately translated, its aim is to help members of local churches both there and here ...

Come and pray for the City, in the City for about an hour from Ascension Day to Pentecost SundayThy Kingdom Come is a simple invitation to pray between Ascension and Pentecost for friends and family ...

St Peter's Church , Balsall Common regularly collect items for the container for Malawi. We send knitted good, children's clothes, tools, etc. When I was last in Malawi I saw how short the schools were ...

The Children’s Society have informed us of changes to staffing which has a direct impact on their work with the parishes and senior staff of Birmingham diocese. Most of you know, and will have met, ...

Easter is a meaningful time for new beginnings, and Revd Calvert Prentis and Revd Dr Sharon Prentis recently left the sunny South East to join our team in Birmingham, as Diocesan Director of Ordinands and ...

Every year, a container lorry leaves Birmingham bound for Malawi, full of items such as books, children's clothing and stationary that Malawians need and that people across our parishes donate.The next container is to be ...

Mike Down, Schools Project Manager for Church of England – Birmingham, and Louisa Harrop, Head of Learning at Birmingham Cathedral, have teamed up to offer a creative space to pray in Birmingham Cathedral during the ...

One of the great problems of our age is isolation, coupled with indifference - a tendency to live separately, hardly acknowledge others as one passes them on the street, and even a sense now that ...

'Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold the new has come.' 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17Where would you be most surprised to find evidence of ...

If you are wondering if God might be calling you to the ordained ministry ... then this is for you.Wednesday evenings from 7.30pm till 9.30pm:16, 23 & 30 May and 6 & 13 June 2018at ...