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Traditional Catholic parish in Swindon sees fruits of £250,000 grant from Church Commissioners

Funding promotes eucharistic mission in ex-railway parish, Madeleine Davies reports

13 Jun 2025

Shrink grants in favour of funding parish clergy, Bishop of Hereford urges Church Commissioners

DISTRIBUTING large sums of the Church Commissioners’ funds to dioceses through the Strategic Investment in Mission and Ministry Board (SMMIB) is a mistake, the Bishop of Hereford, the Rt Revd Richard Jackson, said this week

12 Jun 2025

Church-planter for Melbourne

Ric Thorpe’s election as Archbishop points to wider trends, writes Muriel Porter

06 Jun 2025

Leader Comment: Rise and fall

06 Jun 2025

Centre for Church Multiplication moves into subtraction phase

03 Jun 2025

Book review: Generations, Generations, Generations: The story of a church and a movement by Billy Kennedy, with Ralph Turner

30 May 2025

How should a Church respond to religious decline and reports of its reversal?

23 May 2025

Church attendance ‘moving closer’ to pre-pandemic numbers, early figures for 2024 suggest

16 May 2025

Strategic mission funding ‘means more worshippers’ for Church of England

16 May 2025

Bishop of Rochester questions Church Commissioners’ control over dioceses

17 Mar 2025

Church growth in the North hampered by supply, not demand, researchers find

15 Jan 2025

Angela Tilby: Can Christianity survive the next 50 years?

03 Jan 2025

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