Diocese of Portsmouth

News from the diocese of Portsmouth. The diocese of Portsmouth covers south-eastern Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

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St Teilo’s will become Wales’s first resource church

THE Church in Wales is pressing ahead with plans to launch its first resource church in St Andrew and St Teilo, Cathays, in Cardiff, next month, despite opposition from the existing congregation

21 Aug 2020

Car parks and fields double up as venues for church services

CONGREGATIONS forced out of their churches by the coronavirus have been taking advantage of warm summer days to worship outdoors. For some, the experiment could become permanent, even after the weather turns autumnal

14 Aug 2020

Clergy comedy helps to raise lockdown spirits

IF LAUGHTER is the best medicine, churches and their clergy have been dispensing it — deliberately or not — during the pandemic

29 May 2020

Mass events move indoors and online

21 May 2020

Charity calls for generous response to meet lockdown needs

01 May 2020

Cathedrals to mark VE Day with picnics at home

01 May 2020

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09 Aug 2019

Portsmouth choir scheme turns music into outreach

28 Jun 2019

Homelessness crisis is severe, say charities

08 Feb 2019

Church Commissioners allocate £35m more in strategic grants to counter decline

23 Jan 2019

Churches offer shelter at night as winter sets in

14 Dec 2018

Portsmouth builds on success of its pilot scheme to house the homeless

16 Nov 2018

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