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Cathedrals to receive £20m for urgent repairs
A new £20m fund has been announced in the Chancellor's Budget today to help cathedrals foot the cost of urgent repairs.

Becoming more like Jesus - lessons from James
Mark Driscoll's church, Mars Hill Seattle, is continuing its series on the book of James, written by Jesus' younger brother.

Beating off the loan sharks together
A new centre opened in an East Durham church hall this week will help people access a credit union instead of turning to ruthless loan sharks.

'God has a solution for Egypt' - bishop
Egyptians must find unity in their common heritage and focus less on their religious identities, says a bishop in the UK Coptic Orthodox Church

Irish Catholic faithful struggle with Church teachings
The Irish Catholic faithful struggle with the teachings of the Church on issues relating to family life and sexuality.

5,000 'Jesus Wells' bringing clean water across India and South Asia
Gospel for Asia plans to drill 5,000 water wells across India and South Asia over the course of this next year for those struggling to find clean water.

1,000 South Koreans to visit UK on prayer mission
A thousand South Korean Christians will be visiting the UK this September as part of a country-wide prayer mission.

A Budget to make work pay
Christian leaders and charities have called on the government to do more for those who are working, but still poor, as today's budget approaches.

Noah and the flood: Was God evil?
Christian Today talks to noted Scottish apologist David Robertson to answer the question of whether the Genesis flood was fair.

Shakespeare in an age of high religiosity: A crowd pleaser who couldn't resist a jab at the Puritans
University College London's Dr Alison Shell says Shakespeare was an incredibly humane writer who was less a judge of faiths as he was the people who represented them

Mark Driscoll apologises for being 'angry young prophet'
Megapastor Mark Driscoll has responded to a recent wave of criticism with a statement in which he contends "my angry young prophet days are over".

Religious Education is good for community relations - report
A new report concludes that the Government should make RE a higher priority because of the role it plays in fostering healthy community relations

Central African Republic pastor's plea to UK Christians: 'Please pray for us'
Spiralling violence in the CAR has led to increased calls for prayer and an end to the crisis.

Letting actions speak louder than words in Pakistan
Bishop Tony Robinson and Canon Yuqub Masih visited Gojra in Pakistan to promote interfaith relations and foster unity between Christians and Muslims.

Enslaved by cocoa
Almost 40 per cent of the cocoa used to make chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast, where thousands of children as young as ten are working in horrendous conditions, trafficked from their homes and families, to satisfy our cravings. Stop the Traffik is calling for change.

Christian guesthouse couple take legal action to Europe
A Welsh Christian couple running a guesthouse have taken their legal action defence of a policy to restrict double beds to married couples to the European Court of Human Rights