A Christian-led community group is becoming one of the first to welcome a Syrian refugee family into the UK under the government's new sponsorship scheme.
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) will provide £200m in emergency aid to South Sudan and Somalia. Christian Aid has welcomed the news, while the former Archbishop of Canterbury has said millions more are 'on the edge of survival'.
Justin Welby has warned of the 'dire situation' in South Sudan as a state of famine has been declared in parts of the African nation where an estimated 100,000 people are already starving, according to the UN.
The conservative Anglican grouping GAFCON are renewing calls for rebellion against the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Church of England threw out a report keeping the traditional teaching on marriage as between one man and one woman.
A Church of England bishop has apologised after accidentally voting against a key report that kept teaching on marriage as between one man and one woman.
More than 220 church leaders from across the UK have signed a petition opposing the Government's decision to stop a resettlement programme for child refugees.