Church of England

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Justin Welby says he is “ashamed of our history and our failure”

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Monday 27 January

Church Investors Group pushes for greater gender equality, tax transparency and divestment from fossil fuels

Synod amends 17th century canon law due to decline in clergy numbers

Believers can now request prayers or find a church through their personal assistant device

General Synod warned of dark days ahead after 3,300 reports of alleged sexual abuse in 2016

New guidance for CofE schools says play is ‘sacred space’ for imagination

News prompts fresh calls for Government to cut amount of public money going to the church

Archbishop of Canterbury calls on predecessor George Carey to resign after damning report into former bishop

Woyin Karowei Dorgu is the Church of England's first black bishop for more than 20 years

Investigation into alleged attempted rape of a teenage boy makes 'embarrassing reading'

The Church needs to debunk the myth that God is an 'old white man in the sky', say campaigners

Church of England advertised a job at £6.50 an hour – £1.35 below the living wage

The General Synod has voted today to allow the creation of women bishops

Christianity came to Britain within a century of Jesus’s crucifixion – whatever the humanists might say

Justin Welby suggests accepting gay marriage would mean the Church would be unable to help other victims of oppression