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From Tharp v. Hillcrest Baptist Church of Columbus, decided Dec. 27 by the Ohio Court of Appeals (Judge Keith McGrath, joined by Judges Julia Dorrian & Michael Mentel): This is an appeal by plaintiff-appellant, Kevin Tharp, from a decision … in favor of defendants-appellees Hillcrest Baptist Church of Columbus, Ohio…

St Pius X High School at Adamstown will change its name at the beginning of 2025 when the first cohort of Year 11 students commence classes.

More than 100 priests suspected of child sexual abuse remain active in church roles in Portugal, according to the head of a commission investigating the issue.

A commission investigating the issue said 77 percent of perpetrators were priests, and most of the victims were men.

The jailing of Bishop Rolando Alvarez marks ‘the most severe repression against the Catholic Church in Latin America’ in two decades

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has spoken at a global Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Ghana.

The Church of England is considering gender-neutral ways to refer to God, revealing a lot about how gendered language reinforces stereotypes

Chantal Noppen from Sunderland told the church's parliament during a proposal for the clergy to bless same-sex couples.

The Church of England has announced it will explore alternative words to describe God, after some clergy asked to use more inclusive language in services.

Same-sex couples still can't marry in the church, but clergy can now choose to confer blessings on a civil marriage or partnership. The decision came after a vigorous debate.

The Bishop of London said he recognised the change ‘does not go nearly far enough for many but too far for others’.