Bank of England warns of ‘apocalyptic’ times ahead
The Governor of the Bank of England has issued a warning of an 'apocalyptic' scenario, with food price surges affecting our daily bread in particular. There is a war and…
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Synod to lament Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: where’s the condemnation?
There is a motion before the General Synod of the Church of England, proposed by the Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Rev'd Nick Baines, calling on Synod to "lament Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine": This isn't quite sufficiently robust for…
World Council of Churches must expel the Russian Orthodox Church
What kind of Christian conscience can slaughter a young mother and her three-month-old baby one day, and pop off to church, light a candle, and praise Jesus the next? Ukrainian…
Welby blasts BBC Question Time: ‘God will judge Putin’
Justin Welby has become the first sitting Archbishop of Canterbury ever to appear on the BBC's flagship political debate programme Question Time. Perhaps his predecessors over the past 43 years…
Patriarch Kirill: there are no Ukrainians, only ‘peoples of Holy Russia’
The Russian Patriarch delivered a sermon on Sunday in the Cathedral of the Armed Forces, just outside Moscow, which isn't so much an Orthodox cathedral as a temple to the…
Praying for Putin’s downfall, doom and destruction
There was a prayer for Ukraine in church on Sunday: "Lord, we pray for peace in Ukraine, and that Putin would see sense." That was it. There was no mention…
Why doesn’t Patriarch Kirill excommunicate Putin forthwith?
In the flaming ruins and rubble of Mariupol, dogs are eating people and people are eating dogs. Bloodied corpses line the streets, some covered with dusty sheets for burial shrouds,…
Welby and Kirill demand peace in Ukraine (but woolliness won’t stop war)
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Patriarch of Moscow have had a video conference in which they both agreed on the need for disciples of Jesus to be peacemakers, and…
Patriarch Kirill: Ukraine is paying for its Gay Pride
We know that Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow, doesn't recognise the His Beatitude Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine, and that he wants the schismatic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine to…
Archbishop says Putin is the ‘Antichrist’, building the ‘Third Rome’
President Putin is not mad. Unless, that is, all those who believe their political mission to be a divine vocation are mad. He may be grievously misguided and perversely in…