The Church of England has appointed Sarah Mullally as its first-ever female Archbishop of Canterbury. The appointment follows the resignation of Reverend Justin Welby and was approved by King Charles III.
For the first time in its history, the Church of England has allowed women to become bishops following voting.
500 years after Britain's then King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic church over its refusal to sanction his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, 'his successor, King Charles III, prayed with Pope Leo XIV beneath the sublime frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in an act of rapprochement between the Catholic church and the Church of England', The Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.
A Bishop on Saturday became the first Church of England priest to openly declare that he is gay and in a long-term relationship with a man.
Pressure is mounting on the Church of England, a stakeholder in the British mining giant Vedanta to "use its power" to refrain it from exploiting bauxite from mountains of Orrisa, considered sacred by the local tribals.
Elihu Yale rose up the ranks of the East India Company to become governor of Madras and is the controversial benefactor after whom Yale University is named.
As part of Life Balance, a course due to be published next week, the established Church also urged worshippers to meditate on the day of the rest.
Vampires, murders, superheroes and romantic reunions galore, it's quite a package of emotions on OTT this week.
Eriksson, known in Sweden simply as "Svennis", led England to the 2002 and 2006 World Cup quarter-finals, and to the 2004 European Championship, managing a golden generation of players that besides Beckham included stars such as Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard.
The recent move by the Church of England to allow ordination of women as bishops has caused ripples among traditionalists in the Indian church, especially in Kerala, the seat of Syrian Christianity, with top religious leaders opposing it tooth and nail, asserting that episcopacy was not the job of the fair sex.The historic decision of the Anglican Church, the most influential Protestant congregation, created a vertical split in the Anglican Communion in the world.
The first national flag in Independent India was hoisted at Fort St George in Madras, not at Delhi's Red Fort.
The worst economic downturn in decades has forced the Church of England to turn away clergies for the first time in history after billion of pounds of its investments were wiped out in the financial crisis.
The Vatican officially declared its intention to defeat the Church of England on Tuesday - not in a theological re-match nearly 500 years after they split, but on the cricket pitch.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church died on Monday aged 88.
A wake is expected to take place at a chapel in Gondomar from 4 PM (1500 GMT) and a funeral on Saturday at a church nearby at 10 AM local time, Gondomar's mayor's office said.
Mumbai's Church of St John the Evangelist or Afghan Church looks today as good as it did 158 years ago.
IMAGES from the Super Eight Match of the T20 World Cup, played between England and USA, in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Sunday.
Reverend Libby Lane was ordained as the new Bishop of Stockport.
Nimrat's foodie holiday... Bipasha's fun time with Devi... Sidharth explores Europe...
England's fitness coach Marques Church will be sentenced this week after he was found guilty of downloading child pornography using an Internet connection financed by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Harmanpreet, Sreejesh shortlisted for FIH Hockey Stars Awards
Glimpses of Westminster Abbey in London where Great Britain's King Charles III's coronation will take place on May 6, 2023.
King Charles III acceded to the throne immediately following the death of Elizabeth II on Thursday, and described losing his mother as "a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family".
In narrating the Maria story, Vatsala Mendonca, in the tradition of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaiden's Tale, Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Arundathi Roy's The God of Small Things, places the protagonist challenges within the context of class and caste and religious and, most of all, patriarchal conflicts and ultimately finds strength and hope, inspiring readers to pursue their dreams and carve their own paths.
The report added that cult members had approached certain members of the cricket team, who are Buddhists, to influence them. The panel, constituted in November last year to assess the performance of the 2014 World Cup champions and probe the influence of the cult on team selection, has, however, recommended that "special attention" must be given to prevent the movement from making inroads into the team.
The best way to really take in the English countryside is to go narrowboating.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the guardians of the laws of cricket, stamped its seal of approval on Deepti Sharma's run out of Charlotte Dean at the non-striker's end which saw India win the third women's ODI against England at Lord's.
He will travel to Kolkata, Ranchi, Nagpur, New Delhi, Chennai, Vellore, Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram during the visit at the invitation of the Communion of Churches in India, a statement by the British High Commission said in Kolkata on Friday.
The private funeral service at the University Church of St Mary the Great near Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University was chosen by Professor Hawking's children.
Deciphering its secrets will unlock the early history of not only our planet, but also of the star system, explains Kumar Abishek.
'When my father travelled 5,000 miles to build a new home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to become its leader.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com profiles Dr Leo Varadkar who will step down as Ireland's taoiseach (prime minister) next week.
Dunki doesn't have any repeat value unlike other Hirani films. And that perhaps is saying a lot, notes Mayur Sanap.
Try an alternative to the traditional pudding.
'Bharat is the core value that has to be lived by and if you deny it, then the people will discard you.'
Ezra Moseley featured in two Tests against England in 1990 and also played nine ODIS between 1990 and 1991. He went to the rebel tour of South Africa back in 1982-83 and was banned.
The unfortunate associations with the name Charles for an English king -- one who was executed; the other with a very unsavoury reputation -- led royal observers to assume that Charles would not take his Christian name when he became king.
An official period of state mourning is underway in the United Kingdom on Friday, a day after Queen Elizabeth II died at her Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland, and there has been an outpouring of grief from members of the public who have been laying flowers at royal residences around the country.
UK-based metals major Vedanta Resources came under more pressure as it was revealed on Tuesday that one of its group companies, Balco, is a supplier of refined aluminum to the Indian defence sector. This information is now being used by human rights campaigners to urge investors like the Church of England to divest from Vedanta Resources to keep in line with the church's policy of not investing in companies that are involved in any way in armament production.
The king and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, travelled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey -- a distance of 2.2-km -- at a stately pace in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach bearing a gilded crown, which was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
Namrata Thakker takes a look at his Instagram feed to find out.
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