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Diocese breaks new ground with ‘Virtual Hustings’ for General Synod

Technology will play a part in elections from the diocese to General Synod this September. For the first ...


Revd Robertson has positive aims as Mayor’s Chaplain

Revd Kathy Robertson, team Vicar at St John the Evangelist in Dewsbury, has recently been appointed as Chaplain ...


Birkby and Fartown celebrate one year of giving free ESOL classes

Churches in Birkby and Fartown have recently celebrated their first year of breaking boundaries through running free lessons ...


Bulldozers at Bradford Cathedral

Bulldozers have moved onto the Green outside Bradford Cathedral at the start of a six month redevelopment  ...


Shoppers raise £1,850 worth of aid for St Catherine’s food bank

Generous shoppers who visited Sainsbury’s on Ings Road, Wakefield, this weekend raised £1,400 and contributed to four trolleys ...


Shipley parishioner becomes first British women to achieve highest Oxford Honour

Professor Susan (Sue) Gillingham, Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Worcester College, Oxford has achieved a first for ...


Parishioners find unexpected lodgers at school in Tanzania

Parishioners Maureen and Bill Jones were full of surprise when they found 20 Zebu cattle helping to mow the ...


Vicar's call for blood donations

About to give blood for the 350th time, one vicar in our diocese is appealing to people to ...


Thornhill Parish Church shortlisted for Angel Award

Thornhill Parish Church has been shortlisted for an Angel Award for the rescue of the Church of St ...


Festival of Faith - a story in pictures

Between 26th June and 4th July, the Upper Holme Valley hosted the pioneering Festival of Faith, an initiative ...

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