Zimbabwe’s parable of Christian witness

Rampant inflation, hunger and struggles with disease have stalked Zimbabwe over the last few years but a recent visitor met Christians in the capital, Harare, and out in the parched countryside whose courage and fortitude bring hope of a new dawn...

Glimpse of a bygone Rome

A collection of photos on display in a London exhibition capture Rome in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The photographer was a Dominican friar and scholar whose hobby provides a unique record of a city on the brink of change...

Flower power

Mosaics made of pebbles and petals decorate wells and springs in the Peak District in summer. In the latest in our series on holy wells we look at an ancient custom that has its origins in giving thanks for the blessing of pure water ...

Come together

Christians in the West lack the evangelising zeal and commitment of their counterparts in the East, according to the new Professor of World Christianity at Liverpool Hope University, Daniel Jeyaraj. He told Peter Stanford that it was time that the denominations showed a greater willingness to work for unity ...

Church-State détente

A panel of experts is getting comfortable in the Quai d’Orsay where they have been given office space in the Foreign Ministry with a brief both to advise diplomats about religion and to arm them with arguments to help explain France’s policy of laïcité to the wider world...

Mary lights our way

The faithful share Christ’s glory only partially on their journey to the Resurrection but, as Daniel McCarthy writes, the Virgin Mary’s bodily Assumption into heaven points the way to their ultimate destination...

Ways to wedded bliss

Whether it’s external pressures or internal misunderstandings, marriages often suffer patches when couples’ paths diverge. But help is at hand through the Church’s Celebrate Love seminars developed in Australian parishes a decade ago and available in Britain for the past three years...

Racing uncertainty

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