Mark Woods

Reprieve for YWAM as Home Office decides its missionaries can stay
The threat of deportation has been lifted for overseas volunteers working for the youth charity.

#UseMeInstead: Clergy protest against use of mugshots for police target practice
North Miami Beach has now banned the practice, but protesters believe it exposes a worrying culture.

Catholic MP Sarah Teather will join Jesuit Refugee Service on leaving Westminster
The Liberal Democrat MP will become an advocacy adviser for children.

Former Southern Baptist missionary sentenced to two years for $300,000 fraud
Brady Nurse submitted fraudent expense invoices while he was a missionary in Portugal.

Japanese bishop tells of wartime training as a kamikaze pilot
Retired bishop Paul Saneaki Nakamura survived the war because Japan ran out of aircraft.

Mark Woods: A lesson from Auschwitz
The Church has to uproot the seeds from which Holocausts grow.

Archbishop of Canterbury and daughter back churches' mental health toolkit
Katharine Welby-Roberts has struggled with depression and believes churches could do more to help those with the condition.

'Rt Rev Libby Lane': Church of England's first female bishop will be consecrated today
The service at York Minster marks the culmination of years of campaigning.

Heavenly bodies: how US churches have made fitness a spiritual issue
A health website has identified the fittest churches in Texas.

India: Bishops urge Narendra Modi to stop Hindu mass conversions of Christians
Mass conversion programmes are a politically-motivated breach of India's secular constitution, say Catholic bishops.

The female 'taint'? Why some bishops won't be laying hands on Philip North
A row over women bishops is overshadowing the new Bishop of Burnley's consecration February 2.

US and Iraq plan summer offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State
The city in Iraq's Christian heartland could be reclaimed.

Ripping yarns: How a British Empire novelist has become the darling of the American Right
G A Henty's famous boys' stories are thrilling a new audience.

Onward Christian Soldiers manuscript to be sold
A signed copy of one of the world's great hymmns will fetch thousands of dollars.

Christians driven out of Iraq by Islamic State might return home this year, says Vatican diplomat
Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, Pope Francis' representative in Iraq, says he is cautiously optimistic.

Durham Free School takes fight to Education Secretary after closure ruling
The Christian school is to challenge Nicky Morgan over her decision to shut it down.