Inter Faith Week 2025

Inter Faith Week will take place from Sunday 9 to Sunday 16 November. The theme for 2025 is Community: Together We Serve.

A blueprint for ecumenical encounter

Theology student Alexander Hrabak, who is a member of the Oecumenical Patriarchate, received a Snelson Fund grant to go on retreat in Belgium.

Celebrating Tyndale500

Chair of Churches Together in Lymm and District, Simon Fawcett, reports on how the Cheshire town's churches organised a ten-day programme built around the public reading of scripture.

Re-orientation, Renewal and Reality of Discipleship conference – 24 & 25 March 2026

The Fifth Learning to be Missionary Disciples Conference will explore how the gift of new Christians across a range of ages and traditions is prompting the re-examination of discipleship.

Unity is not uniformity

Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana, Missiologist and Director of the One People Commission shares his reflection of the month for October.

Rural ministry is thriving, but often in quiet ways

CTE Principal Officer for Mission and Evangelism, Rev Dr Ben Aldous, reports on the ecumenical Love Rural conference.

Safeguarding Sunday 2025 – 16 November

Churches Together in England Safeguarding Lead, Ben Cross, encourages all our Member Churches to commit to making our communities safer for all.

CTE Presidents speak out against hate crime following mosque attack

The Presidents warn that the country is at a 'dangerous inflection point' and those who commit hate crimes must not be allowed to win.

The Christian voice: A catalyst for hope and reconciliation

An evening of open dialogue, new perspectives and hopeful inspiration, with the Rector of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem.

Faith, farming and fellowship

A grant from CTE's Snelson Fund helped Rev Laura Macfarlane, a curate in the Church of England, join an ecumenical community in America for Holy Week 2025.

Fund for Human Need – an introduction

This charity is now looking beyond historical supporters in the Methodist Church for new sources of funding for its poverty-relieving small grants.

CTE Presidents condemn synagogue attack and antisemitism

The Presidents offer prayers for the Jewish community and commit to working for positive relationships between faiths and communities.