News & Stories


Journey in Faith: A "graduate's" experience

Maria Jukes will be ordained in September and has recently joined the ministry team in Oadby. Here she talks about her experiences of the Journey in Faith course and how it led her to ‘truly amazing and slightly unbelievable things'…


Bishop, football club and University launch Leicestershire ‘Together In Hope'

The Bishop of Leicester is working in partnership with the University of Leicester's Vice-Chancellor and the CEO of Leicester City Football Club on a celebration of community spirit in Leicester and Leicestershire this weekend, supported by a raft of other public figures.


Launde Deanery responds to Black Lives Matter

A response from Christians who worship in the rural churches of Launde Deanery to the killing of George Floyd, demonstrating their commitment to the worth of all people and the Black Lives matter movement.


The birth of a new Intercultural Worshipping Community

God knows no boundaries, His love knows no end and, in a pandemic of isolation and restricted social interaction, He has brought together a like-minded group of multicultural friends. Intercultural Pioneer Ministers for the Diocese of Leicester, Venessa (Vee) Boahemah Pedro-Pinto and Kat Gibson, have shared with us the good news that 11 people have come together during lockdown to form a new Intercultural Worshipping Community (IWC).


Locked down Leicester reached through the airwaves

As lockdown continues in Leicester, the need for the Church to reach out to its communities in an act of God's love and as a sign of solidarity, is greater than ever. In Highfields and Evington, the churches of St Peter's and St Philip's have been connecting with their church families and the wider neighbourhood over the airwaves of a local community radio station.


Revd Hilary Lomax Made New Hospital Chaplain Via Zoom

Revd Hilary Lomax is made a hospital chaplain via Zoom with Bishop Martyn Snow


A very special Year 6 Leavers service

An uplifting online service for the hundreds of children leaving our Church of England primary schools this summer


Alan Fletcher Awarded Canterbury Cross in Lambeth Awards

Alan Fletcher, who worships at St Mary de Castro Church in the city, has been awarded the Canterbury Cross for Services to the Church of England.


Bishop of Loughborough Praises Work of Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation

Bishop of Loughborough, Guli Francis-Dehqani, on the Emergency Grant scheme through the Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation helping charities in this uncertain time.


Statement on renewed Leicester lockdown

The Bishops and our Dean, as well as other faith leaders in Leicestershire have signed a joint statement following the new lockdown

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