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).
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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 is made a hospital chaplain via Zoom with Bishop Martyn Snow
An uplifting online service for the hundreds of children leaving our Church of England primary schools this summer
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, Guli Francis-Dehqani, on the Emergency Grant scheme through the Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation helping charities in this uncertain time.
The Bishops and our Dean, as well as other faith leaders in Leicestershire have signed a joint statement following the new lockdown
The Bishop of Loughborough has joined Christian leaders in signing a letter to the government opposing its inhumane practice of indefinite immigration detention in the UK.
Bishop Martyn speaks as churches and church schools in the city, and some neighbouring parts of the county, have to close once more.
Following the Prime Minister's announcement that church services may be able to resume from 4 July, Bishop Martyn has released a statement
