News & Stories


Hospital Chaplaincy - ministry during the Covid-19 pandemic: Mark Burleigh

30th April 2020

In a series we will be running over the next week, we talk to healthcare chaplains serving the University Hospitals of Leicester and gain a snapshot into their lives and their everyday faith, working under the constraints of coronavirus…


Emergency food bank at Christchurch Thurnby Lodge

15th April 2020

An emergency food bank has been set up at Christchurch Thurnby Lodge for people desperately in need of food parcels.


Hot cross buns help unite families online to remember Jesus's sacrifice

9th April 2020

Village families joined together online to consider the events of the first Easter and to make their own hot cross buns!


Friends in Leicester lockdown become a Quarantine Choir hit

3rd April 2020

Four musical friends together in a house in Leicester are bringing joy to the world


Families in lockdown taking comfort from Noah's ark

1st April 2020

Crafts help parents talk to children about God's love and promises


Messy Church 'in a bag' and DIY Easter gardens

31st March 2020

Church communities in Countesthorpe and Thorpe Arnold have been getting creative


Pebbles, fasting and phone buddies at Market Bosworth

31st March 2020

People from churches in Market Bosworth Benefice have been coming up with a variety of ways to support each other in everyday prayer as well as helping neighbours in everyday action.


Mothering Sunday with a difference

26th March 2020

Mothering Sunday was celebrated a little differently this year


New ways of being 'JIF'

25th March 2020

The diocese's Journey in Faith [JIF] course meets weekly and has just started its third and final term studying the development of the Christian doctrine.


Church and Council join forces in Great Glen

20th March 2020

In Great Glen, the church community has joined forces with the local council to put together a list of around 60 volunteers who can be called on to support villagers during this time of crisis.

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