All briefings

September 2026

1. Wednesday, 16 September 2026Wednesday's Church Briefing: A Jailed Father, Faith in the Courts, a Region's First Vote

   From Hong Kong to Manila, Wednesday's reporting followed faith communities pressing against state power — through a son's plea, through lawsuits, and at the ballot box.

2. Tuesday, 15 September 2026Tuesday's briefing: a religious-freedom nominee, AI's costs weighed, and a Synod race opens

   A high-profile nomination to a religious-freedom post led a day in which churches also reckoned with artificial intelligence, a fresh Church of England campaign, and hard questions over life, policy and the wider world.

3. Monday, 14 September 2026Westminster rejects assisted dying as a crowded Monday tests the churches

   MPs voted down the assisted dying bill for England and Wales, while Anglican leaders addressed relations with British Jews, a bishop's safety in Nigeria and honours at Lambeth Palace.

4. Sunday, 13 September 2026A Ninth Embassy in Jerusalem Leads the Day's Church News

   A South Pacific nation's embassy in Jerusalem leads a day that also brought a congressman's new book, an English village weighing secession, a 9/11 prayer walk, and one writer's testimony.

5. Saturday, 12 September 2026Church Briefing: An Archbishop's Interfaith Meeting, and Leadership Changes Across the Communion

   Leadership changed hands across the Anglican Communion, while other outlets weighed faith's place in politics and technology.

6. Friday, 11 September 2026Daily Briefing, Friday 11 September: Assisted dying returns to the Commons as two churches choose new leaders

   The assisted dying bill returned to the Commons, with the Archbishop of Canterbury having urged MPs to reject it, as churches in Japan and Florida chose new leaders and National Baptists in the United States pressed for voter turnout.

7. Thursday, 10 September 2026London Evangelist Cleared, Amid Other Religious-Liberty Rulings and 9/11 Reflection

   A 72-year-old street evangelist was cleared of criminal charges in London, in a case that tested whether a single neighborhood could be treated as off-limits for biblical speech, as two other religious-liberty developments emerged in the United States and outlets marked the approaching 25th anniversary of September 11.

8. Wednesday, 9 September 2026A court decides who holds a church in Exeter, as writers turn to memory, scripture and rest

   An English court has settled which body controls the buildings of a divided Exeter congregation, while across the churches the day's writing dwells on remembrance, the reading of scripture and the disciplines of a distracted age.

9. Tuesday, 8 September 2026Daily Church News Briefing — Tuesday, 8 September 2026

   The day's most consequential story concerns people, not argument.

10. Monday, 7 September 2026Monday's Briefing: Pentecostal leaders press for TPS as a Salvadoran deadline nears

    A push in Washington to protect Salvadoran immigrants led a day that also brought a disciplinary complaint against an English bishop and the naming of a well-known author caught up in a viral flight.