What Christians can learn from 2025
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Chris Goswami2025-12-24T14:33:00
Chris Goswami looks back at the biggest news stories from 2025, explores how they have impacted the Church and takes a look at the year ahead
What memories will stay with you from this past year? From the Catholic Church electing an American Pope and the CofE appointing a female Archbishop of Canterbury, it’s been 12 months of historic firsts inside the Church. Elsewhere, news headlines have been dominated by ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East, Trump’s contentious immigration polices, wildfires and floods.
Here are three defining news stories I’ve chosen from 2025 that deserve a second look.
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