Hundreds of members of the Upper Room church wearing yellow construction helmets arrived in buses and began painting walls, covering images of famed players from the Alianza Lima club.

Football fans soon arrived and the two sides clashed. Police in the Peruvian capital used tear gas to break up the confrontation.

Police Chief Gaston Rodriguez said two fans were detained and one of the church members was injured.

The club said in a news release that it has owned the plaza for 40 years, but church lawyer Sandro Balbin said the church has been the registered owner of the property since 2016.

It is now used for concerts, parking and a gathering place for fans. The Upper Room wants to hold worship services there.

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He said young people are both joining established and new religious communities.
 
 “We are witnessing a revival of interest in community life in its different forms: celibate and non-celibate, communal and dispersed, traditional and experimental.” Most Rev Justin Welby wrote in the Church Times.

 
 The archbishop said this revival comes after a report published a decade ago gave a very bleak outlook on the growth of religious communities. Declining membership and rising average ages were a few factors that predicted a “meltdown”. 

 “That is why, as we take stock at this moment, we can rejoice that God has had very different ideas,” Archbishop Justin added.
 
“To look at the new life breathing into established and new communities across the Church of England is to see the Spirit of God at work in an incredibly exciting way.”
 
He said that Mucknell Abbey and West Malling are both great examples of established communities making way for new people.
 
The Benedictine Sisters at West Malling partnered with Rochester diocese and St Augustine’s College to recreate their space in order to welcome new novices. They also have ​the Pilsdon Community on the same site, ​
 
Archbishop Justin also praised new communities like Tree of Life in Leicester, and the Young Franciscans in London for “answering a clear desire among younger people to integrate…

In a statement, Francis’s nine cardinal advisers expressed their “full solidarity” with the Pope over the scandal which has thrown his papacy into crisis.

The cardinals, who are meeting at the Vatican this week, said they were aware that “the Holy See is working on formulating the potential and necessary clarifications”.

Francis has refused to respond to an 11-page document published on August 26 by a retired ambassador to the US, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.

Mr Vigano named more than two dozen current and former Vatican and US officials and accused them of knowing about and covering up for ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is accused of sexually molesting and harassing minors as well as adults.

Mr Vigano accused Francis of rehabilitating McCarrick from canonical sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 or 2010.

The Vatican has known since at least 2000 that McCarrick slept with seminarians.

Francis removed McCarrick as cardinal in July following accusations that he groped a teenage altar boy in the 1970s, a canonical crime that could result in him being defrocked.

Francis’s refusal to immediately respond to Mr Vigano’s claims has frustrated many Catholics in the US, who were already outraged that McCarrick’s penchant for seminarians and young priests was apparently an open secret in some church circles.

That outrage has been compounded by the…

The overloaded commercial plane crashed into a lake in Yirol.

The 19-seater commercial Baby Air plane had been travelling from the capital, Juba, the minister of information for the town of Yirol, Taban Abel Aguek, told The Associated Press.

Officials are investigating the cause of the crash.

According to the Anglican Communoin News Service, the Primate of South Sudan, Archbishop Justin Badi Arama, said: “Mama Joyce and I are saddened to hear of the plane crash in Yirol this morning, which has claimed the lives of a number of people, including the ECSS Bishop of Yirol, Rt Revd Simon Adut Yuang.

“Bishop Simon was an energetic young man and is a loss to the Episcopal Church of South Sudan. Please join us in praying for the families and friends of all involved in the accident.

“Jesus said, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.”

The three survivors of the crash are a six-year-old child, an adult man and an Italian doctor with an aid organisation who was in surgery and in serious condition, Mr Aguek said.

“There were people everywhere,” the minister said of the crash site.

Bishop Simon was consecrated in May 2015. He leaves behind a wife and six children.

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Rt Rev Rachel Treweek is expected to call for a review of short prison sentences and ask that the Government considers community based orders and rehabilitation for women with less serious offences.

She said in a statement: “We know that women in the justice system get caught in the so-called revolving door with short prison sentences. Women lose their homes; they often lose custody of their children, even to adoption. This often then exacerbates the downward spiral into more serious offences and an inability to secure employment.

“Properly resourced women’s centres can provide an opportunity for a different path, where women can receive a holistic trauma-informed approach of rehabilitation.”

Bishop Rachel said a review of the women’s justice system could lead to a more cost-effective solution.

“We know that it costs approximately £47,000 per year to keep a woman in prison, but women’s centres can work effectively with approximately £4,000 per woman each year,” she said.

The bishop also highlighted that female offenders are very often victims of abuse.

“According to the excellent organisation ‘Women in Prison’ 53 per cent of women in prison have experienced emotional, physical or sexual abuse during childhood; 46 per cent report suffering domestic abuse violence; and over 30% spent time in local authority care as a child,” she said.

“As a…