Count the cost of your carbon footprint for the sake of the developing world - is the message from the CofE’s Climate Justice Fund, launched during the College of Bishops, with support from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

As half a million people across the UK are set to receive personal invitations 'back to church' in the next few days, thousands more will be hearing their invitation over the breakfast table or on their drive home.

The Archbishop of Canterbury shares concerns for the planet in a new videocast encouraging viewers to sign up in advance, via the internet, to the Church of England’s environmentally-themed online Advent calendar for 2009, with its daily green challenges and thoughts. The Ready Steady Slow videocast is available on the websiteand on YouTube. It is the first of a number of Ready Steady Slow events, including a stand at the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham which happened over the August Bank Holiday.

The Archbishop of York Youth Trust has been set up to help and motivate young people to be leaders of change in their local communities. Read more about the awards including a special video message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Canon Paul Bayes(pictured) talks about this year's Back to Church Sunday and the professionally produced 40-second radio advert that is helping churches promote this year’s initiative. Meanwhile, Canon Stephen Lake of St Alban's Cathedral encourages clergy to make the most of church weddings, via the pages of his book Welcoming Marriage. Listen in

The Commissioners manage a diverse portfolio of assets on behalf of the Church of England. These are held in stock market investments and commercial, residential and rural property and were valued at £4.4 billion as at December 2008. Andreas Whittam Smith First Church Estates Commissioner(pictured)  provides the latest quarterly update about the fund’s performance. 

A 1.8 per cent rise in the number of students taking Religious Education at GCSE level marks the eleventh annual rise in entrants for the subject, according to figures released in August. More than 182,000 students across the UK have received the news of their grades for full course Religious Education, which also sees a rise in the proportion taking the subject. The results indicate that 73.4 per cent of RE students achieved a grade between A* and C (compared to 72.5 per cent last year).

The publication of A-level results marked the sixth year in a row that the number of students taking Religious Studies A-level has risen, with an increase of 4.7 per cent over 2008.