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23 January 2026

Curate competes in Gladiators, icons on Ukraine ammunition boxes, 114th Bishop of Worcester installed, and Orthodox pilgrims wait to bathe in the River Jordan

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Fight the good fight: The Revd Rachael Phillips (right), the assistant curate at St John’s, Greenside, in Durham diocese, competed in a recent edition of the BBC1 programme Gladiators. She lost by a fraction of a second in the head-to-head eliminator. Ms Phillips served in the army for 14 years before ordination

Fight the good fight: The Revd Rachael Phillips (right), the assistant curate at St John’s, Greenside, in Durham diocese, competed in a recent edition...

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