Christian Connection member Matthew Miller appeared in the Good Weekend magazine, produced by the Sydney Herald as one of the most popular members of Christian Connection Australia.

The recent upheavals last week at Spark Networks, operators of Christian Mingle and Jdate pose some important questions about niche dating sites. Stockholders voted out most of the existing board and signalled a change in direction.

Do the events there say anything more generally about the state of the niche dating model?

Christian Connection member Cat Lane appeared in The Times Magazine as one of the most popular members christianconnection.co.uk. The article looks at “Britain’s Most Wanted” daters on the UK’s top online dating sites.

Zuliana & Tope met on Christian Connection in October 2012 and married in March 2013. They share their story on Premier Gospel Radio.

Christian Connection launches an advertising campaign on the London Underground – the first specifically religious dating site to do so.

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For the last 13 years since we launched Christian Connection, I have hoped that one day a TV programme about Internet dating would come along which is genuinely well informed, probing and helpful. But I ended up watching ‘ITV Tonight: Looking for Love’ with a mixture of frustration and resignation. Apparently the twittersphere agreed with me.

As part of Radio 2’s Faith in the World Week Hardeep Singh Kohli has been on a journey across the UK where he has been meeting people of faith and asking the question does their religion help or hinder solo living?

A new survey on loneliness suggests that religious people may be more likely to be lonely than those without a faith. Trevor Barnes considers whether the church’s focus on the family can alienate those who live alone.