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Church Times Review of the Year 2024
Dec 20, 2024 · A WAVE of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine marked the start of 2024, killing and injuring hundreds. The strikes were condemned by Ukrainian religious leaders. The Revd Paula Vennells, the Anglican priest who was chief executive of the Post Office during the Horizon IT scandal, said that she would ...
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UN report predicts ‘unspeakable human suffering’ for 2025. THE normalisation of human-rights violations and a lack of political solutions to escalating global conflicts are causing “unspeakable human suffering”, more than 100 humanitarian organisations have warned
Message of ‘peace on earth’ still rings true across the world, says …
3 days ago · “DIVERSITY of culture, ethnicity and faith provides strength, not weakness,” the King said in his Christmas message this year. In his third Christmas message since his accession, he spoke of his “deep sense of pride” at the response to the “anger and lawlessness” in various towns during the summer — a reference to the riots that erupted in …
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Apr 5, 2024 · Bishop of Warrington ‘away from diocese’ THE Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, in the diocese of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Beverley Mason, is currently “away from the diocese”, clergy were informed at last week’s chrism eucharist.A statement was read out, which said that “with the permission of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of …
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Dec 19, 2024 · Retired bishop marks ten years of hosting people at risk of homelessness. THE youth homelessness charity, DePaul UK, has described as “heartwarming” the reunion of one of its Nightstop service users with two of its hosts, the Rt Revd Mark Bryant, an assistant bishop in the diocese of Newcastle, and his wife, Elisabeth
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
Aug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
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Jun 16, 2017 · Lord Harries’s British-values Bill progresses unamended. A BILL to extend the “British values” taught in schools to freedom of religion and respect for the environment, proposed by the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries, will now move to its Third Reading in the House of Lords, after no amendments were tabled.In the introduction to the Second Reading of his Education (Values of British ...
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Aug 29, 2024 · Rededication of stone carving. AN ANCIENT stone carving believed by some historians to be the earliest-known sculpture of St Thomas Becket has been restored to the chancel of St Lawrence’s, Godmersham, in Kent — a church on the ancient pilgrim route between Winchester and Canterbury — and rededicated (News, 31 May).The service last weekend was attended by both Anglican and Roman Catholic ...
National Churches Trust draws up blueprint to show how to save …
Jan 25, 2024 · THE future of church buildings is the single biggest heritage challenge facing the UK, and a national plan is urgently needed, the National Churches Trust (NCT) says.. The support charity launched its latest campaign, Every Church Counts, at a reception in the House of Lords, on Wednesday.The latest figures show that 3500 churches closed in the past ten years, and more than 900 buildings are ...