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6 days ago · Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal ‘must not be a false dawn’, says Archbishop of York. NEWS of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday evening has been welcomed with caution, after overnight Israeli missile strikes were reported to …
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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 …
How are churches addressing the cost of living crisis? - The Church …
4 days ago · THE sobering effect of visiting a food and clothing bank operating from a damp basement on one of the city’s most deprived housing estates prompted the Archdeacon of Sheffield, the Ven. Malcolm Chamberlain, to raise the issue nationally.. He told the General Synod in July: “We can and we must do better as a nation.
Church growth in the North hampered by supply, not ... - The …
5 days ago · THE “huge variation” in attendance trajectories between churches and dioceses suggests that growth is “hampered more by constraints on the supply of church than by falling demand”, a new report on the Northern Province concludes.. New in the North: New worshipping communities in the Northern Province 2023, by the Ven. Bob Jackson and Dr Bev Botting, draws on Statistics for Mission [SfM ...
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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Jan 13, 2025 · Concerns over content lead dioceses to leave X/Twitter. DIOCESES are leaving the social-media site X (formerly Twitter), referring to concerns about the direction of the platform, which was acquired by the South African businessman Elon Musk in 2022
Rise in religiously aggravated hate crime ‘needs action’ says bishop
Oct 18, 2024 · THE Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, has called for a national strategy to address the rise in religiously aggravated hate crime, after Home Office statistics published last week showed an increase of 25 per cent in the past year.. In the House of Lords on Tuesday, Dr Smith asked what action the Government was taking against religious hate crime and to “strengthen community cohesion”.
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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 ...
AI ministry better than nothing, Church Times survey says
May 3, 2024 · EARLY results from the latest Church Times survey suggest that half the Anglican respondents agree that being ministered to by artificial intelligence (AI) is preferable to no ministry at all.. More than 3000 people have so far responded to the Church 2024 survey, launched last month (News, 12 April), and which closes later this year.In an early sampling of 1772 of the responses, just three ...