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Greenbelt festivalgoers undaunted by weather
The festival combined music of all styles with speakers for all tastes, along with theatre, film, comedy, debate, the visual arts, dance, and worship.
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African bishops split over ‘ambushed’ agenda, but together on development
AFRICANS must take their destiny into their own hands and address their own problems, bishops of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa declared.
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‘Cancel Pakistan’s debt’ relief plea
WATER levels in Pakistan are beginning to recede, officials believe, although river levels are still dangerously high.
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Daly hits out at ‘smearing’ of Fr Chesney
THE former Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, Dr Edward Daly, has come out of retirement to express disquiet at the media coverage of an Ombudsman’s report.
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Doctors’ religious beliefs ‘may affect end-of-life care’
DOCTORS who hold religious beliefs are less likely to take decisions that could hasten the death of a terminally ill patient, a new study suggests.
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Villagers seek family of vicar who died after 1942 air crash
PARISHIONERS in Llangrove, Herefordshire, want to trace the descendants of a former Vicar who died when a British bomber crashed there.
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CE schools’ top results
THREE Church of England schools were among the 30 top-achieving comprehensives in England and Wales.
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Campaign saves church for worship
THE group campaigning to retain St Mark’s, North Audley Street, as a place of worship appears to have won a victory in its long-running struggle.
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On the streets
The Bishop of Lancaster, the Rt Revd Geoff Pearson, sleeps rough on the steps of the Town Hall.
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Report urges stricter rules on school admissions
A NEW report, published last month by Barnardo’s, has called for stricter rules on secondary-school admissions.
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Rare Saxon window uncovered
A SAXON window, one of the oldest working wooden windows in England, has been discovered in the diocese of Oxford.
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Post-protest ceremony
The Dean of Bradford, the Very Revd Dr David Ison, on Sunday, sprinkles holy water.
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Overseas news in brief
Indian police ‘colluded in anti-Christian violence’, Churches praise Vedanta mining decision, Christian hostage released in Sudan
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For those in peril
A cross erected in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet commemorates the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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Bishop Bennison returns to work in diocese amid outcry
THE Bishop of Pennsylvania vowed “to listen and observe” people in his diocese, as he returned to work after an appeal court ruling.
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Triumph for Carter in North Korea
THE former President of the United States Jimmy Carter travelled to North Korea last week to help to secure the release of an American Christian activist from prison.
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Parish WLTM candidate with GSOH for LTR
A CHURCH in Sheffield has come up with a novel way to find a new incumbent — by posting an advertisement in the form of a lonely-hearts message.
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Home news in brief
Big Society” contribution; Budget hits poorest hardest, says CAP; Three charged over church-hall fire; Bishop finds just-war theory contradictory
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Bishop Conway to be translated to Ely
THE Bishop of Ramsbury, the Rt Revd Stephen Conway, was named as the new Bishop of Ely on Tuesday.
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Arches Court overturns ruling on listed church
THE Court of Arches last month overturned a decision of Chancellor Coates in the Consistory Court of Lichfield.
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Bishop raises Essex island’s Bethlehem-twinning hopes
PLANS to twin Mersea Island, in Essex, with the city of Bethlehem have
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Gay group welcomes the Pope
THE Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) has called on gay Christians to celebrate the Pope’s visit to Britain.
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Leaky ceiling
A worker inspects David and Goliath by Titian, in Santa Maria della Salute
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Now a focus of unity
Worshippers at an ecumenical service in St Martin’s, Coney Street, York, dip their hands in the font where the recusant Margaret Clitherow was baptised.
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Health scheme planned for US Methodist clergy
A NEW study in the United States suggests that ministers in the United Methodist Church are in surprisingly poor health.
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Interview: Chris Goodall, economist and author
‘Perhaps we should maintain the churches but worship elsewhere’
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Faith in the power of fiction
In the month of the bicentenary of Elizabeth Gaskell’s birth, Ann Peart, another Unitarian, examines her religious convictions
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‘My books are so much better than I am’
Jackie Wilkin considers the part that religion plays in the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell
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Cricket: Down to Southgate in the Rover 14
Richard Williams saw the 1957 final as a ten-year-old
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Cricket: No shame in the Parsons’ Derby
Stephen Fay looks back on the eve of the 60th Church Times Cup final
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Maggie Durran: Landfilling bid
We are making a bid to a landfill trust for community building funds; they have asked about environmental issues and how we are addressing them.
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