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Church’s redress scheme for abuse survivors to be delayed ‘in light …
15 小时之前 · REDRESS for survivors of church-related abuse is to be delayed, it was announced on Wednesday, to enable the eligibility criteria to be reviewed “in light of the Makin report”. The redress scheme had been expected to receive final approval at the General Synod next month (Synod, 12 July 2024 ...
Church growth in the North hampered by supply, not ... - The …
21 小时之前 · 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 ...
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6 天之前 · Pope calls for hope and truth in global diplomacy. THE Pope, accusing the world’s multilateral institutions of failing to uphold stability and peace, has called for a new “diplomacy of hope” to ensure truth, forgiveness, and justice
Archbishop of York acknowledges scale of task to restore trust in …
2025年1月8日 · THE question whether clergy should become employees could be asked this year, the Archbishop of York has said, on his first day holding the primatial functions of the Archbishop of Canterbury.. In an “Epiphany letter” sent on Monday to all clergy, lay ministers, and congregations in the Church of England, Archbishop Cottrell writes first of the need to “become a safer and more ...
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The Church Times. UK ‘What ifs’ come to the table around parishes; Clergy are scared of a culture of guilt and blame, says Bishop of Blackburn
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2025年1月6日 · Just Stop Oil marks hottest year so far in Westminster Abbey chalk protest. CLIMATE protesters defaced Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey temporarily on Monday, drawing attention to last week’s news that, in 2024, average temperatures had been, for the first time, more than 1.5ºC higher than in the pre-industrial era
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
2024年8月13日 · 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 ...
Rise in religiously aggravated hate crime ‘needs action’ says bishop
2024年10月18日 · 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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2024年4月5日 · 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 Liverpool”, Bishop Mason “remains away from the ...