Roadblocks appearing for the Ordinariate »
Former Anglicans who subsequently entered the Roman Catholic Church before Pope Benedict XVI may join the Anglican Ordinariate, a Catholic bishop has confirmed. However, concerns that roadblocks are being thrown up by the Catholic hierarchy...
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Council of Europe assemby calls for ban on euthansia »
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called for its member states to ban euthanasia. On 25 January 2012 the Strasbourg-based assembly adopted resolution 1859/2012 entitled “Protecting human rights and dignity by...
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Congo not backing the AMiA »
Claims the Anglican Mission in America has been given a home in the Anglican Church of the Congo are false, the Primate of the Congolese church, Archbishop Henri Isingoma of Kinshasa tells The Church of...
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Episcopal Church in sharp decline »
A statistical analysis presented to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church on 27 January 2012 reports the American church has experience a traumatic decline in all quantifiable areas of church life over the past...
February 2 2012 / No comment / Read More »Bishops back counsellor »
LORD CAREY and a number of bishops including the Rt Rev Peter Foster, the Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt, the Rt Rev Wallace Benn, and...
Feb 4 2012 / No comment / Read More »Synod urged to vote against the Archbishops’ motion on women »
WOMEN AND THE CHURCH (WATCH) has expressed strong opposition to the Diocese of Manchester’s amendment to the General Synod Measure for the ordination of...
Feb 3 2012 / No comment / Read More »Churches unite to oppose gay marriage plans »
CHURCHES IN England and Wales are opposing the Coalition Government’s plans to introduce gay marriage. Lynn Featherstone (Lib Dem), Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at...
Feb 2 2012 / No comment / Read More »London clergy want to conduct civil partnerships in churches »
LONDON CLERGY have written to The Times calling for priests to be given discretion over holding civil partnership services in their churches. The call...
Feb 2 2012 / No comment / Read More »Wesley Owen may close all but one of its stores »
The Christian bookshop chain Wesley Owen has announced that it may close all but one of its chain of shops. The move is being...
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