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Archbishop of York acknowledges scale of task to restore trust in …
1 day ago · 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 …
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4 days ago · Government to introduce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. THE Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has pledged to introduce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, so that it becomes an offence, incurring professional and criminal sanctions, “to fail to report or to cover up” abuse
If a church closes, one fifth of the congregation won’t look for ...
Aug 21, 2024 · CHURCH closures can lead to a fall in overall church attendance, because worshippers are unwilling or unable to attend a different church, a new poll suggests.. The poll was commissioned by the National Churches Trust to draw attention to an increased rate of church closures in the UK. More than 3500 churches …
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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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 …
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 ...
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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 ...
‘Prolific, brutal and horrific’: Makin report calls out the Smyth …
Aug 13, 2018 · THE “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”, the long-awaited Makin review has concluded. The “Independent lessons learning review” by Keith Makin, originally due to be published five years ago, lists the Archbishop of Canterbury as among those who failed to …
‘In church-going terms, we have failed’ - The Church Times
Nov 8, 2024 · IT WAS one of the Church of England’s “South Bank Religion” sensations of the 1960s. In 1965, The Observer published an article by the Rector of Woolwich, the Revd Nick Stacey, headlined “A Mission’s Failure: The story of one church in pagan Britain”. Stacey, a former Olympic sprinter, had set himself the target of …