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  • 30 Apr 2007
    Church groups urge closure of tax loopholes

    Church groups are demanding that Gordon Brown closes legal loopholes used by the super-rich to avoid tax.

  • 29 Apr 2007
    London rally for Darfur is part of global action to end killing

    Thousands of campaigners from civic and church groups have gathered in Downing Street to remind Tony Blair and world leaders that time is running out for Darfur, where 200,000 people have been killed and millions displaced.

  • 29 Apr 2007
    Salvation Army assists with Kent earthquake evacuation

    An unexpected earthquake off the coast of Kent led to huge disruption but few casualities yesterday. The Salvation Army was among those assisting with evacuation and emergency support.

  • 28 Apr 2007
    Archbishop of Canterbury says sorry for child abuse errors

    Dr Rowan Williams has expressed his "deep sorrow" over mistakes made by the Church of England in the Peter Halliday child abuse case, affirming its tough policy and calling for vigilance.

  • 28 Apr 2007
    London exhibition shows early Christian, Jewish and Muslim texts

    Some of the earliest surviving texts of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths are being exhibited side by side for the first time in London, displaying their common roots as well as differences.

  • 27 Apr 2007
    Attempt to revive Jerry Springer The Opera prosecution

    The maverick Christian campaigner Stephen Green has won a legal challenge to a magistrate’s decision not to grant a private blasphemy prosecution against Jerry Springer The Opera. But the ultimate casualty of this could be the archaic blasphemy law itself.

  • 26 Apr 2007
    Church claims Halliday abuse mistake wouldn’t happen now

    After the jailing of a choirmaster for sexual abuse against children in the 1980s, the Church of England says that the mistake of failing to report an abuser to the police would not happen now. But the case highlights the need for extra vigilance and robust child protection policies.

  • 26 Apr 2007
    Leading evangelical John Stott announces retirement

    Perhaps the UK's best known twentieth century evangelical representative, a former chaplain to the Queen, has announced he is retiring. John Stott has been a major voice in world Christianity and a big influence in his own Anglican church.

  • 26 Apr 2007
    Child protection is our priority, says Church of England

    Amid accusations that it has failed to act properly in abuse cases stemming from the past, the Church of England has made child safety a priority. Its current policies and procedures are demonstrably rigorous and caring, it says.

  • 26 Apr 2007
    Bishop urges voters to unseat BNP councillors

    A senior Church of England bishop who has a number of British National Party (BNP) councillors in his diocese, has written in an anti-fascist magazine, urging Christians to vote against the party in the forthcoming local elections.