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March 15, 2007

What has happened to the Free Churches?

Keith Clements argues that the Free Churches need to work rigorously for a genuinely ecumenical movement – not one dominated by established Anglican and Catholic interests
March 15, 2007

A crie de coeur (and top lip)

Freelance theologian Theo Hobson has made a passionate call for disestablishment. He should get rid of that moustache, though.
March 12, 2007

Anglicans and Presbyterians encourage people to get hitched

Wedding fairs, guides and web advisers are the latest ways of trying to get more people to marry in church
February 14, 2007

Sentamu calls for action on Northern Uganda conflict

Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu, who experienced first-hand the military dictatorship of Idi Amin, has called upon religious and political leaders – not least current Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni – to end to the “suffering and misery” of those impacted by the bloody conflict in Northern Uganda.
February 14, 2007

Welcome for Williams but interrogation for gay Christian in Tanzania

A warm East African welcome met Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams when he arrived in Tanzania yesterday (13 February 2007) for a crucial Anglican Primates' meeting ‚Ä' but a gay Christian leader from Nigeria had a different experience, being interrogated for several hours before being given a visa.
February 6, 2007

Prisons and opposition to Trident replacement on C of E agenda

The Church of England's General Synod is to be debate the Government's proposals to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system, as well as the crisis in Britain's prisons, it was announced yesterday.
February 1, 2007

House of Lords reform raises question about Church of England bishops

The automatic presence of 26 Church of England bishops in the unelected second chamber of parliament has been raised again, in light of the UK government's deliberations about House of Lords reform.
February 1, 2007

Church of England asked to acknowledge both sides of sexuality debate

The Church of England's governing body, its General Synod of lay people, clergy and bishops, will be asked to support a resolution recognising both sides in the current global debate on human sexuality when it meets later this month.
January 24, 2007

Surprise fall in Sunday church attendance

Figures just released by the Church of England record that regular Sunday church attendance in 2005 fell by over two per cent.
January 21, 2007

New Anglican primate favours disestablishment and an end to Catholic ban

The new head of the (Anglican) Church of Ireland has said that the 1701 Act of Settlement, which prevents a Catholic from marrying a monarch, should be abolished. He has also affirmed that the disestablishment of the Church of England would be a positive rather than a negative step.