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THE redress scheme for victims survivors of church-related abuse moved closer to completion, after the General Synod gave the ...
Requests were officially brought to the Supreme Court by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice ...
THE Russian Orthodox Church has moved to reinforce its presence among Orthodox leaders in neighbouring Belarus, with a ...
TO CELEBRATE the Feast of the Transfiguration without recalling the sombre 80th anniversary of Hiroshima would be spiritual ...
Many dioceses like ours have made exhaustive efforts to raise our level of giving . . . but sadly we have been unsuccessful’ says Bishop of Hereford ...
“DISCIPLINES of prayer”, liturgy, and contemplation of scripture were the “wellsprings” of faith, the Archbishop of York said in his presidential address to the General Synod on the Friday.
A Church whose hands are consecrated to bring life cannot support the prescription of life-ending drugs’ Bishop of London says ...
THE Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, who chairs the Triennial Funding Working Group (TFWG), introduced to the General Synod on the Friday the “ambitious financial package” agreed with the ...
Sam Margrave (Coventry) was going to vote against the Measure, which he described as a “power grab”. He was concerned about paying members of CENS and the “diminished role of Synod”. More people from ...
THE General Synod voted to amend the Church Representation Rules on the Monday. Its resolutions will now be laid before Parliament. Clive Scowen (London), for the Elections Review Group, reminded ...
THE General Synod voted on the Tuesday to replace the 1991 document Issues in Human Sexuality with the 2015 Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of the Clergy (GPCC) during the discernment process ...
AFTER a presentation and debate on the Sunday evening, the General Synod took note of the report Thy Kingdom Come: Renewing the call to prayer and evangelism.