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- Light show
- Pretty church still trumps nice vicar
- Rivers of the flood
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- Money for school music
- Holy confection
- The Ulsterman from Staffordshire
- Thank you for the music
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- Refugee ban overturned
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- Sotheby’s exhibition helps Venice church
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 Three new categories for parents who want a C of E school placeNEW guidelines for Church of England schools, published this week by the Board of Education, suggest three criteria for assessing church commitment when... |
 Stamps to mark slavery’s endTHE bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade will be marked by elements of penance and praise. |
 US bishop lashes Williams for coldness and contemptTHE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury has come under fierce criticism from the Bishop of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, the Rt Revd Paul Marshall, for a perceived... |
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 Iraqi Christians may never returnTHOUSANDS of Iraqi Christians have sought refuge in Damascus and may never return to Iraq, a Christian campaigning charity, the Barnabas Fund, warned... |
 Priest houses ex-prisoner in his shedA WAKEFIELD priest allowed a newly released prisoner to live in a six-by-ten-foot shed at the bottom of the vicarage garden. |
 Methodists get ready to grasp the finance nettleJOHN ELLIS has the unenviable job of implementing the decision, made by the Methodist Conference last year, to reduce his Church’s central budget by 3... |
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Light showChanging images of sections of the east window at York Minster are digitally projected on to scaffolding. |
Pretty church still trumps nice vicarCOUPLES who plan to get married in church often want to check out the building — but they may just be trying to get the measure of the cleric who will... |
Rivers of the floodthe Ouse has burst its banks near Bishopthorpe Palace, York, the Archbishop’s residence. |
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Readers are asked if they want to be ordained deaconThe 10,000 Readers in the Church of England are being asked whether they want to be ordained deacon. |
Money for school musicCHURCH and cathedral choirs are expected to benefit from a government announcement that £10 million is to be spent on music in primary schools. |
Holy confectionGeorge D’Aubney displays his four-foot-tall iced fruitcake |
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The Ulsterman from StaffordshireANYONE who did not know that the Rt Revd Alan Harper hailed originally from Tamworth could be forgiven for thinking that he was native Irish. |
Thank you for the musicAsylum-seekers enjoy musical activities at Scargill, the Christian community in the Yorkshire Dales |
Totnes prayer ban criticisedA DECISION by a Devon town council to stop the prayers said at the beginning of monthly council meetings has been criticised by locals. |
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News in briefSouth Atlantic episcopate; Crucifix ban applies to necks, not lapels; His space may link to MySpace; Ipswich churches praised after murders; Blind Mission... |
‘Threatened’ activist is called a liarTHE director of Changing Attitude, the Revd Colin Coward, has called on the Church of Nigeria publicly to condemn violence against lesbian and gay people... |
Refugee ban overturnedA VICAR in Tamworth, in New South Wales, Australia, has been instrumental in persuading the local council to overturn its ban on five Sudanese refugee... |
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Canada abuse deal has Church backingTHE Anglican Church of Canada has welcomed the latest stage in the approval of compensation for about 80,000 students of former Indian residential schools... |
Sotheby’s exhibition helps Venice churchSOTHEBY’S in London has hosted a special exhibition this week to raise funds for St George’s, an Anglican church in Venice. |
Lords criticise mental-health legislationBISHOPS last week backed a “watershed” decision to give mentally ill people the right to refuse treatment if they have the capacity to make the decision... |
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Church schools ride high in tablesSIX Anglican schools were among the 50 leading comprehensives in national league tables announced last week and based on last summer’s GCSE results. |
NHS trust not out of the woodsStress-related illness has hit two of the three full-time hospital chaplains in Worcester hospitals. |
Focus on FaithDon McCullin photographed ten faith leaders for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery |
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