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Leader: Infringing rights of suspects IN ITS deliberations on the treatment of terrorist suspects, the General Synod properly concentrated on the length of time that suspects can be held without... Read more	100 years ago: Match-making in court SO FREQUENT has become the practice in police-courts of arranging marriages that the Howard Association is vigorously denouncing it. Read more	An ecumenical winter may be ripe for mission ‘In a diverse culture, diverse approaches eable us to reach more people’ Read more

Simon Parke: problems in reception POLICE? Doctors? Schools? Is there no one who can organise a decent reception area? Read more	The clear sight of middle-age I am on the verge of a crisis. Why? Read more	Awareness is the key to safety “the message to clergy is: ‘Don’t open the door,’” said a priest from Llandaff diocese, when we were on retreat in Wales. Read more

Giles Fraser: Why I worry about moral foreign policies While most of the media were unpicking the grammatical spaghetti of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said something... Read more	Paul Vallely: Religion can be a solution in Kosovo There has been little mention of religion this week, in the news about the declaration of independence by the small Balkan region of Kosovo. Read more	Why the new Covenant creates hope If the book of Isaiah shows the work of several authors, brought editorially into a single volume, then the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant is an... Read more

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