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Warming up |
 New Bishop: Canon Trevor Williams, Rector of Holy Trinity and St Silas with Immanuel, North Belfast, in Connor diocese, has been elected Bishop of Limerick & Killaloe. Canon Williams, who is 59, formerly led the Corrymeela community. He is married to Joyce, and they have three sons |
 High point: nearly 80 people joined a celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Oxford Movement, at the University of Wales, Lampeter, on Saturday |
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Each must act on climate change, says Reade LORD WOOLF’s committee’s report on the ethics of Britain’s biggest defence company, BAE Systems, has been labelled “absurd” by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). It says that it ignores central questions, such as the sale of weapons to regimes such as Saudi Arabia. The halting of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into alleged bribery during an arms deal with Saudi Arabia is now the subject of a House of Lords appeal. “It is absurd to ask a committee to report on the ethics of an arms company without even considering whether it is ethical to arm dictatorships, or to engage in the arms trade at all,” Symon Hill of CAAT said. Parliament welcomes Hope campaign A CROSS-PARTY GROUP of MPs has backed Hope ’08, a year-long initiative encouraging churches to get more involved in community service, with an Early Day Motion in Parliament. www.hope08.com Chartres rejects term ‘faith schools’ THE Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Richard Chartres, has called for “constructive conversation” between people of different faiths and “dogmatic secularists”. The alternative, he said, was conflict. Speaking during a debate on interfaith dialogue in the House of Lords, he also objected to use of the term “faith school”. “The term ‘faith school’ is often used to suggest that the head teacher of the local C of E primary is really the sinister agent of some mind-bending cult. What is supposed to be the opposite of a faith school? Is it a ‘doubt school’, perhaps?” Mystery churchgoer will offer feedback THE organisation Christian Research is launching a mystery-visitor scheme, ChurchCheck, in partnership with the company Retail Maxim. Mystery churchgoers will assess everything from noticeboards to the sermon — for a payment of £60 plus VAT per visit from the church under scrutiny. Back to Church goes global BACK to Church Sunday will go global and interdenominational on 28 September, when it will be extended to Anglican churches in New Zealand and Canada, Churches Together in Scotland, the Church in Wales, and Baptist, Methodist, and United Reformed churches nationally. The campaign started in Manchester diocese in 2004. |
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