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Lambeth opening is low-key, less formal, ‘less triumphal’

THE ARRIVAL was low-key: relaxed bishops sauntering down the cobbled street towards the Cathedral

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Resign for our sake, Sudan’s Archbishop urges Robinson

SUDANESE ANGLICANS are being insulted by Muslims because of the Anglican Communion’s perceived stance on homosexuality.

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Clarity needed before next ACC — Archbishop Chew

IT WOULD be unwise to dismiss the Sudanese statement and the comment that followed it as solely an African voice.

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Covenant is flawed and colonialist, says GAFCON

THE GAFCON group has rejected the St Andrew’s draft text of the Anglican Covenant, describing it as “seriously limited and severely flawed”.

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Churches join to tackle gang violence

CHURCH leaders came together on Monday to express their concern over the recent spate of knife crime and gang-related violence in British cities.

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Government gives £7.5m for all religions to work together

THE GOVERNMENT this week announced an investment of £7.5 million into interfaith work across the country

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We are the champions

Cranmer Hall, in Durham, produced its own version of the Gillette “Champions” advertisement.

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Cathedral helps restore historic riverside gardens in Durham

DURHAM Cathedral is involved in a £6-million scheme to restore a lost treasure of the North-East, it was announced this week.

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Progress on goals ‘too modest’

THE Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are realistic, achievable, and time-bound, said the Anglican observer at the UN

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‘Fight the anti-God monster’

THE HEAD of the Vatican’s mission department, Cardinal Ivan Dias, addressed the Conference on Tuesday night.

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Outside the tent

Although it takes place on an open campus, most of the Conference’s official sessions — and some of the unofficial ones — are closed.

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SPCK shops’ bankruptcy petition meets a hitch

THE OWNERS of the former SPCK bookshops chain have been halted by inconsistencies in their petition from declaring themselves bankrupt.

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Heavenly armour — against seagulls

Canon Graham Minors, Team Rector in the Bodmin Team Ministry, in Cornwall, has taken to wearing a hard hat.

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Christian PC fined over gay dispute seeks tribunal

A POLICEMAN in Norfolk, PC Graham Cogman, is going to an employment tribunal over his claim that he has faced discrimination at work because of his Christian...

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‘Conservatives must stick together’

HE WAS diplomatic about it, but it was clearly vexing to the Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone that he had not seen the published response to the...

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US bishop to realign his diocese

THE BISHOP of Central Florida, the Rt Revd John Howe, has withdrawn from the traditionalist Anglican Communion Network

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Pope calls for unity

THE POPE has called for a fresh effort for Christian unity while respecting Christian doctrine

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News in brief

Philippines bishops denounce family-planning bill; Africa’s ‘hidden famine’ continues; Orthodox rebuked for RC service; Buddhist monks attack church...

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One year on

Images of Tewkesbury, a year after the terrible floods

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NHS plans to give the dying more care and choice

THE NHS is to raise the profile of the treatment of patients who die in its care

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O moral Gower

Image of Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate and the comedian Terry Jones at Southwark Cathedral on Monday

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Commissioners lift axe on car loans

THE THREAT hanging over the Church Commissioners’ clergy car loans, which are worth £5.8 million a year, was lifted this month.

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Scam alert

A CLERIC in the diocese of Ely has urged churches to be vigilant, after a con man preyed on elderly members of his congregation

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Be honest, but hopeful, says Williams

THE Archbishop of Canterbury called on the bishops to face up to the Communion’s difficulties in his presidential address on Sunday.

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Church is ‘a bridge in a desert’

CHRISTIANITY should take second place to Christ in a new kind of evangelism fitted for a postmodern world.

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Anglican relations are getting worse, says Handford

A DOWNBEAT evaluation of the state of the Communion was delivered on Tuesday by the former Primate in Jerusalem & the Middle East.

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Campus proves stonier ground than Bosnia

THE EXCLUSION of the Bishop of New Hampshire from the Lambeth Conference programme was hindering reconciliation, said a mediation specialist on Monday...

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We develop ourselves. . . We complain to God

IT’S the women who are most strongly articulating the challenges of the contexts they come from.

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