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- Chief Rabbi pleads with Communion to stay one despite differences
- Group proposes standstill to ease Anglican tensions
- Surmise, frustration, and interest greet proposals
- Bishops given frank talk on rape and beatings
- Asylum granted to gay Christian from Nigeria
- Pre-Olympic report criticises China
- Williams urges generous love
- Lawyers see 1662 as still able to unite
- Bishops tackle extremism and ‘daily business of dialogue’
- Spouses aim to build good faith
- BBC pursues costs of blasphemy case
- Man held after cathedral stabbings
- Foreign News in Brief
- Anglicans fear after bomb
- Step up moral pressure over climate, Conference is told
- Millennium Goals must be met, say Lambeth walkers
- Trade talks break down over protection for poor farmers
- Up in smoke
- Sikh schoolgirl wins bracelet case
- Not just a pretty smell
- News in Brief
- Ecumenical participants grapple
- Murphy-O’Connor warns of ‘ecumenical shadow’
- Mindanao peace accord ‘grave risk’ to Christians
- United
- Bakare gives warning over Zimbabwe
- Question of the week
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Chief Rabbi pleads with Communion to stay one despite differencesTHE CHIEF RABBI, Sir Jonathan Sacks, made an impassioned plea to the Anglican Communion to hold together in spite of its differences. |
Group proposes standstill to ease Anglican tensionsThe “preliminary observations” of the Windsor Continuation Group were seized on on Monday as a sign of how the Anglican Communion might patch up its divisions... |
Surmise, frustration, and interest greet proposalsINITIAL REACTIONS to the Windsor Continuation Group’s suggestions reflected a scepticism that exists within the group itself. |
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Bishops given frank talk on rape and beatingsRAPE is one of the biggest problems in Africa, Dr Maria Akrofi, wife of the Bishop of Accra, told a press conference on Tuesday. |
Asylum granted to gay Christian from NigeriaA CHRISTIAN fleeing from Nigeria, where the Church supports anti-gay legislation, was granted asylum in the UK last Friday after receiving death threats... |
Pre-Olympic report criticises ChinaTHE PRIMATE of Hong Kong, the Most Revd Paul Kwong, has rejected criticism of the Chinese government on the eve of the Olympic Games in Beijing. |
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Williams urges generous loveANGLICANS seem often to be threatening death to each other rather than offering life, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in a presidential address on Tuesday... |
Lawyers see 1662 as still able to uniteA REPORT on law, which gives a central place to the Book of Common Prayer, could play a vital part in any rescue package. |
Bishops tackle extremism and ‘daily business of dialogue’WESTERN ATTITUDES have generated misconceptions and clashes with Muslims, the Bishop of Lahore, Dr Alexander Malik, said this week. |
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Spouses aim to build good faithONE of the principal hopes that Jane Williams has for the Spouses’ Conference is to bring together the two worlds of Global North and Global South. |
BBC pursues costs of blasphemy caseTHE FOUNDER of the campaigning group Christian Voice, Stephen Green, has offered the BBC about a quarter of its costs after losing his High Court battle... |
Man held after cathedral stabbingsA MAN was detained under the Mental Health Act this week after two women were stabbed at Lichfield Cathedral on Tuesday. |
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Foreign News in BriefManifestation; Al-Qaeda says dialogue is “new religion”; Ballooning priest’s body found in sea; Catholics want contraception; Indian Church condemns bombings... |
Anglicans fear after bombFRESH SECURITY fears were triggered for the Anglican congregation in Istanbul this week, after bombs killed 17 people. |
Step up moral pressure over climate, Conference is toldBISHOPS were told that the climate was a moral cause that the Church was well-placed to champion. |
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Millennium Goals must be met, say Lambeth walkersA RIVER of purple-clad Anglican prelates — with just a sprinkling in white — and wives dressed in every colour under the sun flowed across Lambeth Bridge... |
Trade talks break down over protection for poor farmersTHE Doha trade talks, which started long before the present food and energy crises, broke down on Tuesday. |
Up in smokeThe destruction by fire on Monday of the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare caused “shock and great distress”. |
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Sikh schoolgirl wins bracelet caseA PUNJABI-WELSH school prefect who was barred from her school last November for wearing a kara, a Sikh religious symbol, has won her case in the High... |
Not just a pretty smellINDIAN FRANKINCENSE, which is similar to the frankincense mentioned in the Gospel story of the wise men, is good for arthritis, say researchers in the... |
News in BriefTop of his game; Marriage-visa age raised; Serious Fraud Office is cleared; Lord Carey condemns Mosley ruling; Clerics sentenced for child-abuse cases... |
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Ecumenical participants grappleECUMENICAL participants in the Lambeth Conference have told the Archbishop of Canterbury that all the Churches are grappling with the same issues. |
Murphy-O’Connor warns of ‘ecumenical shadow’A SHADOW has fallen over the relationship between Anglicans and Roman Catholics, the Archbishop of Westminster told bishops at the Lambeth Conference... |
Mindanao peace accord ‘grave risk’ to ChristiansA DRAFT peace accord between Islamic secessionists in Mindanao and the government of the Philippines has prompted concern among Christians in the area... |
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UnitedThe Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexei II, at a service on Sunday |
Bakare gives warning over ZimbabweNEGOTIATIONS brokered by South Africa between the President of Zimbabwe and the leader of the opposition party faltered this week. |
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