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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
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Chief Rabbi pleads with Communion to stay one despite differences THE CHIEF RABBI, Sir Jonathan Sacks, made an impassioned plea to the Anglican Communion to hold together in spite of its differences. Read more		Group proposes standstill to ease Anglican tensions The “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... Read more		Surmise, frustration, and interest greet proposals INITIAL REACTIONS to the Windsor Continuation Group’s suggestions reflected a scepticism that exists within the group itself. Read more
Bishops given frank talk on rape and beatings RAPE is one of the biggest problems in Africa, Dr Maria Akrofi, wife of the Bishop of Accra, told a press conference on Tuesday. Read more		Asylum granted to gay Christian from Nigeria A CHRISTIAN fleeing from Nigeria, where the Church supports anti-gay legislation, was granted asylum in the UK last Friday after receiving death threats... Read more		Pre-Olympic report criticises China THE 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. Read more
Williams urges generous love ANGLICANS seem often to be threatening death to each other rather than offering life, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in a presidential address on Tuesday... Read more		Lawyers see 1662 as still able to unite A REPORT on law, which gives a central place to the Book of Common Prayer, could play a vital part in any rescue package. Read more		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. Read more
Spouses aim to build good faith ONE 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. Read more		BBC pursues costs of blasphemy case THE 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... Read more		Man held after cathedral stabbings A MAN was detained under the Mental Health Act this week after two women were stabbed at Lichfield Cathedral on Tuesday. Read more
Foreign News in Brief Manifestation; Al-Qaeda says dialogue is “new religion”; Ballooning priest’s body found in sea; Catholics want contraception; Indian Church condemns bombings... Read more		Anglicans fear after bomb FRESH SECURITY fears were triggered for the Anglican congregation in Istanbul this week, after bombs killed 17 people. Read more		Step up moral pressure over climate, Conference is told BISHOPS were told that the climate was a moral cause that the Church was well-placed to champion. Read more
Millennium Goals must be met, say Lambeth walkers A 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... Read more		Trade talks break down over protection for poor farmers THE Doha trade talks, which started long before the present food and energy crises, broke down on Tuesday. Read more		Up in smoke The destruction by fire on Monday of the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare caused “shock and great distress”. Read more
Sikh schoolgirl wins bracelet case A 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... Read more		Not just a pretty smell INDIAN FRANKINCENSE, which is similar to the frankincense mentioned in the Gospel story of the wise men, is good for arthritis, say researchers in the... Read more		News in Brief Top of his game; Marriage-visa age raised; Serious Fraud Office is cleared; Lord Carey condemns Mosley ruling; Clerics sentenced for child-abuse cases... Read more
Ecumenical participants grapple ECUMENICAL participants in the Lambeth Conference have told the Archbishop of Canterbury that all the Churches are grappling with the same issues. Read more		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... Read more		Mindanao peace accord ‘grave risk’ to Christians A DRAFT peace accord between Islamic secessionists in Mindanao and the government of the Philippines has prompted concern among Christians in the area... Read more
United The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexei II, at a service on Sunday Read more		Bakare gives warning over Zimbabwe NEGOTIATIONS brokered by South Africa between the President of Zimbabwe and the leader of the opposition party faltered this week. Read more