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7515 - 23 March 2007

This week's issue commemorates the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act with special features including a shocking history showing the Church's involvement, a review of Amazing Grace, the new film about William Wilberforce, a look at how slavery still exists in the UK in various forms and a piece about the slave-trade's legacy on black-led and black-majority churches. But you won't be able to read these moving and fascinating pieces if you are not a subscriber.

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Today’s slavery highlighted as 1807 film opens

THE DIRECTOR of the film Amazing Grace, Michael Apted, has defended it against the criticism that it does not show in detail the horrors of the...

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Christians fight on gay Regulations

CONFUSION surrounded the introduction of the Government’s Sexual Orientation Regulations this week.

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‘More must be done to protect priests’

MORE THAN 300 people attended St Fagan’s, Trecynon, in South Wales, on Sunday.

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US bishops wish ‘passionately’ to stay in Communion

Bishops in the United States have rejected the scheme for pastoral oversight for dissenting congregations proposed by the Primates in Tanzania last month...

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Work as partners, urges Irish Primate

THE new Primate of All Ireland, the Most Revd Alan Harper, used his enthronement in Armagh on Friday to press for a return of the Northern Irish Assembly...

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Elton’s Tobago visit opposed

THE ARCHDEACON of Tobago, the Ven. Philip Isaac, has opposed the appearance of Sir Elton John at the island’s Plymouth Jazz Festival next month.


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