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Church Times, 31 July 2009

This week subscribers can read how the persecuted Church in Pakistan is helping the country's three million internal refugees, despite facing increasing levels of hostility. Meanwhile the Bishop of Wakefield writes why he backs combining the sacraments of baptism and marriage in one service. In the news and letters sections there are reactions to the Archbishops' advice for intinction to be used at holy communion because of the swine flu pandemic. For more news and views see the Church Times blog

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Swine-flu lesson taken from Africa

TO PREVENT the spreading of swine flu via the chalice at holy communion, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have advised the use of intinction

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Marriage-with-baptism defended

WEDDINGS at which the couple’s children are also baptised have been legal for years, a Church House spokesman said this week.

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Two-track Communion will not exclude, says Williams

BROKEN bridges to the wider Anglican Communion will not be repaired by recent actions of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United...

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Kunonga attempts to stop Bishop’s enthronement

THOUSANDS of people from parishes all over Harare gathered in the city on Sunday to celebrate a double ceremony.

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Anger at gallery Bible exhibit

A CHORUS of protest has caused an exhibit in the show “Made In God’s Image”, at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Glasgow to be placed under glass.

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Books’ new life in academia

A RARE copy of a 1502 hymnal is among 400 books that St Mary’s, Nantwich, has donated to the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester.

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