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Church Times, 8 January 2010This week subscribers can read features about Christian guerrilla gardeners and why English churchyards are rare havens for flora and fauna, while columnist Giles Fraser reminisces about his experience of living in Yemen. There is all the latest news from the Church of England, and an obituary of the former Bishop of London Graham Leonard, who died this week. Check out the Church Times blog for more news and views. |
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Bishop and union clash over bullyingTHE Bishop of Ripon & Leeds, the Rt Revd John Packer, has rejected claims by the Unite trade union that bullying among the clergy is “rife”. |
RC school’s criteria not ‘fair’A HIGH-ACHIEVING Roman Catholic comprehensive school in west London will have to change its admissions criteria |
Bishops in Lords receive £135,000CHURCH of England bishops claimed just over £135,000 from the public purse for attending the House of Lords in the past financial year. |
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Turkey may claim St Nicholas’s relicsA REQUEST by Turkey for the return of St Nicholas’s bones from their current resting place in Italy would be “terribly hypocritical” |
Float around, said god BCA CLAY tablet dating from 1700 BC has shed new light on a possible prototype of Noah’s ark. It was circular. |
Churches aid rise of food-bank schemesRECESSION and redundancy have prompted a huge rise in the number of food banks giving out emergency supplies to people in crisis in the UK. |
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