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Two more supermarkets agree to lighten the mood of Hallowe’en A CHURCH of England campaign launched a year ago to combat the scarier side of Hallowe’en has found two more recruits. Subscriber only	Hopeful feet reach Lambeth MARCHERS who walked 1000 miles through Northern Ireland and around Britain to galvanise the country into action on climate change were met by a delegation... Subscriber only	Ditch collars, says security adviser A NATIONAL PROGRAMME to help the clergy protect themselves against violent crime is to be made available to clerics and dioceses across England and Wales... Subscriber only

Official support for US Bishops, while others doubt The Joint Standing Committee of the Primates and of the Anglican Consultative Council (JSC) has signalled its approval of the statement released by the... Subscriber only	Burma crackdown increases calls for oil-firm boycott CHRISTIANS who organised a boycott of a Total petrol station in central Bradford last week, through the Facebook internet group, have called on other... Subscriber only	Branson on peace mission to Darfur DR DESMOND TUTU, the former Archbishop of Cape Town, led a party of senior statesmen earlier this week on a trip to Darfur in the Sudan. Subscriber only

‘Parallel Church’ for North America A SMALL GROUP of bishops from the Common Cause Partnership abandoned the New Orleans meeting to attend the partnership’s own meeting in Pittsburgh. Subscriber only	Elvis’s favourite preacher Mourners wait in line as the Revd Rex Humbard, the first US televangelist, who died on 21 September, lies in state Subscriber only	Derby Dean to resign at end of year THE DEAN of Derby, the Very Revd Dr Martin Kitchen, is to resign at the end of December, after more than a year on indefinite study-leave. Subscriber only

C of E advertises for a Brussels rep THE Church of England is advertising for a £40,000-a-year clergy “ambassador” to tell Europe what it wants from the European Union. Subscriber only	Ecumenical school opens The first joint Anglican and Roman Catholic school in Gloucester diocese, Christ College, was officially opened in the city last week by the Bishop of... Subscriber only	CAP hopes to bring cheer at Christmas JUST over 11 weeks (81 shopping days) to Christmas, a national debt-counselling charity is appealing for some seasonal help. Subscriber only

News in brief Model pair; Welsh headmaster to head RSCM; Muslim worker exempted from touching alcohol; New Principal appointed for Mirfield; Religious Hatred Act comes... Subscriber only	Unwitting donor gets organ back AN ORGAN SUPPLIER said this week that it was reviewing its security procedures after con men in Scotland stole a £60,000 organ by posing as church officials... Subscriber only	Bishops nag Mr Brown for a Palestinian answer THREE BISHOPS are still waiting for a reply to a letter about the plight of the Palestinians which they sent to Gordon Brown in June. Subscriber only

Wycliffe Hall criticised by resigning governor CLARE MACINNES, a member of the Council of Wycliffe Hall, the increasingly troubled Evangelical theological college in Oxford, wrote to its chairman on... Subscriber only	From the depths to the heights St Mary’s, Dalton-in-Furness, in Cumbria, is to receive a £114,000 grant from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. Subscriber only	End of the year Police remove a protester from the Faslane naval base in Scotland. Subscriber only

More than 9000 live to 100 The secret of a long life is “living each day as fully as you can”, said the Revd Kingsley Laws, who celebrated his 101st birthday three weeks ago. Subscriber only	News in brief Hope; Guide backs infant baptism for baptised families; Bishops thank Prince for farm fund-raising help; C of I canon resigns over child porn; Antipodean... Subscriber only	Troubled region The Archbishop of Canterbury has returned from his visit to Armenia, Syria, and Lebanon Subscriber only

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