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‘Get off bums and support unemployed’ THE FULL IMPACT of the recession will be felt only as unemployment begins to bite, charity workers warned this week. Subscriber only	Sacked staff see cash at last STAFF sacked from the former SPCK bookshops are receiving their first compensation payments. Subscriber only	Enthusiasts turn up to honour clergy twister CORKSCREW ADDICTS from around the world will gather in Bow Church, east London, on Monday to honour the Revd Samuel Henshall. Subscriber only

US faith groups urge support for Obama reforms FAITH groups in the United States are urging “the silent majority” of Christians who support President Obama’s health-care reforms to stand up and be... Subscriber only	Food crisis as Kenya dries up THEY ARE praying that the rains will not fail in Kenya this October, as they have failed for five years. Subscriber only	Cows can be good news for the environment, says charity COWS, accused of being a significant cause of global warming because they emit methane, can help reduce greenhouse gases Subscriber only

Biofuels benefits in doubt BIOFUELS, once regarded as a potential saviour of the environment, threaten to starve the poor in order to keep the cars of the rich running. Subscriber only	UFO leader has landed A CANADIAN priest, Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, has been appointed to the new post of director for Unity, Faith and Order at the Anglican Communion Office... Subscriber only	Terry Waite may stand as an MP TERRY WAITE, a former secretary for Anglican Communion affairs to the Archbishop of Canterbury, may stand as an independent parliamentary candidate... Subscriber only

Airborne invitation Hundreds of people attending the Detling Summer Festival in Kent attached the name of someone they were praying for to a balloon. Subscriber only	New priest is to be bishop in Zimbabwe A NEWLY ORDAINED priest has been elected the next Bishop of Manicaland, in Zimbabwe. Subscriber only	Warm welcome The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who is on a seven-country tour of Africa, last week applauded the work of Heal Africa in Goma. Subscriber only

Diocese faces cutbacks after losses THE media department of the diocese of Sydney is facing deep cuts as a result of the diocese’s financial losses Subscriber only	News in brief Now you see it; Iranian hunger strikers in hospital; Show mercy to bomber, says Kirk official; Missing chef prayed for in York Minster Subscriber only	‘Angel of the swamps’ named as saint THE NEWEST saint in the calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States is Deaconess Harriet Bedell. Subscriber only

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