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Simon Parke: Uncoupled in Lille Zut alors! Is this the end of marriage in France? Subscriber only	Back the people, not their rulers THE international community has offered further incentives in recent weeks to the Iranian government to counter its defiance about its nuclear programme... Subscriber only	Independence can be a Good Thing The men who signed the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776 believed they were doing something of world-shaking importance. Subscriber only

New prayers for everyday cares When worshippers open up their prayer book in British synagogues this month, they are in for a shock. Subscriber only	Paul Vallely: When in doubt, attack the Church When in doubt, attack the Church. Subscriber only	Giles Fraser: Don’t let the church anoraks take over WHEN I look around at the lay people on the General Synod, they don’t look much like the lay people I see in the pews on Sundays. Subscriber only

Leader: Not the time for hasty reactions THERE ARE, of course, no women bishops in the Church of England; nor will there be for several years. Subscriber only	100 years ago: Bishops united . . . and fasting At the Solemn Eucharist for the Lambeth Conference in Westminster Abbey, the Primate of All England pontificated. Subscriber only	Britain could have GM babies by the back door ‘Children born of such a procedure would be experiments’ Subscriber only

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