C of E: ‘fight trafficking’

HUMAN trafficking is completely contrary to Christian teaching, and deserves the same unremitting opposition as other forms of slavery, the C of E declares...

News in brief

Durham archdeacon goes south; Author of Street Bible dies; Bishop asks to see football fan; Akinola makes top-people’s list; Be flexible, says Sentamu...

No grudge, just a goal

THE six-NIL DEFEAT for the clergy who played imams at football in Leicestershire earlier this year (News, 27 January) has prompted an interdenominational...

Crops seized by Mugabe

FARMERS in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, are reported to be without income or food, after the seizure of their grain crops by President Mugabe’s army.

Bishops to meet RCs

The Church of England House of Bishops is to meet the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales later this year, in what will be the first...

Sri Lankans appeal for calm

CHURCH LEADERS in Sri Lanka have appealed to both the government and the Tamil rebels to end to the current wave of violence, which is threatening to...

New era for shop

THE SALE of Church House Bookshop to Hymns Ancient & Modern, announced earlier this year (News, 10 February), was completed last Friday.

Thousands flock to J. John’s tent

HUNDREDS had to be turned away from the first night of a mission in Devon last week led by the Anglican evangelist J. John.

Churches query schools code

THE Church of England and Roman Catholic education authorities are to ask government ministers to reconsider proposed changes to the ways in which oversubscribed...

Scoring for God

A campaign for vocations to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church is underway

Still time to TAP

EASTERTIDE is passing rapidly, but there is still time to give to the Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund appeal for 2006.



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