Episcopal Church congratulations on Diamond Jubilee ; Church Times – The Queen ‘sets example’ as she celebrates Jubilee; Archbishop of Canterbury’s video on The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee;’’Promiscuity, divorce and separation are at epidemic proportions,’ warns bishop in Jubilee message; Bibles available for Olympic athletes; Government U-turn on charity tax relief welcomed
Episcopal Church congratulations on Diamond Jubilee
The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church has written to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to offer the Church’s warmest congratulations and good wishes on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee, saying “We honour your sense of vocation. We admire and respect your unfailing commitment of service to your people in every walk of life; and we value the way in which you have quietly expressed the faith which strengthens you as you fulfil your calling.”
http://www.scotland.anglican.org/index.php/news/entry/diamond_jubilee/#When:14:46:07Z
Church Times – The Queen ‘sets example’ as she celebrates Jubilee
http://churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=129410
Archbishop of Canterbury’s video on The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Telegraph – Speaking in a short film produced by Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury talks about The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the significance of the 60 year reign “in which nationally and internationally so much has shifted”.
‘Promiscuity, divorce and separation are at epidemic proportions,’ warns bishop in Jubilee message
Daily Mail – Promiscuity, separation and divorce are at ‘epidemic’ proportions, a senior Church of England bishop has warned as he called for Britain to use the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee as an opportunity to reflect and reassess values.
The Rt Rev Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, writing in a Bible Society pamphlet about the origins of the word jubilee, said Britain was now an ‘enormously different’ society compared to 1952 – the year of the Queen’s accession to the throne – and in ‘so many ways’ a better place to live.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153423/Promiscuity-divorce-separation-epidemic-proportions–warns-bishop-Jubilee-address.html
Bibles available for Olympic athletes
Olympic athletes will be able to read their own copy of the Bible when the Games are held in London in July. The Olympic organizing committee, LOCOG, has allowed Bible Society to make Bibles available to athletes in the Olympic Village’s religious services centre.
Some 1,000 Bibles and 1,500 Gospels of Luke will be provided for sports chaplains to give to Olympians if appropriate. ‘I’m really excited about this,’ said Matthew van Duyvenbode, Bible Society’s Head of Advocacy. ‘It’s really important that we make a statement that the Bible is important in every sphere of public life, sports included.
‘When some of the athletes will be going through some of the most turbulent experiences of their lives we can demonstrate to them that the message of God’s comfort and understanding and reassurance are for them in the Scriptures.’
Some £10,000 is now needed to provide Olympic athletes
with Bibles.
If you’d like to help towards this, then call 01793 418100 or visit biblesociety.org.uk/olympics/
Government U turn on charity tax relief welcomed
Christian Today – The Association of Christian Financial Advisers has welcomed the Governments rethink on charity tax relief
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/government.uturn.on.charity.tax.relief.welcomed/29970.htm