London 2012: Church offers Olympic reporters a bed; Daily readings to accompany Olympics; “Faith, Poverty and Justice” – Lambeth Palace Inter-Faith Event with DFID; Church improvements and VAT: New transitional arrangements; Ordinariate returns £1m grant to charity after ruling; Chip of the old flock
London 2012: Church offers Olympic reporters a bed
St Bride’s church on Fleet Street has allocated beds to cash-strapped journalists from Togo, Croatia and Romania
http://www.aco.org/acns/digest/index.cfm/2012/6/27/London-2012-Church-offers-Olympic-reporters-a-bed
Daily readings to accompany Olympics
Daily readings will be released throughout the London Olympics this summer to encourage Christians in their own “race of faith”. Muscle man Samson, the shot-thrower David, and the inspirational 1924 Olympic winner Eric Liddell are just some of the figures who will crop up on the Run the Race website to provide inspiration during the Games.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/daily.readings.to.accompany.olympics/30151.htm
“Faith, Poverty and Justice” – Lambeth Palace Inter-Faith Event with DFID
Lambeth Palace hosted a launch this week of the Department for International Development’s ‘Faith Partnership Principles’ by Secretary of State, Andrew Mitchell.
http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/6/27/ACNS5130
Church improvements and VAT: New transitional arrangements
The Church of England welcomed the announcement from HM Revenue and Customs that transitional arrangements for zero-rated VAT for alterations to cathedral and church buildings will be extended to cover all schemes which had already applied for a faculty or approval under the Care of Cathedrals Measure.
http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2012/06/church-improvements-and-vat-new-transitional-arrangements.aspx
Ordinariate returns £1m grant to charity after ruling
Catholic Herald – The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has returned a £1 million grant to an Anglo-Catholic charity after the Charity Commission ruled that it was invalid.
The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, founded in 1862, gave the money a year ago to ensure that the ordinariate’s priests would not be left penniless. It represented almost half of the charity’s assets.
The Charity Commission, however, said the grant was invalid because most of the trustees who agreed to it had a “personal financial interest” in it. Five out of six of its trustees had already been ordained as priests in the ordinariate.
The commission also ruled that there was “substantial doubt” over whether use of the money would be consistent with the charity’s objects – ”the advancement of the Catholic faith in the Anglican tradition”.
The ruling contradicts the advice lawyers gave to the charity before it approved the grant.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/06/28/ordinariate-returns-1m-grant-to-charity-after-ruling/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Chip of the old flock
One of Britain’s first female vicars is to see her daughter follow in her footsteps on the 25th anniversary of women clergy members.
Ruth Fitter’s ordination this weekend will be watched by Canon Pat Lyes-Wilsdon, who was among the first female priests.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164985/Chip-old-flock-One-female-vicars-set-watch-daughter-ordained-priest.html?ito=feeds-newsxml