Churches getting ready to open homeless winter shelters; Bishop Wallace Benn to retire; Church support for community energy is vital tool in combatting fuel poverty, says Energy Secretary; Supermarket watchdog must have real powers Traidcraft
Corrymeela's new village honours founder; Holywood Parish send a team to Uganda; Memorial to former rector; 110 years of Mothers’ Union; Zion School’s 150th Anniversary; Fermanagh Victims satisfied with Taoiseach meeting; NI Schools failed over leadership; Offenders' hostel open 'in weeks'
Bishop of Sheffield's address to Bishops in Rome; C of E Statement in support of World Food Day; Letters from Uncle Eustace the perfect AngloCatholic; Sussex church releases silence on CD
The Archbishop commented particularly on diocesan renewal, the link with Connor diocese, human sexuality, education and inter-faith relations at the annual synod of Dublin and Glendalough in Taney yesterday.
Diocesan Growth Team launches website; Cork hosts Indian Orthodox service; Belvoir Parish celebrates its 50th Anniversary; Clergy visit Inland Waterways; ‘Journeying Through Depression’ healing service; Zion Harvest Concert; Fears over NI education body plans; How Wilson's Hospital made the big switch; Children’s charity hit by €1.5m loss as donations fall
Prayer for Parents’ Week: “Make a moment”, says Bishop of Oxford; New resource for emergency pastoral essentials; The cathedral as a broad church report; Christianity Uncut refutes 'untrue' comments about St Paul's protest; Don't ignore Christian voters PM warned; Ten years before church gay weddings – Jeffrey John; "Massive shift from aid to enterprise is welcome" - Lord Carey
Father Ted to launch C of I cleric’s novel; St Patrick’s Choristers to Release New CD; Mothers’ Union welcomes Children’s Rights Referendum; Limerick Clergy Conference; Down Clergy Conference this week; Church of Ireland benefit horse ride; Northern Ireland education reform essential; Legal costs in Dublin of child abuse
See Music this site - Tomorrow’s Choral Evensong on BBC Radio3 is from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and includes the first broadcast of a new composition commissioned for the Choirbook for the Queen. Also - news of events, publications and releases - including a new CD from St Patrick's Choristers
Last week a major survey of church adherence in the USA showed a decline of Protestants from a majority position. This was seized on by UK columnists, foremost of whom was Damian Thompson of the Daily Telegraph
Swift symposium; Past choristers’ evensong; Diocesan synods; Cork Clergy conference; Ordination 60th anniversary; DUFEM Godfrey Day lecture; Prisons Week; Cuts prompt Protestant schools to seek talks; Extract from “Quo Vadis? Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law” by Mary McAleese; Brady to go as new cardinal is lined up; Sinn Fein opposes abortion change; Abortion clinic 'to be regulated'
Welsh churches look for closer unity; Forward in Faith director to retire; Death of Sir Stuart Bell MP; A day of judgment for liberal bishops; Activists stage pulpit protest in St Paul’s
Poet & Composer combine in Limerick; St Fin Barre’s Antiques Valuation ‘Roadshow’; Christ Church Dean’s visit to Hong Kong; Cork service of remembrance; Swift symposium; Charity Fun Day and Craft Fair; Flower festival in Dunlavin; Eucharistic fellowship in Belfast; C of I synod member claims monogamy shortens long-term gay relationships
See World news this site - South Sudan double displacement: first from conflict and now from floods; WCC seeking workshop events for its 2013 assembly; Southern Africa: Anglican Church "Walks the walk"
Award to Cork Chaplain; Dublin - Inspiring Diocesan Growth; Harp Concert; Christian Aid challenges government on corporate tax-dodging; Seven suicides in east Belfast in 10 days
Archbishop of Canterbury speaks to Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops; Compass Rose Society honours Williams with musical premiere; Harvest festivals focus on foodbanks; Fertilisation and embryology services at risk: CofE responds to Department of Health consultation; BBC to rethink its coverage of EU, migration and Christianity after accusations programmes were unbalanced
Explore Christian Faith in Ireland of Today; 'Taste of Silence' in Christ Church; Voluntary position available; Inter Faith Agenda seminar; New Wine Sligo 2013; Former President McAleese in support of same-sex marriage
Canterbury on hate crimes; York on Jubilee debt; Research finds Christians not offended by jokes about Jesus
Eleven news reports and links to media
Church Army becomes Living Wage Employer; Churches challenge Governments green commitment; Bishop Nazir-Ali offers support to disaffected Tory grassroots over same-sex marriage proposal; Faithbased tree chocolates cant use Cadbury purple
Tuam potty walk; Clogher Friends; Clergy conference; Rector’s Farewell to Dundalk; John Hume becomes Papal Knight
See Music this site for tomorrows BBC Choral Evensong details, events, news and releases
Bishop Richard Clarke in his Presidential Address to the Synod in Tullamore Parish Centre on Saturday last stressed that the church in “Everything we do should be benchmarked against whether it is potentially advancing the Kingdom of God”
Mothers’ Union Gathering in Scotland; Church Mission Society commissions new leader; On board the Christian Aid Tax Justice Bus; New Dean for the Diocese of Argyll & The Isles; Leading Church historian received into Catholic church
SAMS partner; Service centres on addiction; Moira Institution; MEDIA REVIEW
Connor Diocese did Synod differently at St Brigid’s Church, Glengormley, on October 4.
Reform of parochial assessment welcomed; Cross community project funding withdrawn; Link with Sudan diocese renewed
We can resolve gay row, says new C of I Primate; Election of primate welcomed; DUFEM Godfrey Day Lecture; Priory Singers Coleraine concert; Cork palliative medicine workshop; Two same-sex partnerships every day since law change; ‘Children’s referendum will change nothing’; Irish Mormon Church hit by 30pc cash slump
Church Growth Research website launched; Clergy struggling to cope with bigger workloads; Conference to help churches address conflict; Anti-individualist, but Williams speaks his own mind; Yorkshire churches enter groundbreaking partnership; Church of England bishops urged to have honest discussion about gay clergy
This report by Sam McBride was published in the Newsletter on Thursday 4 October 2012 under the headline - Church faces massive finance problems. As well as finance, the report touches on resolving the gay marriage issue, the north-south differences in the church, and the type of church the C of I should be.
We can resolve gay row, says new C of I Primate; Election of primate welcomed; Priory Singers Coleraine concert; Cork palliative medicine workshop; Two same-sex partnerships every day since law change