Damian Thompson of The Daily Telegraph commented yesterday, “Anglican Lefties have a new martyr in their midst – ex-Canon Giles Fraser, who has resigned from St Paul's Cathedral in protest at the decision to close the building.”
Church of England Evangelical Council Initial Statement on Proposals Regarding the Nature of Marriage states its concern at suggestions being supported by the Prime Minister that would radically redefine the concept of marriage.
The canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral has resigned from his post, BBC reports today, as the Cathedral prepares to re-open Friday.
At its height, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland owned or occupied more than 10,700 properties across the country and controlled nearly 6,700 religious and educational sites, The Irish Examiner reported yesterday.
New plans to reveal more about multinationals’ finances will help tackle corruption in the oil, gas and mining industries - but need toughening up if they are also to help poor countries fight multi-billion pound tax dodging, says UK-based international development agency Christian Aid.
Dublin lecture, Stewards needed for Belfast Cathedral, Christ Church exhibition, CMS Craft Night, RSCM Come and Sing
The News Letter reports today that the “conservative Church of Ireland group Reform Ireland has urged church lay people to withhold funds from the church.”
A short statement has been issued by the Bishop of London on the protest outside St Paul's Cathedral. Today’s editorial in The Guardian is titled - City and cathedral: The whited sepulchre - and states that "The dean and chapter of St Paul's risk playing the villains in a national pantomime."
In yesterday’s Irish Times a report stated that candidates in the Irish presidential election have been sent a letter by the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin asking that they support his proposal that it be made a national cathedral for all Irish Christians.
The Church of Scotland has launched a radical new regeneration programme to boost some of the poorest parts of the country. The Chance to Thrive project will work with eight communities on development initiatives over the next five years. Over the last decade the Church of Scotland has doubled its commitment to Scotland’s poorest neighbourhoods.
A Church of Ireland clergyman has called into question the suitability of Martin McGuinness for the role of Irish president, The Newsletter reported this week.
Headline: Martin McGuinness is a convicted terrorist yet he could be elected Ireland's new president.
People have a right to demonstrate, but the Occupy the London Stock Exchange group does not have a right to wreak havoc on St Paul's Cathedral, states the leader column in today’s Daily Telegraph.
The "Reform" group within the Church of England has called on the Church’s bishops to match the boldness of Roman Catholic bishops in speaking out against plans to redefine marriage.
The Church of Ireland Board for Social Theology in Action in a statement today says it ‘is most dismayed by reports in the media over the past several weeks of the increasing danger of fuel poverty in Northern Ireland.” The Board calls upon the Minister to intervene.
Bishop Patrick Rooke described some of the changes in the west of Ireland since his childhood in his sermon at yesterday’s service of enthronement in St Patrick’s cathedral, Killala.
C of I and All Ireland conkers festival, Four new Readers commissioned in Connor, Awards ceremony for organ scholars, Institution
The worldwide split in Anglicanism over gay issues has become linked to the concerns of some Church of England members concerned at the prospect of women bishops, Trevor Timpson reported on BBC News. He outlines the roles being played by AMIE and GAFCON in the current disputes.
Micah Challenge an international Christian movement is calling upon G20 leaders to tackle world poverty when they meet in France next month.
Homosexual groups in Scotland have received nearly ten times as much Government funding as church groups over the past decade.
The Government should take a stand on countries that persecute Christians, not only those that tolerate discrimination against homosexuals, says Ann Widdecombe, a former Tory minister.
Services and events
Derry Clergy study weeks, Tuam enthronement, Sources for Irish Genealogy
Bishop Ken Good in his address to the Derry & Raphoe Synod this week said - In the euro–zone, which includes half of this united diocese, we find ourselves facing the most serious economic and banking challenges that have been experienced for many decades.
Bishop Ken Good in his address to the Derry & Raphoe Synod this week said these are challenging times for employment and morally and he commented upon the recent bishops’ pastoral on same sex relationships.
Bishop Ken Good in his address to the Derry & Raphoe Synod this week said - In recent years, there has been a major shift in public perception of, and in media comment about, the institutional Church in Ireland, and few of us could have anticipated how large that shift would become in a short space of time.
A majority of dioceses have now backed the Church of England draft legislation on women bishops, which means that it will now return to the General Synod for debate and a final-approval vote next year.
The challenge of challenging Westminster after a week in which a government minister was virtually forced to resign. Click Blog above masthead.
Return after controversy, Clerical vacancies in Down & Dromore
Steven Jaffe, co-chair of Northern Ireland Friends of Israel comments on on the release of Gilad Shalit.