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Bishop of London tells peers C of E needs safeguarding ‘reset’
1 天前 · THE “reset” of safeguarding in the Church of England must have mandatory reporting at its heart, the Bishop of London told the House of Lords last Friday.. She was speaking during a debate on a Private Member’s Bill, Regulated and Other Activities (Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse) Bill, which would impose a duty, subject to criminal sanction, for the providers of regulated and ...
Would employed clergy make the Church Safer?
1 天前 · THE Archbishop of York has said that it might be time “possibly [to] ask the question whether clergy should become employees” (News 10 January).Last month, the Bishop of Birkenhead, the Rt Revd Julie Conalty, who is the deputy lead bishop for safeguarding, told the Sky News programme The UK Tonight that she “can see …
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2025年1月17日 · Canterbury CNC members to be named in March. THE membership of the Crown Nominations Commission that will choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury is expected to be known by mid-March, before its first meeting in May, the Archbishops’ Secretary for Appointments, Stephen Knott, has said
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2025年1月13日 · Concerns over content lead dioceses to leave X/Twitter. DIOCESES are leaving the social-media site X (formerly Twitter), referring to concerns about the direction of the platform, which was acquired by the South African businessman Elon Musk in 2022
How are churches addressing the cost of living crisis? - The Church …
2025年1月17日 · THE sobering effect of visiting a food and clothing bank operating from a damp basement on one of the city’s most deprived housing estates prompted the Archdeacon of Sheffield, the Ven. Malcolm Chamberlain, to raise the issue nationally.. He told the General Synod in July: “We can and we must do better as a nation.
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
2024年8月13日 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
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2017年6月16日 · Lord Harries’s British-values Bill progresses unamended. A BILL to extend the “British values” taught in schools to freedom of religion and respect for the environment, proposed by the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries, will now move to its Third Reading in the House of Lords, after no amendments were tabled.In the introduction to the Second Reading of his Education (Values of British ...
‘In church-going terms, we have failed’ - The Church Times
2024年11月8日 · The findings also provide evidence about the context in which people tasked with hitting targets are being placed. Those working towards the goal of doubling the number of children and young people in the Church might, for example, be interested in the evaluation of the diocese of Hereford’s project for inter-generational ministers project. In six of the seven placements of inter ...
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2024年8月30日 · Rededication of stone carving. AN ANCIENT stone carving believed by some historians to be the earliest-known sculpture of St Thomas Becket has been restored to the chancel of St Lawrence’s, Godmersham, in Kent — a church on the ancient pilgrim route between Winchester and Canterbury — and rededicated (News, 31 May).The service last weekend was attended by both Anglican and Roman Catholic ...