Back to Church Sunday goes global
01 May 2008
People in churches all over Britain, and for the first time, in other parts of the world, will be backing Back to Church Sunday this September 28th and inviting a friend back to church with them.
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New Director of Cathedrals and Church Buildings appointed
28 April 2008
The Archbishops’ Council has appointed Janet Gough as Director of Cathedrals and Church Buildings. She will take up the post in September.
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New Chief Surveyor for Church Commissioners
28 April 2008
The Church Commissioners today announce the appointment of Joseph Cannon MRICS as their new Chief Surveyor. Joseph will head the Commissioners’ Property Investment Department, responsible for the management of a portfolio of agricultural, commercial and residential investment properties valued at nearly £1.7 billion at 31 December 2007.
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Women in the Episcopate – Manchester Report published
28 April 2008
The House of Bishops is to discuss the report of the Legislative Drafting Group considering proposals to allow for women bishops at its next meeting in May. The report of the group, chaired by the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester, has been published today and will be debated by General Synod in July.
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Archbishop - Protect the Poorest from the Effects of Economic Downturn
25 April 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has today called on the government to do more to protect the poorest and most vulnerable from the likely consequences of an economic downturn. Speaking in the House of Lords, the Archbishop highlighted the fact that government targets on alleviating poverty, particularly child poverty, risked not being met and warned that in a period of economic decline the poorest in society, who carry a higher proportion of personal debt, were most at risk. In the debate, called by the Archbishop, he suggested ways in which government might help low income families avoid entering into cycles of unsustainable debt - by improving financial education in schools, enforcing tighter controls on doorstep credit agencies and by helping to foster responsible alternatives to doorstep lending, such as those offered by Credit Unions.
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Archbishops issue joint statement on Zimbabwe
24 April 2008
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a joint statement this morning concerning the deteriorating situation of ordinary people in Zimbabwe calling for “a civil society movement that gives voice to those who demand an end to the mayhem that grows out of injustice, poverty, exclusion and violence”.
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Double honour for co-ordinator of Church’s Unity work
24 April 2008
Prebendary Dr Paul Avis has been appointed as a chaplain to Her Majesty The Queen and the first Canon Theologian of Exeter.
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Resource launched to help churches support survivors of abuse
15 April 2008
The Church of England and the Methodist Church are publishing a special resource this week designed to help churches support people who have suffered from the trauma of abuse, wherever this has occurred.
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Celebrations as Festivals mark Common Worship’s full house
11 April 2008
Common Worship: Festivals has been published, the concluding volume of the largest liturgical publishing project ever carried out in this country.
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Women in the Episcopate? An Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue
10 April 2008
The House of Bishops’ Theological Group and the Faith and Order Advisory Group have produced a set of reflections on the address given in 2006 by Cardinal Walter Kasper to the Bishops of the Church of England on the proposal to ordain women as bishops.
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