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5 days ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
THE next Suffragan Bishop of Crediton, in the diocese of Exeter, is to be the Archdeacon of Reigate, the Ven. Moira Astin, Downing Street announced on Tuesday. Before taking up her current post in the diocese of Southwark, Archdeacon Astin was Priest-in-Charge of St Lawrence’s, Frodingham, in the Lincoln diocese, from 2011 until 2016.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
THE Bishop of Chester, the Rt Revd Mark Tanner, has intervened in a rural parish dispute after flyers were distributed around Chester Cathedral on Easter Day. The Whitchurch Herald reported last week that flyers listing complaints against the Rector of St Oswald’s, Malpas, the Revd Dr Janine Arnott, had been glued to the cathedral.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
FRIENDSHIP between the Church of England and the Armenian Church has a long history, the Archbishop of York said on Tuesday, but it amounts to a “mere moment” in comparison with the almost 2000-year-old history of Christianity in Armenia. Archbishop Cottrell was speaking at the two-day Armenian Heritage Conference in Bern, which ended on Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
A CHURCH in a deprived parish on the Norfolk coast is in receipt of unexpected bounty from a stricken oil tanker, after a “cubic metre of meat and fish” was donated for use at its community meals.
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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
THE names of the final three members of Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) for the next Archbishop of Canterbury were named on Tuesday, after a contentious local selection process. A commercial lawyer, David Berry, a former county councillor, Sally-Ann Marks, and the Area Dean of Eastbridge, Canon Estella Last, have been elected from the diocese of Canterbury’s vacancy-in-see committee.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
THE House of Bishops at their residential meeting this week discussed the part played by women in the Church of England, and agreed that each diocese should have at least one adviser on women’s ministry. They discussed commissioning a “significant piece of work to assess ongoing disparities and discrimination based on gender in the Church of England”, a press release issued on Thursday said.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
THE war in Gaza is “no longer a defensive war, but a war of aggression”, and a “grave sin that violently assaults God-given human dignity”, the House of Bishops said in a statement on Thursday morning. The Hamas terrorist attacks on 7 October 2023 were “heinous” and Israel has a “right to self-defence in line with international law. . . Yet, the Government of Israel has shown through its statements and actions that this is no longer a defensive war, but a war of aggression,” the Bishops say.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
THE terms of reference of the group overseeing the implementation of the Makin recommendations were published yesterday. Keith Makin made 27 specific recommendations in his report, published last November (News, 15 November 2024), on the abuse by John Smyth. Action has already been taken in response to the report, including the initiation of disciplinary measures against some of the people criticised by Mr Makin for their handling of disclosures (News, 28 February).
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
IN THE beginning, the words were spoken in Jerusalem only. By the end, a chorus of voices filled the Temple Church in London, as, one by one, the congregation joined in saying a prayer for Christians in the Holy Land. The Archbishop in Jerusalem’s chaplain, Canon Donald Binder, led the prayer from the Roman Catholic Co-Cathedral in Jerusalem, joined by video link to London for a service organised by the charity Friends of the Holy Land.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin
A BILL to legalise assisted dying in the UK will not receive its next vote in the House of Commons until 13 June, after a parliamentary session on Friday ran out of time to debate the amendments that had been tabled. The Labour MP Kim Leadbeater brought forward the proposed legislation through a Private Member’s Bill (PMB).
