Hattie Williams

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Episcopalians decline to resettle Afrikaners because of Trump policy

3 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

AN ARM of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Episcopal Migration Ministries, whose federal contract to settle refugees was curtailed by the Trump administration in January, has refused to resettle a small group of white South Africans whom the administration has since deemed to be refugees.
York Minster to mark 1400 years with Talent Awards

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

THE Dean and Chapter of York Minster have launched the Talent Awards, through which they will commission large-scale artworks to celebrate the 1400th anniversary of the building’s foundation for the baptism of King Edwin of Northumbria in 627. Two new or emerging artists will win a commission worth £10,000 and the opportunity to exhibit their work in the Minster for ten months, alongside a third, established artist.
American Cardinal Robert Prevost elected in Rome as Pope Leo XIV

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Ed Thornton |Hattie Williams

THE American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. He is the first pope from the United States. Pope Leo XIV, who is 69, was elected on the fourth ballot, on the second day of voting, by at least a two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinal electors gathered inside the Sistine Chapel for the conclave. More than 100 of the voting cardinals were appointed by Pope Francis during his 12-year papacy.
Thousands respond to public consultation on next Archbishop of Canterbury

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

MORE than 11,000 people have contributed to the public consultation on the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury, which ran from February to March (News, 7 February). Members of the public were invited to propose candidates and comment on what the Church needs from the next Primate of All England. The online consultation form on the Church of England website received more than 9600 responses.
Bishop of London repudiates ‘crude cost savings’ identified in assisted-dying Bill

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

THE Government’s impact assessments of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which returns to the House of Commons next week, make “chilling reading”, the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has said.
Hunger and hardship add £75 billion to Government’s bill, says Trussell

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

HUNGER and hardship in the UK are costing the Government £75 billion a year in additional public-services and other costs, new research from the Christian foodbank charity Trussell suggests. The charity sets out the figures in a report, Cost of Hunger and Hardship, published on Wednesday.
When does the conclave to elect the next pope begin, and what happens?

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

THE conclave to elect the next pope will begin on 7 May, the Vatican announced on Monday afternoon. The date was agreed at a meeting earlier that day of 180 of the Roman Catholic Church’s 252 cardinals, at the end of the Novendiales masses for the eternal repose of the late Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, aged 88. The cardinals, from more than 90 countries, began to gather in Rome last week in preparation for the papal funeral on Saturday.
Faith of the northern saints explored in short film on Lord’s Prayer

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

A CELEBRATION of the Lord’s Prayer is the subject of a new short film to be released on 6 May as part of the Archbishop of York’s Faith in the North initiative. Then as Now has been created by the filmmaker Oliver Murray, an ordinand at St Hild College in the diocese of York. Set in the landscape of the north-east, the eight-minute film interweaves the faith of northern saints from the seventh century — including St Cuthbert and St Hild — with the lives of Christians today.
Tens of thousands flock to Rome before papal funeral

3 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

TENS of thousands of pilgrims flocked to Rome this week, before the funeral of Pope Francis, who died, aged 88, early on Easter Monday. His remains have been transferred from the ground-floor chapel of the Casa Santa Marta to St Peter’s Basilica, to lie in state, so that the public may pay their respects, until his funeral on Saturday.
Guildford churches celebrate green initiatives to mark World Earth Day

3 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

ECO churches in the diocese of Guildford have been celebrated at a special event to mark World Earth Day, on Tuesday. The diocese has five Gold Eco Churches, awarded by the Christian environmental charity A Rocha UK — the highest among all Church of England dioceses. Two-thirds of all churches in Guildford diocese have signed up to the Eco Church scheme, 105 of which have received an award for their environmental work, either bronze, silver, or gold.