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1 week ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
VALUING the small and traditional alongside the large and pioneering was a recurrent theme as the Governing Body (GB) of the Church in Wales met in Llandudno last week. “We celebrate the big stories but also the small ones from those small communities who work away at it all, Sunday after Sunday,” the chair of the Representative Body (RB), Professor Medwin Hughes, said. “But it’s about the people of God sitting together, sharing opportunities that others will come and walk with us. . .
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
SCHOOL students challenged MPs last week to see poverty through their eyes and understand its effect on life at school, home, and in the community. Every young person should have an equal opportunity to do well and not just to survive, they told them.
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2 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
THE Church in Wales has a significant part to play in the life of the nation, and must adapt and develop “ever more courageously” as it responds to new challenges, its Archbishop, the Most Revd Andrew John, told the Governing Body meeting in a presidential address in Llandudno, on Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
CHILD poverty will be higher at the end of this Parliament than when the Government took office if it chooses not to scrap the two-child limit and benefit cap in its Child Poverty Strategy, charities have warned.
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3 weeks ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
BIBLES have been restored to bedside lockers at Macclesfield General Hospital, in Cheshire: something not seen since before the pandemic, when fears of cross-infection led to their removal from hospitals throughout the UK. They are being provided by the organisation Good News for Everyone, formerly the Gideons.
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1 month ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
A STATEMENT from the Church in Wales has described as “helpful” the Welsh Government’s response last week to recommendations made at the November 2024 summit on improving river health and water quality in Wales.
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1 month ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
A BILL giving the Government emergency powers to take operational control of the Chinese-owned steelmaking plant at Scunthorpe moved from approval to Royal Assent in just six-and-a half hours on Saturday, after debates in both Houses of Parliament heard concerns about short- and long-term effects of its closure. In a statement on Saturday, the Prime Minister said: “Today, my government has stepped in to save British Steel.
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1 month ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
CHURCHES are much more than buildings, and the Listed Places of Worship Grant (LPWG) Scheme is “beyond vital” to ensure that they can continue to be at the heart of communities, the Christian Funders’ Forum (CFF) has warned the Government. These buildings are also often of significant architectural value, the CFF, a group of 50 grant-making charities say. They award grants totalling £70 million a year.
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1 month ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
MOSAICS in Lourdes by the Slovenian artist and former Jesuit Fr Marko Rupnik are to be covered up before the pilgrimage season gets under way. Twenty women’s allegations that he sexually, psychologically, and spiritually abused them remain untried in any ecclesiastical court. The first claims against the artist, whose work is prominently featured in shrines, basilicas, and sanctuaries around the world, including the Vatican, were made by a former nun, Gloria Branciani, in 1993.
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1 month ago | 
churchtimes.co.uk | Pat Ashworth
HELP is at hand for churches wanting to set up, strengthen, or rebuild a junior choir. The new Young Voices Toolkit, from the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), is a step-by-step guide to involving children and young people in leading music in worship: a means of engagement, it believes, to which they readily respond. “Do we have to turn off our personal music devices?”“Music has that unique power,” the director of the RSCM, Hugh Morris, said.
