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Rebecca Paveley

United Kingdom

Writer at Church Times

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  • 3 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Rebecca Paveley

    THE United States Supreme Court has reached a deadlock in a case in which state funding was sought for the first religious-charter school. The Justices were split 4:4 on a decision. The deadlock means that St Isidore’s Roman Catholic School, Oklahoma City, will now not be able to open with public funds.

  • 1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Rebecca Paveley

    A CHURCH in the heart of Dayton, Ohio, where NATO’s spring Parliamentary Assembly took place from 22-26 May, was open 12 hours a day to offer prayers for peace, as delegates marked the 30th anniversary of the end of the Bosnian War. The town was chosen to host the assembly, as the Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the three-year war and established the independent state of Bosnia Herzegovina, were signed at Dayton’s US Air Force base in 1995.

  • 1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Rebecca Paveley

    PROPOSED legislation to introduce major cuts in both tax and spending in the United States have been criticised by the Episcopal Church (TEC) for its potential impact on “those at the margins of society”. The new plans, described by President Trump as a “big, beautiful Bill”, seek to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

  • 1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Rebecca Paveley

    AN ombudsman is to be appointed to hear allegations raised during the appointment process of the next Bishop of Montreal, the diocese has announced. The Ven. Dr Victor-David Mbuyi Bipungu, a Congolese Canadian and former Roman Catholic, was elected this month as Bishop Coadjutor, but the election was fraught with allegations of misconduct (News, 9 May).

  • 1 month ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Rebecca Paveley

    ALMOST half of the world’s banana-growing regions could be lost to climate change in the next five decades, a new report has warned. Bananas are the world’s most popular fruit — and the fourth most important food crop globally — but rising temperatures, droughts, and fungal infections are threatening the areas where most of the world’s crops grow, in Latin America and the Caribbean (News, 10 March 2023).

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