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Ukrainians take heart from previous support of Pope Leo XIV

1 day ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Andreja Bogdanovski

PREVIOUS comments by Pope Leo XIV have been widely hailed in Ukraine as a positive sign. In interview with the Peruvian newspaper Semanario Expresión, in 2022, Bishop Robert Prevost of Chicalayo, in Peru, as the new Pope was then, described the war in Ukraine as “a true imperialist invasion” in which Russia “seeks to conquer territory for reasons of power”. A video of the interview has been shared online in Ukraine over the past week following the papal announcement.
Six ‘serious-incident reports’ on Bangor Cathedral, Church in Wales confirms

2 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

A SIXTH serious-incident report has been sent to the Charity Commission relating to Bangor Cathedral, a statement on the Church in Wales website said on Tuesday. The “supplementary statement” published on Tuesday follows publication of summaries of the Visitation and safeguarding audit at the cathedral, last Saturday (News, 9 May). It says that the Chapter met on Monday and discussed “financial record keeping and procedures.
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.
Future of listed churches’ grant scheme to be decided in June

3 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

THE Minister for Local Government, Jim McMahon, has declined to give any assurance that the Listed Places of Worship Grant (LPWG) Scheme will be made permanent, or that projects already under way will be exempt from the new cap. In a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday, Mr McMahon said that the limits placed on the scheme were “due to the difficult fiscal circumstances that this Government inherited”.
Pope Leo XIV defends ‘gift of free speech’ in first press conference

4 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore

THE new Pope has declared his Church’s solidarity with journalists who suffer for reporting the truth, while urging the world’s media to help to counter “paradigms of war” across the world. “The suffering of imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech,” Pope Leo XIV said on Monday.
Bananas could be lost to climate change, Christian Aid finds

4 days 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).
St Paul’s recalls Blitz spirit in 80th anniversary commemorations

6 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Amelia Braddick

TO COMMEMORATE the 80th anniversary of VE — Victory in Europe — Day, St Paul’s Cathedral held a special evensong on Thursday. The service featured readings, music, and prayers, honouring those who served, fought, and died in the armed services, as well as remembering Londoners who lost their lives during the Blitz, and throughout the war. After the service, there was a blessing of the “Lamp Light of Peace” on the west steps by the late Queen Elizabeth’s pageant master, Bruno Peek.
Church and world leaders pledge co-operation with Pope Leo XIV

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore

WORLD leaders have reacted to Thursday’s election of the Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV (News, 9 May), as more details emerged of his background and likely approach as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Russians are ‘successors of true Christianity’, says Putin after 25 years as President

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Andreja Bogdanovski

IN A documentary video shown on Russian state TV (Rossiya-1), marking 25 years of his leadership, President Putin has stated that Moscow is the “Third Rome”. “In Rome, Christianity was reformed, but not in Byzantium. . . And we came to believe that we are the successors of true Christianity. Moscow is the Third Rome, and there will be no Fourth. So we are the true Christians,” Mr Putin said in the documentary Russia. The Kremlin. Putin. 25 Years, made by Saida Medvedeva and Pavel Zarubin.
Bishop Rob Saner-Haigh of Penrith to be translated to Carlisle

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

THE Rt Revd Rob Saner-Haigh, Suffragan Bishop of Penrith, in the diocese of Carlisle, since 2022, is to be its next diocesan Bishop, Downing Street announced on Friday. Bishop Saner-Haigh, who is 52, has been the Acting Bishop of Carlisle since September 2023, after the see became vacant on the retirement of the Rt Revd James Newcome (News, 14 July 2023).