Church of England welcomes results of government's consultation on anti-terror legislation Reports that the Home Office has dropped plans to close places of worship linked to 'extremism' following a consultation exercise have been welcomed by the Church of England.
20 December 2005
The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, the Most Revd Dr Robin Eames, has today (Sunday 18 December) met officers and soldiers from every county in Northern Ireland and also from the Republic of Ireland, as part of his three-day pastoral visit to the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment currently serving in Iraq.
20 December 2005
Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, is this Christmas encircled by towering walls and militarized fences, turning the 4,000 year old city into a virtual prison for its 160,000 citizens. Bethlehem will soon have only three gates to the outside world, all controlled by the Israeli army.
15 December 2005
Macartan, patron saint of Clogher, is our invitation this Christmas to celebrate our common inheritance and to look to the future together.
15 December 2005
Following the explosion at the Buncefield Oil Depot at Hemel Hemsptead, the Bishop of St Albans said, "My prayers and thoughts are with the injured and with the emergency services who are continuing to fight the fire and support the many hundreds of people whose lives have been affected by this explosion.
15 December 2005
The Installation of a new Archbishop begins a new chapter in the life of the province and diocese as its chief pastor and teacher is welcomed by his people, placed in his archiepiscopal seat (cathedra, which gives a cathedral its name), and begins his ministry of teaching and celebrating the Good News of God in Jesus Christ.
30 November 2005
The Spirit you have received is not a spirit of slavery, leading you back into a life of fear, but a Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry 'Abba! Father!' (Romans 8.15)
17 November 2005
Speech given by Her Majesty The Queen at the opening ceremony of the eighth General Synod.
17 November 2005
I was saddened to read in The Guardian newspaper of 17th November a front page article headed 'Archbishops threaten split over gay clergy'. The article noted that a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury was posted on conservative evangelical websites and was being read around the world before he had had an opportunity to read it himself
17 November 2005
To begin by asking this audience, 'Why are you here?' may sound just a bit negative (shades of the wartime challenge, 'Was your journey really necessary?'). But it's meant as a serious and an open question.
17 November 2005