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On Fallujah, Bishops of Coventry and Bath & Wells

On Fallujah, Bishops of Coventry and Bath & Wells

Joint Statement from The Bishop of Coventry and The Bishop of Bath and Wells. We write as two Anglican Bishops who visited Iraq in 1999 and who witnessed the terrible suffering of the Iraqi people under the double insult of Saddams brutal dictatorship and the UN sanctions regime. 

17 November 2004

Murdered hostage remembered in Cathedral service

Murdered hostage remembered in Cathedral service

Liverpool Cathedral in England held a memorial service on Saturday 13 November for the murdered British hostage, Kenneth Bigley, who was kidnapped in mid-September by a group in Iraq calling for the release of prisoners. He was killed some three weeks later.

15 November 2004

From the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem

From the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem

The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem offer their sincere condolences to all concerned on the death of President Yasser Arafat.

12 November 2004

Church of England warns on human genetics

Church of England warns on human genetics

The Church of England has warned that human genetics should be developed for the purpose of therapy only, and not for the enhancement of the foetus, in a submission by the Church's Mission and Public Affairs Council to the consultation Choosing the Future, run by the Human Genetics Commission.

11 November 2004

Archbishop of Wales pays tribute to Yasser Arafat

Archbishop of Wales pays tribute to Yasser Arafat

The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, today paid tribute to Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat following his death earlier this morning.

11 November 2004

Bishop in Jerusalem on the arrest of Mordechai Vanunu from St George's Cathedral Close this morning

Bishop in Jerusalem on the arrest of Mordechai Vanunu from St George's Cathedral Close this morning

It is with tremendous grief and sadness that I inform you that the Israeli special police force entered St George's Cathedral Close today without permission and took Mordechai Vanunu into custody

11 November 2004

Visit of Bishop of West Virginia to Ireland

Visit of Bishop of West Virginia to Ireland

The Right Revd Mike Klusmeyer, the Bishop of West Virginia the link diocese of Tuam Killala and Achonry will be visiting the Church of Ireland diocese commencing 6 November.

05 November 2004

Women Bishops in the Church of England?

Women Bishops in the Church of England?

Women Bishops in the Church of England?, the report of the House of Bishops' Working Party on Women in the Episcopate, chaired by the Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, was published yesterday

02 November 2004

Archbishop commissions new USPG General Secretary

Archbishop commissions new USPG General Secretary

Any mission agency's role is to represent the community of God with a human face. USPG's mission is to show the human face of God to our world, that struggles with poverty and injustice,' said the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, at a commissioning service in London on Monday to commission the Rt Revd Michael Doe as the new General Secretary of the Anglican mission agency USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel).

02 November 2004

Short-listed candidates for Bishop of St Andrews

Short-listed candidates for Bishop of St Andrews

Four candidates have been short-listed for the post of Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane (one of seven Dioceses within the Scottish Episcopal Church) which became vacant in July when Bishop Michael Henley retired after 9 years' service.

02 November 2004