Canon Martin Shaw was elected as the new Bishop of Argyll and The Isles in the Scottish Episcopal Church at a meeting of the Electoral Synod on March 24 in Oban. He will succeed the Rt Revd Douglas Cameron who retired at the end of October last year.
29 March 2004
The national director for Church Army USA is on a fact-finding tour of projects run by Church Army in the UK. Steve Brightwell said in a press release that so far he had been "bowled over" and "inspired and encouraged" by the range and quality of work throughout the UK and Ireland.
29 March 2004
Jane Williams' continues her Lent course with "God Problems: Is God our Security."
29 March 2004
The Soul of Europe, an Anglican organisation aimed at assisting the integration of Islam into Europe, met with the World Islamic Call Society last week at St George's House Windsor on ways to develop joint-peace making activities.
29 March 2004
To mark the publication a press release issued today stated that the Rt Revd Harold Miller, Bishop of Down and Dromore and chairman of the church's Liturgical Advisory Committee had said, "This is a very fine production by Columba Press and in my view the most beautiful Prayer Book we have ever seen in the Church of Ireland.
24 March 2004
The Church in Wales' electoral college, which met last week in St Deiniol's Cathedral, Bangor, ended its three-days of meetings without an election for a new Bishop for the See of Bangor as no nominee had secured enough votes.
24 March 2004
The Archbishop of Canterbury and author Philip Pullman last week debated religion and belief at the National Theatre in London.
22 March 2004
Jane Williams continues her reflections for Lent with the fifth in the "God Problems" series, "Are Christians obsessed with sex?"
22 March 2004
Bishop Riah High School has launched a campaign for a project that will benefit the community throughout the city of Nazareth. The school has started a library and is appealing for book donations to increase the shelf stock from 3,000 to 40-50,000 books.
22 March 2004
The Church of England, and other UK faith groups represented by the Churches Main Committee, last week welcomed the UK Government budget announcement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme will be expanded to allowed a full Value Added Tax (VAT) refund of 17.5% on all eligible applications for work carried out on listed (protected) church buildings from 1st April 2004 forward.
22 March 2004