The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, gathered the diocesan family together, represented by some 3000 people, under the great dome of St Paul's Cathedral for a celebration on 22 May 2004
24 May 2004
A project funded by the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG) in Myanmar (Burma) is supplying clean water to nearly 120 families in two remote villages. The project is soon to be extended to other nearby villages to continue the work of combating disease spread by contaminated water.
19 May 2004
On 11 May, Jane Williams gave the Mary Sumner Lecture at the Mothers' Union in London. The address was to mark the International Year of the Family.
14 May 2004
Church Army's Chief Secretary, Philip Johanson OBE, has warned the church against waiting in vain for young people to return to the fold.
12 May 2004
Mary is a sign of God's peace to both the Church and the world - the Archbishop of York, the Most Revd Dr David Hope, said in his address at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham National Festival in York Minster today.
11 May 2004
The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, will be guest preacher in the UK's first 3D online church service next week. He will appear as a cartoon double in Church of Fools, conceived by web magazine shipoffools.com.
06 May 2004
It was announced from 10 Downing Street on 19 April that the Queen had approved the nomination of The Revd Canon Dr Jeffrey John as the next Dean of St Albans. Canon Jeffery John, who is also to be Rector of the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, is currently Chancellor and Canon Theologian of Southwark Cathedral.
22 April 2004
The Most Revd Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, gave the John Mere Commemoration Sermon at St Benet's Church in Cambridge last night.
21 April 2004
Mary's Magnificat! The image of Our Lady of Walsingham, usually to be found in the Holy House at the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is going, "on the road" nationwide, to visit a range of secular places including a prison, a shopping centre, a school, an airport and a hospital.
13 April 2004
A good few years ago, I heard a distinguished American scholar of ancient history commenting on the proclamation of the resurrection as it would have been heard in the classical world. 'If an educated Greek or Roman had been told that someone had been raised from the dead', he said, 'his first question would have been "How do you get him back into his grave again?"'
11 April 2004