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
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams gave a lecture at the residence of the British Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, on 8 March 2004. His subject was "Belief, Unbelief and Religious Education."
11 March 2004
The Myth of the Celtic Church will be the subject of a four-day Conference held in Durham in the autumn.
09 March 2004
The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, soon to be invested as IX Bishop of New Hampshire, has announced that he has withdrawn from the March 11th debate at the Oxford Union, in Oxford England.
01 March 2004
The official Olympic Organising Committee in Greece (ATHOC) has asked the Church of England's Greater Athens Chaplaincy, along with the small Greek Evangelical Church, to be responsible for recruiting, selecting, accrediting, accommodating and supervising a team of 40 Anglican and Protestant chaplains for this year's Olympic games.
01 March 2004
The Most Revd Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of South Africa and visiting professor in Post-Conflict Studies at King's College London, preached at the college on Sunday 22 February and shared a spiritual message that had guided him through troubled times.
01 March 2004
The Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated his first anniversary today and spoke of the pressures of his job and the pain of the furore over the nomination of a gay bishop.
27 February 2004
The independent weekly, the Church Times, has published a Lent series by Jane Williams for 2004. The new series of study and reflection guides are designed for individual and group use during Lent. The series, called “God Problems”, deals with "obstacles Christians face in deepening their faith and commitment".
20 February 2004
With an overwhelming majority the Church of England’s General Synod yesterday voted to endorse a discussion document issued by the House of Bishops as a guide to the debate started by its 1991 report ‘Some Issues in Human Sexuality.’
12 February 2004
Clergy training in the Church of England must give higher priority to understanding Islam, a consultation by the 11 member-agencies of the Anglican Partnership for World Mission (PWM) has concluded.
11 February 2004