The 250th anniversary of the translation of the Book of Common Prayer into Manx Gaelic has been marked by a set of specially commissioned gold-inked Christmas stamps by the island’s Post Office.
06 November 2015
The refugee crisis in Europe is the “largest crisis that Europe has had to face since World War II,” the Church of England’s suffragan Bishop of Europe, the Rt Revd David Hamid, told ACNS this week. And the bishop warned that churches, governments and agencies need to prepare for a “medium- to long-term situation” that is “not going to go away quickly.”
05 November 2015
A group of four teachers from the Solomon Islands have made a four-week training visit to the UK as part of a twinning project between schools in the Church of England’s Diocese of Exeter and schools run by the Anglican Church of Melanesia.
05 November 2015
An agreed statement between Anglican and Orthodox Churches on the theology of the human person was presented to the leaders of both families of churches at Westminster Abbey, London, last night.
04 November 2015
The refugee crisis and the environment were amongst issues discussed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, today during the extended visit by the leader of the Orthodox family of churches to Lambeth Palace.
03 November 2015
A plea by an English vicar for permission to DNA-test a skull in a Worcestershire church to see if it belonged to the playwright William Shakespeare has been rejected by a Church of England judge who ruled that “no factual base whatsoever” had been put forward to “justify exhumation, removal or investigation.”
03 November 2015
The suffragan bishop in Europe, the Rt Revd Dr David Hamid, has joined other bishops and church leaders from a number of denominations in calling for safe passage to those seeking refuge.
30 October 2015
The Archbishop of Canterbury will host His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during his visit to London next week. It will be the second meeting between the two leaders, who first met in Istanbul last year, and in June this year made a joint call for action on climate change.
29 October 2015
An independent report on the first five years of the CMS Pioneer Mission Leadership Training course has revealed a big success story.
28 October 2015
Singing helps people to form new friendships and relationships faster than other forms of social engagement; according to research from Oxford University’s department for experimental psychology, which suggests that religious groups benefit from corporate singing during services.
28 October 2015