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Church Commissioners invest £4 million in community housing fund
1 day ago · THE Church Commissioners have invested £4 million in a community housing fund that is aimed at building 1000 homes, of which 90 per cent will be “affordable”.. The money has been allocated by the Church of England’s Social Impact Investment Programme, which was set up in 2020, within the Archbishops’ Council, to “direct capital towards new solutions to deep-rooted social challenges ...
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4 days ago · Archbishop of York acknowledges scale of task to restore trust in the Church, post Makin. THE question whether clergy should become employees could be asked this year, the Archbishop of York has said, on his first day holding the …
Church is facing ‘existential crisis’ over safeguarding, says Bishop …
Dec 10, 2024 · THE Church of England is facing “one of the biggest existential crises . . . since the Reformation”, in the wake of the Makin Review into abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Jonathan Gibbs, said on Tuesday.. Speaking after voting in favour of a diocesan synod motion that expressed no confidence in the Archbishops’ Council’s oversight of safeguarding (News, 10 ...
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Bishop of Warrington ‘away from diocese’ THE Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, in the diocese of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Beverley Mason, is currently “away from the diocese”, clergy were informed at last week’s chrism eucharist.A statement was read out, which said that “with the permission of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of …
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Archbishop Welby spends final day at Lambeth Palace in private. THE Archbishop of Canterbury, whose official duties end at midnight, is to spend his last day in office, privately, at Lambeth Palace, a spokesperson confirmed
If a church closes, one fifth of the congregation won’t look for ...
Aug 21, 2024 · CHURCH closures can lead to a fall in overall church attendance, because worshippers are unwilling or unable to attend a different church, a new poll suggests.. The poll was commissioned by the National Churches Trust to draw attention to an increased rate of church closures in the UK. More than 3500 churches …
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
Aug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
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Jun 16, 2017 · Lord Harries’s British-values Bill progresses unamended. A BILL to extend the “British values” taught in schools to freedom of religion and respect for the environment, proposed by the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries, will now move to its Third Reading in the House of Lords, after no amendments were tabled.In the introduction to the Second Reading of his Education (Values of British ...
‘In church-going terms, we have failed’ - The Church Times
Nov 8, 2024 · The findings also provide evidence about the context in which people tasked with hitting targets are being placed. Those working towards the goal of doubling the number of children and young people in the Church might, for example, be interested in the evaluation of the diocese of Hereford’s project for inter-generational ministers project. In six of the seven placements of inter ...