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Bangor creates cartoon guide for local schoolsTHE diocese of Bangor has released a Welsh-language resource to support pupils in exploring Christian pilgrimage, churches, and faith heritage through activities in their…
Dallas priest charged with theft and fraud fights Church’s efforts to remove him from ministry
A PRIEST in Dallas who has been arrested and charged by police over the theft of more than $300,000, fraud, and credit-card abuse is fighting the Episcopal Church’s efforts to remove him from ministry. The Revd Edward Monk…
Bishops speak of ‘tense calm’ in Venezuela
VENEZUELA remains in a state of “tense calm” after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro by Unite States troops, the Provisional Bishop of Venezuela diocese, the Rt Revd Cristóbal Olmedo León Lozano, has reported. Bishop…
‘Expose Russian war crimes’ Ukrainian church leader says
THE Primate of Ukraine’s independent Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphany (Dumenko), has urged Christians worldwide to speak out against Russian missile attacks on civilian targets across the country, after President Putin…
Bad theology will not fix climate crisis
THE agenda for next month’s meeting of the General Synod lists two items of Liturgical Business. The first is to adjust the calendar to enable the commemoration as martyrs of the 21 construction workers who were viciously…
Leader comment: Sudan’s hell
THE year may be only a fortnight old, but there has been no shortage of dramatic global news. The American intervention in Venezuela, the rising tide of protest and violence in Iran, speculation about the future of Greenland,…
United States is ‘not a fully fascist regime. . . yet’
JEFF SHARLET, the writer, journalist, and academic, has been chronicling the shift towards nationalism in conservative American Christianity since the 1990s. He is a New York Times bestselling author, and his eighth and most…
Susan Greenfield: Neuroscientist on a journey
IT WAS a Sunday afternoon when my phone rang. “I’m going to be baptised in the Anglican Church next month,” the voice said, “and I wondered if you could be my godfather.” It took a while before I could react: this was…
Who do you think you are?
“I’VE been trying to unravel the mysteries of my family.” So begins the story of Anthony Easton, as told in BBC Radio’s recent The History Podcast series “The House at Number 48”. The show follows Mr Easton as he goes on a…
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Portuguese DJ-priest mixes it up in BeirutA ROMAN Catholic priest, Fr Guilherme Peixoto, known as Padre Guilherme, from a village in north Portugal, has DJ-ed at a nightclub in Beirut, after a petition to prevent the event,…
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