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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…
Church disability work awarded £5m
THE Church Commissioners have announced further details of the spending of £5 million on disability projects over the next three years, after disagreements last summer over the future of racial-justice funding in the Church…
Illegal children’s homes is ‘what failure looks like’ says Children’s Commissioner
NEW figures showing that hundreds of children live in unregistered children’s homes, usually owned by private companies that receive no formal inspection or scrutiny, are a call for people to “offer homes with care and…
Rector and diocese penalised for deliberately breaching faculty condition
THE Consistory Court of the diocese of Worcester has ordered that three petitioners, who had been granted a faculty permitting certain structural remedial work to be undertaken at St Mary’s, Doverdale, and the diocese itself…
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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,…
Churches stand ready to help refugees
IN THE 1950s, when Irish workers came to the UK, they often found hostile signs in guest houses and pubs: “No Blacks. No Irish. No Dogs.” Thankfully, those signs are gone, but the sentiment feels uncomfortably familiar.…
A sword still pierces the soul
IN THE story of Christ’s presentation in the Temple, Simeon’s words to Mary arrest the breath: “And a sword will pierce your own soul, too.” Simeon warns that faithfulness has a cost, and that love comes with pain.As the…
Analysis: Churches can prevent loneliness
WHEN, in 2023, the US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy, compared loneliness’s mortality risk to smoking 15 cigarettes daily, he articulated what parish priests have witnessed for generations: people are dying not only from…
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