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Stone carver and Franciscan Tertiary sets up community for women
A STONE carver and Franciscan Tertiary, the Revd Lindy Cameron, is realising her vision to set up a community for women, based at her rectory in Langton Matravers, in Dorset. A house-for-duty Pioneer priest, she served her…
Law Commission scrutinises chancel-repair liability
THE Law Commission published a consultation paper this week on reforming land-registration law with regard to chancel-repair liability (Synod, 1 March 2024).The legislation dates back to the dissolution of monasteries in the…
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UK news in brief
Safety first at Peterborough tombCATHERINE of Aragon’s tomb, in Peterborough Cathedral, has been roped off from visitors because of falling plasterwork caused by excessive temperatures during the recent heatwave. A cathedral…
Campaign group Evangelicals for America apologise for use of Billy Graham footage
THE political campaign group Evangelicals for America, in the United States, has apologised for its suggestive use of footage of the late evangelist Billy Graham in an advertisement critical of President Trump. Formerly known…
World news in brief
Sectarian violence in southern Syria THIRTY people have been killed as a result of the attack by Sunni tribes on Druze neighbourhoods and villages in the Suwayda province in Syria, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)…
Gen Z want to know where their money goes
SINCE finishing university recently, I find that my conversations with friends have been dominated by discussions about the future. Burdened by the current state of the economy and the jobs market, many of them regard the…
Communion boycotts: prophetic or churlish?
A RECTOR in the diocese of Virginia, in the United States, the Revd Dr Cayce Ramey, has been causing a stir. Four years ago, he began a eucharistic “fast”, refusing to participate in holy communion, in an effort to draw…
Like it or not, religion is in the room
SOMETIMES, it’s hard to know which boxer to back. Take this recent fight, for example. Do you put your support behind the Roman Catholic MP who tweets, in all seriousness, “My private religion will continue to have zero…
Anti-Jewish feeling is rife in UK today
A GOVERNMENT-BACKED report was published this week on the rise of anti-Semitism in British society. The authors were Lord Mann and Dame Penny Mordaunt, neither of whom is Jewish. They claimed, The Daily Telegraph reported,…
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