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Bishops reject intolerance as ‘Unite the Kingdom’ marchers descend on London
BISHOPS in London spoke out against “intolerance and division” before the “Unite the Kingdom” march that took place in the city on Saturday.The march, organised by the far-Right activist Tommy Robinson, was billed as a “free…
Lords Spiritual gather behind opposition to assisted-dying Bill
BISHOPS decried the proposed legalisation of assisted dying on Friday, as the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill came to the House of Lords for the first of two days of debate.“If passed, this Bill will signal that we…
Salisbury diocese’s £5.1m bid to ‘work better’ in rural areas
A RURAL benefice of 14 churches designated as a “mission hub” in the diocese of Salisbury as part of a new multi-million-pound programme is not expecting to “massively grow” its Sunday congregations, one of its leaders said…
Bodmin finds its way to mission without targets
IT WAS, the Revd Paul Holley admits, slightly perverse to be drawn to the diocese of Truro when its then diocesan Bishop predicted that the Church had “only five or six years” to turn around its decline. “I thought, ‘That…
Spurgeon’s College library among lots being sold after theological college’s closure
THE 60,000-volume library of Spurgeon’s College is among the lots being sold by administrators, after the 169-year-old Baptist theological college in south London suddenly closed last month (News, 8 August). A “sales teaser”…
More historic churches in jeopardy, National Churches Trust reports
THE number of churches, chapels, and meeting houses on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register has risen from 904 to 959, the National Churches Trust’s (NCT’s) 2024-25 Annual Review suggests. The charity’s chief…
New study to research how faith helps Nigerians to navigate racial discrimination
THE ways in which the faith of Nigerians in the UK helps them to navigate education, work, and racial discrimination are the subject of new research.Dr Bisi Adenekan-Koevoets, the British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher in…
Humanities hit by university’s retrenchment
DESPAIR has descended on Liverpool Hope University, where a projected cull of 39 members of the academic staff — about one tenth of the total — has included four of the six who taught theology and religious studies (TRS).All…
Theology viewed as ‘oddball’ degree
LIVERPOOL HOPE is only the latest university where a theology and religious-studies department has been significantly reduced in size and capacity or closed altogether, Dr Mathew Guest, Professor in the Sociology of Religion…
Faculty granted for boy’s exhumation from consecrated ground, despite father’s objections
THE mother of an eight-year-old boy who died of a rare form of leukaemia has been given permission to exhume his body from consecrated ground, despite objections from his father. The faculty was granted by the Consistory…
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