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Bishops join critics of their own civil-partnerships statement
THE Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, has led a group of bishops who have reacted against the release of last week’s pastoral statement on civil partnerships. Bishop Treweek confessed that she had made “wrong assumptions” at last m...
Absent children will be a focus at next month’s General Synod
THE Church of England’s struggle to reach children and people living in the country’s most deprived areas will be among the topics discussed by the General Synod in Westminster next month. Background papers published in advance of the sessions — w...
UK news in brief
Bishop Pearson translated to Glasgow & Galloway THE Rt Revd Kevin Pearson, Argyll & The Isles since 2011, is to be the next Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway, vacant since 2018. It is the first translation of a bishop in the Scottish Episco...
Faith leaders call for unity, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz
THE 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz should be used “to come before God in worship, conscious of our need for forgiveness, but committed to action that would seek the common flourishing of all”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said...

Newsletter 5 Jan 2020