St Mary’s Weekly News Christmas and New Year 2019/20

December 20, 2019 in Newsletters

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...
Byron quotation 'not Christian enough' for church graveyard
AN INSCRIPTION on a headstone in a churchyard has to be something more than an expression of loss: it must convey a message consistent with Christian belief, the Consistory Court of the diocese of Lichfield ruled when refusing a faculty for certai...