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Festivals prove popular, despite the rain

NUMBERS held up at this year’s Greenbelt festival, staged over the Bank Holiday weekend, despite anxiety about the weather.

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Diary sheds new light on the Wesleys

THE JOURNAL of Charles Wesley has been transcribed by the Revd Professor Kenneth Newport, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Liverpool Hope University.

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Guide urges churches to cut floodlights

CHURCHES that are floodlit are being asked to consider reducing the number of nights they are illumi­nated, in the interests of tackling climate change...

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Lambeth exceeded expectations, Dr Williams reports

THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury has offered further personal reflec­tions on the Lambeth Conference, saying he believes that the ten-yearly meeting was successful...

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Mayhem in Orissa as Hindu extremists target Christians

A NUN was burned to death on Mon­day in a series of attacks by Hindu extremists on Christians in eastern India.

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Russia ‘threatens world order’ says Georgian

RUSSIA’S military intervention in Georgia “is a threat to the whole world order”, Archbishop Malkhaz Songulashvili of the Georgian Evangelical Baptist...

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Ingham property move

NEW WESTMINSTER diocese has taken steps to remove from parish property clergy who have left the Anglican Church of Canada.

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Philippines descends into civil conflict

EVENTS in the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines have worsened over the past week.

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Rome not Iker’s plan, after all

THE Bishop of Fort Worth has publicly stated that the four priests who approached the local Roman Catholic bishop with proposals for full communion with...

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Five-year plan for healing in Kenya

by Pat Ashworth

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Before Dr Rice returns, Gaza gets a fillip

TWO events have boosted Pales­tinian morale in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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News in brief

Dr Selby warns over prisons; Child poverty target threatened

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Popularity of RS exam grows

More school students than ever before — nearly half a million — took public examinations in religious studies (RS) this year.

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League-table success for CE schools

LEAGUE TABLES based on this month’s GCSE and A-level results showed Church of England schools performing well.

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Warnings over sham weddings

FOREIGNERS are using a loophole in the marriage laws as they apply for church weddings to gain the right of abode in the UK.

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Out of his niche

Stonemasons are hoping to restore a six-foot sand­stone figure of St Methodius.

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