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Aid cuts not worth the damage, say bishops
REDUCING Britain’s international-aid budget will be a false economy, the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Revd James Langstaff, said in the House of Lords last week. Speaking in a debate on the Government’s decision to cut overseas aid by £4 billion (N...

Jarel Robinson-Brown to serve title at Aldgate after review concludes
THE Revd Jarel Robinson-Brown is to serve his title at St Botolph without Aldgate, in London, after a review of the diocese of London’s response to his post on Twitter about Captain Sir Tom Moore was concluded (News, Leader comment, 12 February). ...

Archbishop of Wales: ‘It's not all doom and gloom’
THE Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd John Davies, retired on Sunday after three and a half years as Archbishop and 13 as Bishop of Swansea & Brecon. The coronavirus pandemic put paid to the Church’s planned centenary celebrations in 2020, an...

Music charity organises live concerts in churches
LIVE concerts in Gloucestershire and Norfolk churches are likely to be among the first to be held anywhere in the UK after lockdown restrictions are further eased on 17 May. The early-evening, hour-long concerts — two performances of the same prog...

Parliamentarians join forces in effort to retain ban on assisted dying
THE Christian Conservative MP Danny Kruger is co-ordinating opposition in Parliament to the “well-organised, well-funded” campaign to legalise assisted dying. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well, which Mr Kruger chairs, was launched l...

Sports-club chaplains join boycott
SCORES of chaplains with many of the country’s leading sports clubs joined last weekend’s mass social-media boycott to address online racist abuse. From Friday afternoon until midnight on Monday, members of Sports Chaplaincy UK halted their messag...