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Places of worship open up for interfaith tour – Tuesday 19th March

Revd Mark Dimond

Places of worship in one of the most culturally diverse parts of Wales are inviting visitors on an interfaith tour next week.

15 March 2013

Anglicans commissioned to write Titanic II prayer

Anglicans commissioned to write Titanic II prayer

The Mission to Seafarers global maritime welfare charity is pleased to announce that we have been commissioned to write and deliver a prayer of remembrance and to give a blessing to the future crew, passengers and engineers who will sail on the replica cruise ship Titanic II.

14 March 2013

"The Church universal needs Anglicans" - Pope Francis

"The Church universal needs Anglicans" - Pope Francis

The new Pope has reportedly said the Church universal needs Anglicans and that the Ordinariate is "quite unnecessary".

14 March 2013

Licensing Service Will Be A Messy Affair

Tracy prepares a messy event

The licensing service of the Revd Tracy Reynolds on Sunday (March 17) will be a somewhat different affair to many others.

14 March 2013

Former IT specialist is new vicar in Bargoed

A former IT specialist hopes to play a part in the regeneration of a Valleys’ community when he becomes its new vicar.

14 March 2013

New Secretary General for the Mission to Seafarers

New Secretary General for the Mission to Seafarers

The Revd Andrew Wright has taken up his new post as Secretary General of The Mission to Seafarers. Revd Wright has joined the Mission from Fishermen’s Mission, where he was chaplain and director of operations.

13 March 2013

Elder Fu Xianwei and the Revd Peter Koon to visit Dublin

Elder Fu Xianwei and the Revd Peter Koon to visit Dublin

On Saturday 16 March Elder Fu Xianwei, the Chairperson of National Committee of Three–Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China and the Revd Peter Koon, Provincial Secretary General of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (Anglican Province of Hong Kong), are to commence a four day visit to Dublin

13 March 2013

Pacific Conference of Churches resolutions welcomed by WCC

Pacific Conference of Churches resolutions welcomed by WCC

he 10th Assembly of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), meeting from 3 to 10 March in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, adopted a series of resolutions on public issues ranging from climate change and resettlement, through seabed mining and nuclear weaponry, to the self-determination of West Papua and Maohi Nui (or Tahiti).

13 March 2013

WCC in solidarity with Christians attacked in Pakistan

WCC in solidarity with Christians attacked in Pakistan

In a letter to Pakistani churches, the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has condemned the attacks on Christians in Badami Bagh, Lahore, on Saturday, 10 March. More than a hundred houses were burned down following allegations of blasphemy.

13 March 2013

Clergy sexual abuse raised as issue at UN meeting

Clergy sexual abuse raised as issue at UN meeting

At a time of widespread scandals over clergy sex abuse, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) have called for professional standards of clergy accountability at an international forum on violence against women.

13 March 2013