This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week and at Pickwell Manor in North Devon a group of students on the CMS Pioneer Mission Leadership Training Course will learn how to apply models of social enterprise to ideas which seek to enhance the lives of individuals and communities.
20 November 2012
A new web resource to encourage the Church's pastoral ministry in the area of mental health,Mental Health Matters, was launched today at a fringe meeting during this week’s sessions of the General Synod at Church House, Westminster.
20 November 2012
Rt Rev Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham and Archbishop-designate of Canterbury, spoke in favour of the legislation to enable women to be bishops at the General Synod today, as many spoke alternately in favour and against.
20 November 2012
A change in the law on assisted dying would ‘permit people actively to participate in bringing about the deaths of other individuals, something that, apart from cases of self defence, has not formed part of the legal landscape of the United Kingdom since the abolition of capital punishment’, the Church of England Mission and Public Affairs Council has told politicians.
19 November 2012
The role of Readers in the Church of England was celebrated at a special service in York Minster on Saturday 17th November. The Archbishop of York licensed four people as new Readers in the Diocese of York, and sixty eight people were thanked for their long service as Readers.
18 November 2012
Hundreds of York St John University students will be celebrating their graduation alongside some inspirational honorary graduates in York Minster between 14 and 16 November 2012.
16 November 2012
A north London priest who was called to a fatal accident outside her church is urging people to light a candle and say a prayer this Sunday (18 November), the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims, supported by the UN.
13 November 2012
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu together with Julia Unwin CBE Chief Executive of Joseph Rowntree Foundation /Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust today launched the UK Living Wage.
05 November 2012
In a video message about the legislation for women bishops, the Bishop of Willesden, the Rt Revd Pete Broadbent, urges those thinking of voting against the legislation to think again as ‘there is now in the Measure sufficient provision for those who are against, and there’s a real sense in which what we are doing is affirming women on equal terms with men’.
25 October 2012
In a video message for the Archbishop’s campaign to support the current legislation for women bishops, Rebecca Swinson - the youngest-ever member of Archbishops’ Council – outlines why she wants to see the legislation for women bishops passed at this November’s Synod.
25 October 2012