This month’s contents:
- Marriage Measure countdown – how it will affect your parish
- Special prayer for fair play – 2008 Olympics
- A Level results – RE success
- Lambeth Conference
Final news and reflections
Concluding presidential address and sermon
Address by Chief Rabbi
Walk of Witness – in support of the Millennium Development Goals
Responsibility for the environment – Dr Williams speaks out
Funding
- Lambeth Palace statement on recent press coverage
Marriage Measure countdown
Wider welcome for couples as Church of England names the day. The clock is ticking – find out how it will affect your parish here .
Special prayer for fair play
The Church of England has published a new prayer on its website at to mark the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
A Level results – RE success
This year’s A-level results mark the fifth year in a row that the number of students taking Religious Studies A-level has risen, with an increase of 5.9 per cent since 2007.
Lambeth Conference
Final news and reflections on the Conference (held at Canterbury July 16-August 3) here .
Concluding Presidential Address and Sermon to the Conference by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Chief Rabbi addresses conference; details here .
Walk of Witness – in support of the Millennium Development Goals
The Church’s Responsibility for the Environment; Dr Williams writes for The Guardian newspaper.
Funding: the Board of Governors of the Church Commissioners andthe Archbishops' Council of the Church of England have both met to discuss an approach from the Lambeth Conference Company for financial help. Full story here .
Archbishop of Canterbury’s statement on eight year old correspondence
In response to the press coverage of correspondence dating back to 2000, Dr Rowan Williams has made the following statement .
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Ends
The Diocese of Worcester is one of 44 dioceses in the Church of England. It covers an area of 671 square miles and includes parishes in the County of Worcestershire, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, and a few parishes in northern Gloucestershire, south east Wolverhampton and Sandwell.
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