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Archive for September, 2009

Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Consultation: Algarve, Portugal

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), News | Comments Off

November   17th – 19th 2009 Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Consultation: Algarve Portugal At the Jerusalem GAFCON Conference in June 2008, representatives of 40 million churchgoing Anglicans affirmed the historic and orthodox Anglican ... Read more..

Pope Benedict XVI to make first ever official papal visit to Britain

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

Francis Elliott and Ruth Gledhill, Times Pope Benedict XVI will come to Britain next year, making the first state visit by a pontiff. He is expected to meet the Queen, the ... Read more..

Silence may be golden, but not when abuse is involved.

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Incest, News | Comments Off

Karen's older brother told her that there was nothing wrong with him touching her body. And he seemed to know a lot more at age 14 than she did at ... Read more..

Christian Legal Centre statement on DPP’s Assisted Suicide Guidelines

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics, News | Comments Off

The Christian Legal Centre is deeply concerned at the publication by the DPP today, 23rd September, of interim guidelines relating to assisted suicide and factors which will weigh against prosecution. Although ... Read more..

State Supreme Court rules in long-running Pawley’s Island case: Presiding Bishop ‘disappointed’.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in News, TEC | Comments Off

By Mary Frances Schjonberg, September 23, 2009[Episcopal News Service] The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision in favor of the minority of the members of the parish ... Read more..

Assisted suicide guidelines do not give immunity against prosecution, says DPP

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

From Timesonline New guidelines on assisted suicide give no guarantee against prosecution, the Director of Public Prosecutions warned today. Keir Starmer, QC, said that prosecution was unlikely as long as people do ... Read more..

Bishop of Exeter’s Response to the Director of Public Prosecutions’ Interim Policy for Prosecutors in Respect of Cases of Assisted Suicide

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

The Bishop of Exeter, the Rt Revd Michael Langrish, has released a statement responding to the Director of Public Prosecutions' Interim Policy for Prosecutors in Respect of Cases of Assisted ... Read more..

Police seek transsexuals and gays to guard royals

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, Political Correctness | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Homosexuals and transsexuals have been given special encouragement to apply for a job with the police squad responsible for guarding the Queen. The opening in the Royalty Protection ... Read more..

Christians face trial for criticising Islam

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Cranmer's Blogspot Cranmer has been contacted by a personal friend of Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang, Christians and members of the Bootle Christian Fellowship who run the Bounty House Hotel in ... Read more..

Appellate Court Issues Order to Show Cause in San Joaquin

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By A S Haley, The Anglican Curmudgeon Word was received this afternoon that the Fifth District Court of Appeal has formally accepted Bishop Schofield's petition to review the ruling and order ... Read more..

Faith Diary: Changing loyalties

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Church of England, Islam, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Robert Pigott, BBC News Although the Church of England has had women priests for 15 years, some traditionalists still believe that the fact that they are women means they cannot validly ... Read more..

The sex degrees of separation

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture | Comments Off

From Metro The average British adult has indirectly had sex with 2,811,024 people. Those of you finding the figures shocking can input your own personal data into a new internet calculator that ... Read more..

Deadline extended for consultations over the next Bishop of Chelmsford

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

In response to concerns which have been raised about the consultation process regarding the next Bishop of Chelmsford, the deadline for communicating with the Prime Minister's and Archbishops' Appointment Secretaries ... Read more..

A dopey judge, a lesbian teacher and an insidious bid to lower the age of consent

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, Mailonline You really do have to wonder whether the adult world any longer understands what its responsibility towards children actually entails. Earlier this week Helen Goddard, a 26-year-old music ... Read more..

A History Of Christianity – major new religious series for BBC Four

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

  Presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians and Professor of History of the Church and Fellow at St Cross College Oxford - A History Of Christianity ... Read more..

Second schoolboy, nine, arrives at school as girl

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Gender | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Another schoolboy has been introduced to his classmates as a girl, and this time he is aged nine. It follows last week’s news of a twelve-year-old boy who ... Read more..

Cathedral appoints Muslim member of staff

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Islam | Comments Off

By Matt Cresswell, Religious Intelligence Bradford Cathedral has appointed a Muslim as the Cathedral’s first Interfaith Development Officer. Nuzhat Ali is to be the second Muslim the Church of England has ... Read more..

Legalise sex at 13, says Professor on BBC

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute The BBC will broadcast a show featuring an academic’s plea for the age of consent to be lowered so that young teenagers are free to have sex. Professor ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury: greed driving mankind towards catastrophe

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Culture | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Times The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned of environmental and financial “catastrophe” unless mankind does something about its greed. In a lecture in Japan, Dr Rowan Williams outlined the ... Read more..

‘Honor killing’ could await Rifqa in Sri Lanka

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in Islam, News | Comments Off

Jim Brown - OneNewsNow  WASHINGTON, DC - A former Muslim who is now the head of an evangelical Christian seminary is warning that the 17-year-old Ohio girl who fled to Florida ... Read more..