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Archive for February, 2011

News from Christchurch, New Zealand – Damage is widespread but rarely shown on television.

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

Rosemary Behan in Sydney has family in Christchurch. At the moment of course, people are in rescue mode, but in the streets of Christchurch people are dealing with smelly houses from ... Read more..

Catholic archbishop accuses coalition over gay marriage in church move

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Riazat Butt, Guardian The Catholic church is on a collision course with the government after declaring it will oppose in the "strongest terms" changes to the Equality Act that will ... Read more..

Christians urge Gove to include RE in English Baccalaureate

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Posted in Education, Faith, Petitions | Comments Off

By Maria Mackay, Christian Today Christians from across the board are getting behind a major campaign to see Religious Education included in the new English Baccalaureate. The R.E.ACT campaign, led by ... Read more..

New Zealand Bishops ask for prayers

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Posted in Prayer | Comments Off

From Anglican Church of Canada In the aftermath of a 6.3 earthquake that has devastated the New Zealand city of Christchurch and seriously damaged the Anglican Cathedral, the Archbishops and Standing ... Read more..

EHRC now targets ‘gay-only’ guesthouses. Just in case any straight Christian fundamentalists were planning a night in one

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Ed West, Telegraph [...]  That few other Tories have been condemning this law can only be due to a fear of being branded homophobic, but defending a citizen’s right to ... Read more..

Christ Church Cathedral New Zealand damaged by earthquake

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

Christ Church Cathedral in Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand has been damaged in an earthquake that hit the city centre on Tuesday 1 p.m. New Zealand Time, claiming at least ... Read more..

Religious education under threat in our secondary schools

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Posted in ECUSA, Petitions, Take Action! | Comments Off

In January 2011, the coalition government introduced the English Baccalaureate curriculum to secondary schools in England. GCSE Religious Education was deliberately excluded from this new Gold standard programme despite it's ... Read more..

RC Bishops to challenge UK laws allowing gay marriage in churches

Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage | Comments Off

By Austen Ivereagh, America Magazine I posted last week on the British government's announcement that it intends to allow the registration of same-sex civil partnerships on religious premises, if these are ... Read more..

Civil Partnerships and gay ‘marriage’: Why all the fuss?

Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage | Comments Off

By Lisa Severine Nolland, Christian Today Gay marriage will lead to the mainstreaming of all other kinds of sexual relations Many people cannot seem to understand what the problem with gay ‘marriage’ ... Read more..

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not a benevolent society

Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in Conflict, Islam | Comments Off

By Michael Coren, MercatorNet Its links with radical Islamists and a history of supporting terror make Egypt’s largest opposition group a danger for peace in the Middle East. Westerners, Western journalists in ... Read more..

Census: How religious is the UK?

Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

From BBC News A publicity drive has started for the census, now just five weeks away, but the survey is being criticised for its question on religion. So is it even ... Read more..

Debate on Civil Partnerships in Church on ITV Daybreak

Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

Rev Paul Dawson, Rev Bennie Hazlehurst and Canon Chris Sugden on ITV Daybreak Thursday February 17  View here   Read more..

Fact check: Johann Hari’s attack on the Lords Spiritual in the Independent

Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Politics | Comments Off

From The Church Mouse On Friday Johann Hari caused quite a storm through his article in the Independent on reform of the House of Lords.  It read every bit like something ... Read more..

The Church will have to fight this attempt to redefine marriage

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Austen Ivereagh, America Magazine It's hard so far to see the tempest behind the first clouds and hastening winds. But an announcement yesterday by the UK government that it intends ... Read more..

Gordon Brown attacks ‘holier than thou’ politicians who claim religious sanction for their actions

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Faith, Politics | Comments Off

From Cranmer [...]  This is the man who 'did God' quite a few times when it suited him, with appeals to a 'Christian country', or appearances on Songs of Praise. And ... Read more..

Fulcrum Statement On the Use of Religious Buildings for Registration of Civil Partnerships

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Civil Partnerships | Comments Off

Fulcrum notes with appreciation undertakings given by the Church of England and the Catholic Church that they will not allow their churches to be used for ceremonies registering or celebrating ... Read more..

Communion on the Verge of a Breakdown: What Then Shall We Do?

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Communion, Schism | Comments Off

By Rev Dr Philip Turner, ACI The Meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion just concluded in Dublin might well mark the breakdown and consequent breakup of what has been ... Read more..

A Not Too Subtle Attempt to Mislead

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Communion, TEC | Comments Off

By A S Haley The Presiding Bishop and her Executive Council are currently meeting in Fort Worth, and while Cherie Wetzel saw a milder, gentler tone to the opening of the ... Read more..

Gay hotels investigated for breaching equality laws

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph Hotels that only accept homosexuals are being investigated by a government-funded watchdog for discriminating against heterosexual couples. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is examining whether "gay-only" guesthouses ... Read more..

Toronto gay blessings do not breach the moratoria on gay blessings, ACC rules

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada, Same-sex blessings | Comments Off

By George Conger,  The Church of England Newspaper. The appointment of advocates of same-sex blessings to the Anglican Communion’s ARCIC team does not violate the Archbishop of Canterbury’s ban on participation ... Read more..