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Stories of Christians in action, both at home and around the world
- The Clergy Support Trust, formerly Sons & Friends of the Clergy, helps Anglican clergy and their families in times of need with various grants. This year, they are seeking to double the number of clergy and families whom they reach, offering assistance with financial support grants, health grants, emergency grants, wellbeing grants, and debt support....Looking for clergy in need of financial support
- An Anglican church leader has explained the Church’s official stance on yoga in churches after a church in Devon rejected a request from a yoga instructor to hold a class in its church hall. Archdeacon Mark Butchers of Barnstaple, who oversees churches in North Devon, told the news site Devon Live that Church of England...Yoga and church halls
- Growing insecurity in Iraq and on its border could lead to a fresh exodus of Christians from the country, warns a partner of Release International, which is supporting refugees in the country. Only around 300,000 Christians remain in Iraq from a peak of 1.8 million in the year 2000. They’ve been driven out by conflict...New wave of Christians set to flee Iraq
- The two earthquakes which recently rocked Albania caused massive damage, killing at least 47 people and injuring 750. The first was magnitude 6.4, the worst earthquake Albania has experienced for decades. In the weeks since the quakes, the Albanian Evangelical Alliance has been coordinating churches across the country to provide hot meals, tents, blankets, transport...After the Albanian earthquakes
- Ethical Christmas presents ‘Tis the season for Angels! Free gifts for festive shoppers C of E’s Environment Group calls for greater action on Climate Change The Nazareth Trust – working to heal and improve lives Millennium yew trees – 20 years on Don’t ignore RE! Paradise and the Final Judgement in danger of flaking **...Looking at your Church (all articles) for December 2019
- How much damage to the earth will we manage to do this Christmas? Those hundreds of millions of presents we are going to buy come from somewhere – usually raw resources. Are the presents worth the strain on our already struggling planet? Here are some alternative presents, that are eco-friendly, useful, and fairly traded. Christian...Ethical Christmas presents
- Angels make a big appearance in the story of Christmas, but over the next few weeks other kinds of angels will be making appearances throughout the country, on streets and inside nightclubs. Teams of Street Angels and Club Angels will work hard this month to help to keep communities and people, especially within the night-time...‘Tis the season for Angels!
- Families shopping this festive season will receive two great giveaways telling the Christmas story. HOPE Together, Bible Society and Speak Life are working with The Entertainer toy stores to help customers appreciate the reason for the season. The Entertainer chain is the UK’s largest independent toy retailer and each store has a nativity scene in...Free gifts for festive shoppers
- The Church of England’s Environmental Advisory Group has called for all parts of the Church to recognise the Climate Crisis and step up its action to safeguard God’s creation. In guidance sent recently to bishops, dioceses and church leadership teams, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) points to the ambitious programme of action required, covering everything...C of E’s Environment Group calls for greater action on Climate Change
- This year the Nazareth Trust has raised funds to support renovation work in the Nazareth Hospital’s Maternity Department. Over £60,000 was raised, renovations are well underway. For 2020, the aim is to launch a new International Volunteer Chaplaincy. As a spokesman explains, “At our hospital, we encounter over 300,000 people every year. We want to...The Nazareth Trust – working to heal and improve lives
- 20 years ago, as 1999 drew to a close, the Church of England marked the Millennium by distributing thousands of young yew trees across England. In all, about 7000 seedlings were given to parishes requesting them. It was explained that the yew tree could be seen as ‘a metaphor for the life of faith in...Millennium yew trees – 20 years on
- The number of schools ignoring Religious Education (RE) laws has risen, according to recent research by the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE). In a survey of more than 600 schools across England, it was found that half of academies without a religious character and 40 per cent of community schools do not meet...Don’t ignore RE!