The diocese of Wakefield arranged a visit to Britain for a group of religious leaders and law enforcement officials from an area of pakistan where nine Christians were killed in Muslim-led riots. Our reporter Gavin Drake spent the day with them in Yorkshire. The Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4
Month: February 2012
Judgment by employment tribunal upholds clergy office-holder status
The chairman of the House of Clergy in the diocese of Worcester, Canon Stuart Currie, has welcomed a judgment by the Birmingham employment tribunal that clergy are office-holders rather than employees. The Employment Judge, Alan McCarry, made the ruling after a claim brought by the former Rector of Teme Valley South, near Tenbury Wells, the […]
Clergy can join new association
The country’s largest union, Unite, announced the launch of the Church of England Clergy Association (CECA) on Monday. Despite four years of talks with the House of Clergy, however, it has received only a cautious welcome. In 2008, the General Synod’s House of Clergy established a working group to explore the establishment of a body […]
The Church of England General Synod
The General Synod of the Church of England met in London, at Church House, Westminster, from the 6th to the 9th February. I was there alongside CT assistant editor Glyn Paflin and staff and freelance writers Ed Thornton, Madeleine Davies and Margaret Duggan. Together we produced a 12-page special report for the General Synod Digest, a […]
The General Synod debates women bishops
Gavin Drake reports from this week’s meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod where issues around Women Bishops were debated. The Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4
Dr Williams issues warning on Nigeria
Nigeria is “at risk of disintegration” after the recent attacks on Christians, the Archbishop of Canterbury said this week. Dr Williams, speaking in an emergency debate in the General Synod on Wednesday, said that the situation in Nigeria was “not a few issues of interfaith conflict, but the threatened disintegration of a society”. Church Times