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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 […]

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

Happy Birthday to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham – Pope Benedict’s structure to provide a space for former Anglicans in the Roman Catholic Church, is one year old tomorrow. I’ll be reporting for BBC Radio Four’s Sunday Programme, looking back at the Ordinariate’s past year and looking forward to its future. You can hear the […]

New front in Israeli / Palestinian conflict opens up in Britain’s system of advertising regulation

Last week, Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority released its latest adjudication on an advert by the Israeli Government Tourist Office in London. The advert featured the feeding of the five thousand and the authority ruled that it was not misleading or offensive for the national press and magazine advert to say “the masses have always been […]