Around 30,000 young pilgrims will descend on Poznań, Poland, for the annual Taizé gathering. The ecumenical community, started by Frère Roger in 1944, meets every year in a different European city and embraces a plurality of traditions with a typically high church style of worship. This year pilgrims will focus on a letter written by [...]
The ecclesiastical council of the Church of Denmark, (Den Danske Folkekirke) has endorsed the Porvoo Agreement, and will enter into formal communion with the Church of England, Church of Ireland, Church in Wales, Scottish Episcopal Church and the Lutheran Churches of Nordic and Baltic states. In an announcement distributed to the country’s 2,200 congregations last [...]
A Churchwarden from North Yorkshire has been declared the country’s ‘Unsung Hero of the Rural Church’ and recognised for his hardwork on behalf of the local community in a national competition organised jointly by the magazine ‘Country Life’ and the Church of England. John Fall, (78), a retired farmer, from Kirklington near Ripon, who for [...]
Extremely affordable solar power will soon available to ordinary Ugandans as ToughStuff’s products are set to launch early 2010. On Monday, the first set of products was given as an early Christmas present to Rt Hon Prime Minister of Uganda, Prof Apollo Nsibambi and His Grace the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Henry Luke [...]
To most people old bicycles destined for the scrapheap are just so much scrap iron. But to parishioners of the village Church in Merriott in Somerset they are a lifeline for children in Africa desperate to get to school to continue their education without having to walk for several hours in searing heat to get [...]
Three Birmingham charities have each received a donation of £1,000 from a fund set up a year ago to mark the centenary of The Midland Electric Manufacturing Company Limited (MEM), the Tyseley-based electrical manufacturer, now known as Eaton. St Edmunds Church in Reddings Lane, the SPA Community Centre in Warwick Road and Sutton Coldfield Sea [...]
High-speed broadband will become almost as basic a telephone line in the near future, the Anglican Bishop of Manchester has predicted. Bishop Nigel McCulloch described as “rather too modest” the Government’s target of getting superfast broadband to 90 per cent of homes in the next eight years. In a debate on the Digital Economy Bill [...]
Gloucester Cathedral is on the search for the best pie-maker in the West. It is launching a competition to find an exclusive “Pilgrim’s Pie” made from some of Gloucestershire’s finest local produce. The Cathedral hopes the pie will tempt its hundreds of thousands of visitors to call into its Coffee Shop in the undercroft. The [...]
Free events at the Imperial War Museum North Saturday 23rd – Sunday 31st January 2010. Free entry 27th January 2010 – Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) – is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. To mark this poignant occasion the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s theme for HMD 2010 will be The Legacy of Hope. [...]
