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USPG: Anglicans in World Mission, has been heartened by the response to the call to prayer issued for (27th April 2008) by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

The Rt Revd Michael Doe, General Secretary of USPG today said: “USPG: Anglicans in World Mission, as the principal Anglican agency working in the Dioceses of Zimbabwe, has been overwhelmed by the response individuals, parishes and Dioceses are making to the call to prayer.

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The House of Bishops is to discuss the report of the Legislative Drafting Group considering proposals to allow for women bishops at its next meeting in May. The report of the group, chaired by the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester, has been published today and will be debated by General Synod in July (the report can be read in full at: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/papers/womenbishopsreport

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The Archbishop of York is set to take the ultimate “leap of faith” to raise money for the families of soldiers killed or injured in Afghanistan.

Dr John Sentamu will hurl himself from a plane at 12,500ft with the Parachute Regiment Red Devils display team from RAF Langer near Nottingham in six weeks time on 27 May 2008.

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The EU Budget, in not matching up to the EU’s’ objectives, fails to provide sufficiently for the European Common Good, concludes the Church of England House of Bishops’ Europe Panel in a submission to the European Commission’s Budget Review exercise calling for a greener Budget.

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Church leaders and other Christians from across the city will be offering to polish peoples’ shoes free of charge in a modern re-enactment of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.

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The Rt Revd James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, spoke during the report stage of the Climate Change Bill yesterday (11 March), in support of a new government amendment to ensure that the membership of the new committee on climate change would have expertise on international matters, as well as domestic ones.

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An emergency fund has been set up to support the work of the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe as it re-establishes its mission and ministry following changes in the leadership of Harare Diocese.

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As the Government publishes its amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill to abolish the blasphemy laws, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, have made public their response to the Government's consultation. In their response the Archbishops make clear their affirmation of the central place of Christianity in British public life and call on the government to explain precisely what the removal of the blasphemy laws does and does not mean for those living out their religious faith in society.

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Lambeth Palace Library – the historic library and record office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, founded in 1610 – has acquired a document intimately involved with one of Britain’s most dramatic historical events, after benefactors of the Library donated funds to keep a copy of the warrant for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots in the U.K.

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The Archbishop of York is to visit Kenya to offer prayers and solidarity for the people caught up in the current troubles.

After a long telephone conversation with the Most Revd. Benjamin Nzimbi, Archbishop of Kenya, both Archbishops agreed that the visit to Kenya during this time to join in prayers for peace and reconciliation in the predominantly Christian country would be invaluable.

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After five days spent celebrating the week of prayer for Christian Unity

In addition to praying, preaching and presiding with Christian Communities in Rome from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal and Methodist backgrounds, Archbishop Sentamu was also able to meet Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Walter Kasper – the Vatican’s head of inter-church relations, Archbishop Pius Ncube, the former Archbishop of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, in addition to meeting British Ambassadors to the Vatican and Italy.

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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, as Presidents of the General Synod, have submitted a Church of England Response to the draft Anglican Covenant published last year for discussion around the Anglican Communion.

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Advent and Christmas resource pack from Amos Trust

Amos Trust has launched it's latest resource pack, Voices from the Ghetto - Bethlehem 2007 to assist churches in capturing the reality of present day Bethlehem in their Advent and Christmas services.

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Dear Friends,

I am writing to ask you if you will please visit, use and send on to others our special Internet Advent Calendar. As you will see, it is a matrix of 25 boxes. Box 1 opens now to give an idea of what is to come. Box 2 will be openable on Advent Sunday. The other boxes can be opened day by day right up to Christmas.

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Dr. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, has today called upon the Government to abandon its plans to remove the requirement for a father in IVF treatment.

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The Most Revd and Rt. Hon. Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, will today present two slave vases to the Speaker of the House of Lords and House of Commons representing both Houses of Parliament to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have published a consultation paper on the process for future Crown appointments to senior Church posts. The consultation is a response to the Green Paper, The Governance of Britain, published on July 3, which signalled the Government’s wish to change the role Ministers and civil servants play in some Church appointments.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, addressed a gathering of the first candidates for ordained pioneer ministry this week at Lambeth Palace.

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The Church of England’s General Synod is repeating last year’s ‘virtual question time’, highlighting the growing ways in which the Church is using the web and other electronic communications media.

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Clergy and congregations are being asked to celebrate the life and animal welfare work of William Wilberforce this Animal Welfare Sunday (Sunday 7 October 2007).

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