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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has spoken on BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought programme about the positive effects that social media can offer to small initiatives by bringing them to a larger audience:  “In the aftermath of the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, one student, Sam Johnson, put out a call through Twitter for help in clearing up after the earthquake and doing some basic rescue work.  Thousands of students from all the way across New Zealand turned up and spent weeks and months in Christchurch doing essential work and getting a community on its feet again.”

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In his final appearance in the House of Lords as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams leads a debate about the place and contribution of older people in society.

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In a video message about the legislation for women bishops, the Bishop of Willesden, the Rt Revd Pete Broadbent, urges those thinking of voting against the legislation to think again as ‘there is now in the Measure sufficient provision for those who are against, and there’s a real sense in which what we are doing is affirming women on equal terms with men’.

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In a video message for the Archbishop’s campaign to support the current legislation for women bishops, Rebecca Swinson - the youngest-ever member of Archbishops’ Council – outlines why she wants to see the legislation for women bishops passed at this November’s Synod.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has expressed his shock andsadness at the violent attack on Malala Yousafzai and two other school girls in Pakistan.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has sent a greeting to Jewish communities on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, marking the start of the Jewish New Year.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has sent his annual greetings to Muslim communities for the festival of Eid Al-Fitr on Sunday 19th August, marking the end of Ramadan.

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In his contribution to BBC Radio 2's Pause For Thought programme this morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury expresses his hope that The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will give people the 'chance to get in touch with the background of their lives, the big context, the things that make this the sort of world it is and give us the sort of values we have'.

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Archbishop of Canterbury's contribution to House of Lords debate on role and contribution of faith communities

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, made a contribution to Lord Sacks’ debate in the House of Lords today, in which he affirmed how our present-day political and legal settlement owes much to 'a long conversation with the Jewish and Christian intellectual world, with the ethics and theology of the human responsibility characteristic of that world'. He also praised the Department for International Development for their work on protocols for partnership with faith organisations in the field of aid and development.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will chair the 11th Annual Building Bridges Seminar in London and Canterbury, from April 23 – 25, 2012.

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Archbishop on Bonhoeffer - what it means to be free

In a sermon broadcast live on BBC Radio 4's Sunday Worship, Archbishop Rowan Williams preached on the theme of freedom - what it means to be free and how we can achieve the true freedom ‘to be what we most deeply are’.

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