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Young people put others to shame

Young people have a strong sense of right and wrong and should have the courage to make their voice heard.

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Princess visits community garden

From Anna Morell, Archbishop's Media Officer / Swyddog y Cyfryngau i'r Archesgob

The Princess Royal visited a city church today (Wed) to plant a tree in its new community garden.

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Creation is focus of Church's Hub

The role of God as creator will come under the spot light in a rural seminar next week.

Creation theology and its relationship to today’s rural and environmental issues will be discussed at the event at the Royal Welsh Showground.

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Have your say in future of the Church - Archbishop

By Anna Morrell, Archbishop's Media Officer / Swyddog y Cyfryngau i'r Archesgob

Parishioners across Wales are being invited to share their ideas for the future of the Church in Wales with a team of advisers who are conducting an independent root and branch review.

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Welsh pupils parade school banners at Westminster

Pupils from across Wales will be celebrating 200 years of church schools at a special service in London tomorrow (Oct 14).

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Cathedral turns into a circus for children's day

By Anna Morrell, Archbishop of Wales' Media Officer / Swyddog y Cyfryngau i'r Archesgob

Lion tamers, acrobats, clowns and jugglers will transform Llandaff Cathedral into a Big Top circus this weekend to entertain children from across South Wales.

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Celtic Bishops gather in Scotland for bi-annual conference

The Diocesan Bishops of the Anglican Celtic Churches (Scotland, Ireland and Wales) together with their Primates will meet in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland from Monday 26th to Thursday 29th September. The bishops of the celtic churches meet together every two years and each of the three provinces takes it in turns to host the meeting.

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The Primate of the Church in Wales' presidential address

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

GOVERNING BODY

In this Presidential Address, I want to reflect on a number of issues of concern to our nation and church.

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Hymn singing festival starts on a high note

The Archbishop of Wales joined hundreds of people from all over the country at a Rhondda church on Sunday to celebrate the revival of community hymn singing.

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Wales is praying for the trapped miners and their families - Archbishop of Wales

The Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan, who grew up in a village close to Cilybebyll, the son of a miner, said, “My thoughts and prayers are with the trapped miners and their families. I understand the anguish they are going through and I know they will draw strength from the community which is now enveloping itself around them. They can be assured that the whole of Wales is praying for them.

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Rhondda vicar aims to revive hymn singing

A Rhondda vicar who has spent the past decade bringing music back into the community, has set himself a national challenge – to revive community hymn singing across the whole of Wales.

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Metal thieves steal lead from cathedral

By Anna Morrell, Archbishop’s Media Officer, Church in Wales

Churches across the Diocese are being urged to do everything they can to protect their buildings from thieves after £10,000 worth of lead was stolen from the roof of St Asaph Cathedral.

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Archbishop of Wales warns elite to put their own house in order

by David Williamson, Western Mail

Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan yesterday warned that the British elite must put their own house in order as the country reels from the riots that shattered neighbourhoods across England last week.

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Church says farewell to senior advisor

A senior Church advisor who has built up strong links between the church and Welsh organizations will retire at the end of this month (July).

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"Hub tackles rural challenges" - Archbishop

Anna Morrell, Church in Wales

A series of seminars launched at the Royal Welsh Show has been praised by the Archbishop of Wales for bringing people together to tackle the challenges facing rural communities.

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Faith in Education - joint report highlights contribution of church schools

By Anna Morrell, Archbishop's Media Officer, Church in Wales

The role church schools can play in helping to raise standards of education in Wales will be discussed in a seminar today led by the Welsh Education Minister Leighton Andrews and two Archbishops.

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New website helping churches to become more child-friendly

By Anna Morrell, Archbishop's Media Officer, Church in Wales.

Help to make church a friendlier place for children and young families is the aim of a new website packed with resources for Sunday School leaders and playgroup organisers.

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No scrambled Easter message with Real egg, says Bishop

By Anna Morrell, The Church in Wales

CHRISTMAS may only be a few weeks away but the Bishop of Swansea & Brecon  is urging church schools and Parishes to think about Easter already.

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Young Muslims raise funds for Church Gaza appeal

A group of young Muslims are backing a Church in Wales appeal for humanitarian aid in Gaza.

They have raised more than £1,000 for a mobile dental clinic delivering frontline medical aid around the bombed out streets of Gaza. The clinic, which has been funded totally by the Church in Wales since 2000, is part of the work of family health centres in Gaza run by the Near East Council of Churches.

Members of the Young Muslim Community Organisation in Newport, South Wales, held a bazaar to raise money following an appeal by the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, for urgent aid for the work of the NECC clinics. The appeal was intensified after a direct missile attack destroyed one of the family centres in Shij’ia last month.

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Archbishop of Wales seeks explanation for destruction of Gaza health clinic

The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, has written to the Israeli Ambassador to London on Tuesday 13th January asking why a church-run healthcare clinic was bombed in Gaza over the weekend.

The Shij'ia Family Health Care Centre in Gaza City, run by the Near East Council of Churches (NECC), was destroyed by direct Israeli missile fire on Saturday night. There are fears too that the mobile dental clinic, also run by the NECC but funded by people in Wales, was also destroyed.

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