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The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke yesterday at a conference at Church House. Afterwards a young journalist, Sergei Blair, an intern with Religious Intelligence, asked him about John Terry. The Archbishop said: 'Clearly, a lot of people think there isn't a problem there and that’s
a pity because adultery is adultery. It’s a shame that we lost that
sense that faithfulness matters. I’d like to see it back.'

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Lucy Bannerman went to Oxshott and spoke to Terry's vicar, Jeremy Cresswell. Read more about the Archbishop's comments at Religious Intelligence.

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MANILA (UCAN) — Anti-gambling crusader Archbishop Oscar Cruz said he met with Senator Panfilo Lacson before the politician fled the country prior to his being charged in connection with a double-murder case.
Archbishop Cruz,  the Philippine Church’s judicial vicar, said he met Lacson in Intramuros, Manila, days before the senator left in January. The archbishop said [...]

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Christian Vision for Men,  a charity trying to make church attractive to men, is claiming the church has lost 49 per cent of all males under the
age of 30 in the last 20 years due to services becoming too feminine.

They have toured dioceses across Britain encouraging vicars to erect big screens above the pulpit
during this summer’s football World Cup in South Africa and to serve beer during games.

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I have usually found that the closer a religious Christian, Jew or Muslim comes to the Middle East, the madder they become. The most avuncular Shropshire vicar, the kindest Jewish moderate, the most secular Muslim – dump them within a thousand miles of Jerusalem and they have the eyes of Lord Blair of Kut-al-Amara, that crazed, glazed, faith-based lunacy that must have inhabited the eyes of the Crusaders when they slaughtered their way across the Holy Land, dropping off near modern-day Homs in modern-day Syria to consume – literally – some of their Arab enemies. Orthodox priests fight each other over Christ’s tomb; Israeli settlers claim that the Koran is not “a valid document” and local…

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Port au Prince, Haiti, Jan 20, 2010 / 02:43 pm (CNA).- The body of Vicar General Charles Benoit was found beneath the ruins of the Port-au-Prince Cathedral today, a week after the catastrophic earthquake that wreaked havoc on the Haitian community. Vicar General Charles Benoit was discovered with his hands around a reliquary which contained a host inside.

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Wednesday, 13th January 2010. 4:38pm By: Michael Brown . A Vicar has stoutly defended his suggestion – which has angered his archdeacon and the police – that thou canst sometimes steal.

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A British church held an unusual ceremony when a vicar blessed the mobile phones of workers in the City of London financial district. The special service on Monday at the St Lawrence Jewry church, which dates back to 1136, was attended by around 80

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A British church held an unusual ceremony when a vicar blessed the mobile phones of workers in the City of London financial district. The special service on Monday at the St. Lawrence Jewry church, which dates back to 1136, was attended by around 80

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refugees in Copenhagen Per Ramsdal made national headlines when he allowed up to 80 Iraqis who had been denied asylum to take refuge at Brorsons Church in the Nrrebro district. He was charged with hiding illegal asylum seekers soon after the church was

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Priests and vicars routinely picked on by their bishops and parishioners.

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The respected clergyman who negotiated with the kidnappers of five British hostages in Iraq has been told that the final man being held may still be alive. Canon Andrew White, known as the ‘Vicar of Baghdad’, has revealed he had been in secret talks

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For many people, Christmas is the only time they enter a church, and the service can appear unfamiliar. So what can they expect, asks former vicar Mark Vernon. Some 12 million people in the UK are thinking of going to church on Christmas Eve or Christmas

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Witchcraft may be at work in a parish where 14 vicars have been ousted, or quit, in the last 40 years.

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The Auckland priest whose church’s cheeky Christmas billboard provoked vandal attacks has been invited to speak to a Melbourne progressive religion conference. Glynn Cardy, vicar of St Matthew-in-the-City, caused outrage among conservative Christians

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Voxy News Engine Creator of Mary and Joseph Sex Poster Invited to Speak in Melbourne A New Zealand priest, at the centre of a storm over a Christmas billboard, will be invited to speak at a Melbourne Conference. Glynn Cardy, the vicar of Auckland’s St

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A vicar’s wife, who was reported around the world as being a stripper, says she can see the funny side of her ordeal. Diane Stevenson, 44, wrote a church article in which she said she was a stripper. She planned a second piece in which she would reveal she was a chicken stripper at a Nottingham factory. But the story was reported out of context and Diane found herself on the front page of several national newspapers. Mrs Stevenson, whose husband David is the new vicar at St Mary’s Church in…

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Since I am gay, Anglican and British, I am more than disturbed to hear a priest in my own church and my own country concede that “the Ugandans, who are currently considering draconian legislation regarding homosexuality, might actually have a point.”

Writing on his blog today, the Reverend John Richardson points to the failure of a recent legal case to criticize Britain’s supposed lack of religious freedom and to suggest that Uganda has good reason to avoid following the West in “normalizing” homosexuality.

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A vicar from Worcester is taking his diocese to an employment tribunal over claims he was forced out of his “toxic parish”. The Reverend Mark Sharpe said he was retiring on health grounds after being bullied by parishioners who poisoned his dog and

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A vicar claims he has been forced to leave the Church of England after a
four-year campaign of abuse and intimidation from parishioners.

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A teenage girl who bullied vicar’s daughter Rosiemeiri Boxall into jumping to her death from a window was ordered to be detained for eight years today. Hatice Can, 15, was led away in tears as she was told her sentence must be a deterrent to others. Can

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