An overview with links to six church related news reports
Church of England Podcast – Synod agenda
Secretary General William Fittall takes a look at the agenda for the November 2012 Group of sessions of the Church of England’s General Synod. To listen to the podcast go to: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/engage-with-us-online/podcasts.aspx
Group says Church of England vicar anti-Semitic
Jerusalem Post – Britain’s Jewish community representative organization has taken the unprecedented step of lodging a formal complaint to the Church of England, the country’s officially established Christian church, accusing one of its clergyman of anti-Semitism.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=290233
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/89022/antisemite%E2%80%99-vicar-board-deputies-complaint
Several reports looking at ONS figures and stating that “thenumber of children being brought up by unmarried couples in Britain has doubled since the mid-1990s”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9649093/Number-of-unmarried-parents-doubles.html#
Report that “a married vicar [in Somerset] has been suspended from his job after he was arrested on suspicion of voyeurism”.
Items reporting that Cardinal Keith O’Brien, “Britain’s most senior Catholic”, “was named Stonewall’s Bigot of the Yeart”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-20175530
Short item looking at a new stained glass window in the chapel of the Savoy that has been unveiled by The Queen; it contains symbols of the Church of England.