March 1, 2001 Rules may be relaxed

LondonThe Church of England could permit divorcees to remarry in church as early as next year after a consultation with church representatives from eight dioceses. Seven of the dioceses expressed strong support for the idea. ...

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February 1, 2001 Canada, U.K. act on foreign debt

Toronto The international Jubilee campaign to have governments cancel debts by the world's poorest countries made sudden and unexpected headway late last year. In December, Finance Minister Paul Martin announced that...

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February 1, 2001 Newspaper challenges legal ban on Catholic monarchs

LondonA British newspaper is challenging the rule that a British monarch cannot be a Roman Catholic or marry one, saying that this infringes on fundamental human rights. The London-based Guardian also declared that it...

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February 1, 2001 Scribes' shrine set up

LondonCanon David Meara, of St. Bride's Church in London is creating an Internet shrine to journalists killed, maimed, or imprisoned throughout Europe. The church, known as the "journalists' cathedral," created an altar to...

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January 1, 2001 Violence pervasive

LondonDomestic violence against women is as common in church-supporting households as in the wider community, according to the results of a Methodist research project. One in four respondents to a survey had either...

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November 1, 2000 Money changers to be made welcome

The Church of England is considering installing cash machines in thousands of rural churches. Senior officials want to exploit the vacuum left by the closure of bank branches by encouraging churches to revert to their role...

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September 1, 1999 England revives heresy trials

York A more outward-looking, confident and united Church of England was promised by the newly formed Archbishops' Council, a cabinet for the church, but General Synod also saw a return to hostilities between lay people and the...

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September 1, 1999 English ordination figures surge higher

London At a time when many churches in the West face a shortage of new vocations to the priesthood, the Church of England is enjoying a surge in ordinations. Archdeacon Gordon Kuhrt, director of ministry for the...

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September 1, 1999 Respected cardinal dies

London Basil Hume, who died of cancer in hospital on June 17 at the age of 76, never wanted to lead the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and he certainly had no designs on the papacy though he was often talked about...

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May 1, 1999 Prosecutors drop sex assault case of archbishop

London Prosecuting authorities have decided not to bring a case against the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, John Ward, who was arrested in January over a claim that he sexually abused a young girl more than 30 years...

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