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Friday, 15 September 2017 10:05
Friday Focus: empowering peer to peer evangelism
The best and most authentic evangelism takes place in the context of relationship. Mission Academy Live launches on 16 September, using 10 video-based sessions to empower thousands of 11-18s across the country to reach out -…
Friday, 15 September 2017 10:03
UK response to British territories’ needs
Troops and police officers have been sent to the British Virgin Islands, where 100 ‘very serious’ prisoners escaped from jail after hurricane Irma. Boris Johnson said the military presence there is ratcheting up now, with a…
Friday, 15 September 2017 10:00
Parents remove son from CofE school
A six-year-old boy’s parents removed him from a church school, in a row over another boy wearing a dress. Their son was confused as to why the boy dressed as both a boy and a girl.…
Friday, 15 September 2017 09:56
Priests-in-training and the BCP
The Prayer Book Society gives free copies of the 17th-century Book of Common Prayer to first-year students in theological colleges. This year they will also be given a key to some of the BCP’s more old-fashioned…
Friday, 15 September 2017 09:54
Prisoner 'suicidal' 11 years into ten-month jail term
33-year-old James Ward has a low IQ and mental health problems. In 2006 he fought with his father and was given a ten-month jail sentence. Unable to cope with prison life, he set fire to his…
Friday, 15 September 2017 09:52
Missing people
Over 335,000 missing person calls were made in 2015/16. One in every five had mental health issues. 3,000 people have been missing for over 10 years. Andrew Gosden is one of them. In 2007 14-year-old Andrew…