🛂 Pilot deportations of unsuccessful asylum applicants and others without legal residency, from EU countries to Africa, could start as early as the first half of 2027, Greece’s migration minister has announced. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

🇵🇱 Poland’s predominant Roman Catholic 🇻🇦 Church, which once provided a third of all priestly vocations in Europe 🇪🇺, is recruiting clergy from Africa 🌍 to work in its parishes after a dramatic decline in seminary admissions. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews #RC

🌾 There are encouraging signs of life and growth in rural churches, ✍️ Richard Jackson #Countryside #ChurchTimes #Hereford

💬 Quotes of the week: Striking sayings or writings from the past week. Readers’ contributions welcome #Quotes #ChurchTimes

✒️ Poet's Corner: Spotting white egrets on a river, Malcolm Guite’s mind is carried to Derek Walcott #ChurchTimes

📬 Among this week’s topics: the Hubert Walter interfaith award; Evangelicals and Save the Parish; and Church in Wales funds #LettersToTheEditor #ChurchTimes

➡️ Bishops have a right to challenge political parties’ policies and the Conservative Party in opposition must “listen to churches” in preparing for government, the parliamentary director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship said. #ChurchTimes

👣 A man who completed a two-week pilgrimage from Winchester to Canterbury to raise funds for, and awareness of, vulnerable 🚸 children across the UK said that he had been motivated by seeing “the struggles that some children go through”. #ChurchTimes

🇺🇸 🇺🇳 She highlights the role of faith communities in supporting healthcare and vulnerable people in conflict zones #ArchbishopOfCanterbury #ChurchTimes

💻 Church House promises clearer application tracking, improved document management, and role-based access for users #ChurchTimes #Faculty #ChurchBuildings

The independent Executive Chair of the Safeguarding Structures Programme Board, Dame Christine Ryan, is to step down after only a year in post, it was announced on Tuesday. #ChurchTimes #Safeguarding

🌏 Among the snippets this week: Kenyan Churches back changes to tobacco laws, and FTSE 100 urged to put climate plans to shareholders #WorldBriefs #ChurchTimes

📘 Review: 'The Eucharistic God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit' by Ralph McMichael — What if the eucharist comes first and not last, ✍️ Sam Hole #ChurchTimes #BookReviews

🕊️ Obituary: Trevor Tutu — ‘Trevor had a brilliant, towering mind, coupled with a wonderful, wicked sense of humour’ #ChurchTimes

🎬 Review: Stephen Brown reviews a document about the ‘riposte’ to The Exorcist #ChurchTimes #FilmReview

‘It’s been obvious for a couple of years that most opinion writers could be replaced by Large Language machines, and many of the most popular ones by rather smaller language machines’ ✍️ Andrew Brown (@seatrout.bsky.social‬) #Comment #ChurchTimes

🎧 Azariah France-Williams on What Now? with Trevor Noah, Past Present Future, Divine Intervention Podcast, and Fresh Air #PodcastReviews #ChurchTimes

📗 Review: 'Into All the Parish: Pioneering practices for every local church' by Greg Bakker and Tina Hodgett — Philip Welsh asks what happens when the careful listening stops #BookReviews #ChurchTimes

📖 James Roberts celebrates 500 years of a publication that changed the world #TyndaleBible #ChurchTimes

The wisdom, skills, and resilience of retired ordained ministers should not be taken for granted, argues Guli Francis-Dehqani #Comment #ChurchTimes