🇬🇧 News: Among the snippets this week: Cottrell concludes his Lord’s Prayer Tour, and Supreme Court hears CPS appeal on Benjamin Field case #UKNews #ChurchNews #ChurchTimes

⚓️ Shanty singers greeted the arriving congregation at Exeter Cathedral on Sunday for what is thought to have been the first ever national Harvest of the Sea celebration #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

The cost of long vacancies in sees was among the issues discussed by the House of Bishops at its meeting this week #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

📲 A translation service for churches that can provide live captions and spoken translation on any phone has been enabled by a “huge shift” in machine learning, its product and innovation lead, Mike Ashelby, said this week. #ChurchTimes #Language #ChurchNews

🎄 “Everyone wants their Christmas to be full of joy and light on waste,” the deputy CEO of Transform Trade said, as the charity launched its “Crackerless Christmas” campaign. #ChurchTimes #Christmas #ChurchNews

🏠 Around 300 affordable homes are to be built on land sold by the diocese of Leeds, it was announced last week. #ChurchNews #Housing #ChurchTimes

The downgrading of the British consulate in East Jerusalem will leave diplomatic work in the area “severely hampered”, the Dean of St George’s College, Jerusalem, the Very Revd Canon Richard Sewell, said this week. #ChurchTimes #Israel #Palestine #ChurchNews

💷 The campaign group Christian Climate Action has urged members of the National Trust to compel its trustees to “seek a bank which has a moral and ethical outlook”. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews #NationalTrust

➡️ The Church in the countryside is on the front line of pastoral care for farming communities, the Archbishop of Canterbury said on Monday, after a weekend visit to the diocese of Hereford. #ChurchNews #ChurchTimes

❌ The Consistory Court of the diocese of Southwell & Nottingham has refused to grant the vicar and churchwardens of St Mary’s, Radcliffe-on-Trent, a faculty for the purchase and storage of a “portable immersion baptistery”. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

🇺🇸 A new office of religious affairs is being set up by the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, to which all chaplains in the US military must report. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

British people who espouse Christian nationalist views are a “deeply anxious” group, and conversations with them should explore “what is it that bothers them so much about the state of Britain today”, a new report from Theos suggests. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

As the US Episcopal Church 🇺🇸 struggles with declining numbers and shrinking budgets 📉, one diocese has voted against merging with its neighbour after prolonged discussions, speaking of a need to build more trust. #ChurchTimes #TEC #ChurchNews

🛂 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

A motion setting out the 🟢 Green Party’s opposition to Zionism felt for Jews “uncomfortably close to support for Hamas”, the Bishop of Hereford, the Rt Revd Richard Jackson, said this week. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

Bishops of the US state of Tennessee have appealed for “restraint, human dignity, and mercy” in the case of the botched execution of Christa Pike, who is on life support in hospital. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

Chris Brain, the founder of the Nine O’Clock Service in Sheffield, has been found guilty of one count of rape and four counts of indecent assault, after a second trial. #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews

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⛪︎ Multi-sensory space at church allows people who find sensory stimuli difficult to participate in worship #ChurchTimes #ChurchNews