Popular Christmas carols are 'nonsense' and have turned the birth of Jesus Christ into a fairy story, according to a respected bishop.
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November 29th, 2009
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November 29th, 2009
Switzerland risked a Muslim backlash on Sunday after its citizens voted overwhelmingly to ban minarets on mosques.
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November 29th, 2009
Some traditional carols are 'nonsense' and have turned Jesus into a Father Christmas figure, according to a leading bishop.
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November 29th, 2009
It will be a 'long road to recovery' for the people of Cockermouth after last week?s devastating floods, the Team Rector, the Revd Wendy Sanders, warned as clergy in West Cumbria joined the relief operation in the flood-affected region.
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November 29th, 2009
At the start of the Liturgical Year, Benedict XVI emphasises that Jesus Christ is the hope rich and developing peoples as well as believers and non-believers need. His thoughts go to AIDS patients, especially children and the very poor.
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November 29th, 2009
David Cameron could be forced to water down plans to give tax breaks to married couples amid fears that they are unaffordable.
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November 29th, 2009
Swiss voters defied their Government and churches today and approved a ban on building minarets ? reflecting an alarming hostility to a rising Muslim minority.
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November 29th, 2009
Hundreds of clergy and church members gathered in Canterbury Cathedral to bid farewell to the Bishop of Dover, who is retiring after 10 years in the role.
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November 29th, 2009
Recently, a home-schooled young woman told me, 'I now really see that everything starts with the family, and the family is the place where we have to work if we want to change anything.'
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November 29th, 2009
The traditional nuclear family has irretrievably broken down and it will soon become normal for children to be raised by relations other than their parents, the head of a Government-funded parenting group has predicted.