The Church of England will today be plunged into one of the fiercest debates in its 400-year history as traditionalists go head-to-head with liberals over women bishops.
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July 7th, 2008
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July 7th, 2008
Two schoolboys from Stoke-on-Trent have been punished by their comprehensive schoolteacher for refusing to pray to Allah.
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July 4th, 2008
The Church of England's ruling Synod is bracing itself for more disagreements ahead of its meeting in York.
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July 4th, 2008
Abortion laws could be relaxed for the earliest terminations but tightened up for women seeking to end their pregnancy later. MPs on both sides of the debate are preparing to back the compromise.
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July 4th, 2008
When its ruling Synod meets in York for its summer session on Friday, it faces a pincer movement by two deeply divisive issues.
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July 4th, 2008
Britain's most senior judge reopened one of the most highly charged debates in Britain last night when he said he was willing to see sharia law operate in the country, so long as it did not conflict with the laws of England and Wales, or lead to the imposition of severe physical punishments.
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July 4th, 2008
If there is one man not taking an unholy pleasure in the fragmentation of the Church of England, is the leader of England and Wales's Roman Catholics, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.
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July 4th, 2008
Britain's most senior judge declared last night that there was no place for Sharia courts in this country and insisted that all residents were governed by the laws of England and Wales.
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July 4th, 2008
Last night the Lord Chief Justice had the perfect opportunity and location to offer his own contribution to the debate?and nail what he saw as some of the misunderstandings about Dr Williams's comments into the bargain.
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July 4th, 2008
When American and British-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003 neither George Bush nor Tony Blair?devout Christians both?can have imagined that one consequence of their action would be the extinction of Christianity in a land where it had survived for nearly 2,000 years.