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Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Hindu temple in gesture of peace

London, Nov 4 (IANS) Britain's most powerful church leader is to visit a large Hindu temple in central England in a gesture of friendship and peace just weeks after the killings of Christians by Hindu extremists in Orissa.

Canada Anglican to proceed with gay blessing rites

By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian Anglican bishop signaled on Monday he would defy the wishes of the global Anglican church and start drafting a ceremony for blessing homosexual marriages. Bishop Barry Clarke said...

Canada Anglican to proceed with gay blessing rites (Reuters)

By Randall Palmer Randall Palmer – Mon Nov 3, 4:19 pm ET OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian Anglican bishop signaled on Monday he would defy the wishes of the global Anglican church and start drafting a ceremony for blessing...

David Shariatmadari: Behind the Rushdie fatwa

Some blame identity politics; others Islamic theology. Whatever the case, the legacy of the Satanic Verses affair is misunderstanding It's nearly 20 years since the fatwa against Salman Rushdie; the judgment by Ayatollah...

UK Churches announce new Fresh Expressions team leaders

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Methodist Church have announced that the Fresh Expressions (of church) initiative is to continue for a further period of five years, says the UK-based website:

Youngsters turn to Marx in time of pink slips

2 Nov 2008, 0119 hrs IST, Shobhan Saxena,TNN The Marxists of the Groucho & Chico variety are going back to Karl. With Wall Street teetering, Main Street teeming with people with pink slips in their hands and the government...

Life After Lambeth

By Andrew Goddard, Fulcrum Earlier this month Ripon & Leeds DEF hosted a day conference on Life after Lambeth. I spoke alongside Bishop John Ellison, recently retired bishop of Paraguay who was at GAFCON (and reported the day...

Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money

Rory Bremner tells Michael Deacon about the funny side of the financial meltdown and how he tricked Margaret Beckett into thinking he was the PM You know you’ve made it in this country when Rory Bremner starts doing impressions...

Canadian Anglicans sit on fence over gay marriages

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Anglican bishops sidestepped a request from the worldwide Anglican Communion to stop blessing gay marriages for now, despite warnings that failure to do so would imperil Anglican unity.

Short seller stands up for short sellers

After Bear Stearns’s demise, each new crisis in the banking sector raised alarms about short selling. When the share price of Morgan Stanley dropped sharply on Sept. 17, Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack declared in a memo to his...