FOLLOWING the conviction late last month of an East Sussex vicar – The Rev Alex Brown, 61 – who conducted 360 fake marriage ceremonies at the church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards-on-Sea comes news that two clergymen have been arrested as part of an inquiry into sham marriages in London. The [...]
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BRIGHTON, with fewer believers than anywhere else in the UK, has the reputation of being Britain’s most godless city. At the epicentre of much of this godlessness is the city’s sizeable gay population of around 35,000 – the majority of whom regard faith-heads as their natural enemies. With 13 percent of its total population being [...]
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TWO new mayors in the UK have sparked anger among Christians by kicking council prayers to the kerb. Less than a month after he took up the chains of office, Labour councillor Colin Hall this week found himself in the firing line after expressing his “delight” at being able to end the tradition council prayers [...]
A LESBIAN couple from Dorset say they were forced out of their church after they were spotted holding hands during a service. Kersten Pegden and Nina Lawrence said that other members of the congregation at St Nicholas Anglican church in Corfe Mullen thought their behaviour was “overtly sexual”. They said other couples within the congregation [...]
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A GRAVE threat to Christianity has been nipped in the bud by a Yorkshire clergyman. Reverend David Rhodes, of All Saints Church Hall in Totley, Yorkshire, has banned weekly Tai Chi classes in the church hall – and in doing so has angered and perplexed a group of pensioners, who attended the classes to relax [...]
FIRST, the “bad” news: the dear old Church of England has been hit by a new slump in its congregations, with the latest figures showing its fifth year-on-year decline. Also, the Church’s first analysis of its worshippers showed that nearly half are pensioners. The established Church has lost more than 40,000 worshippers since 2003, shortly [...]
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