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Involving older people in church activities should be a priority, a group of Christians who work with the elderly has said.
ChurchCHURCH TIMES, 22nd November 2019
 
Some parts of the evangelical world in England are growing quite quickly. Between 2005 and 2010 the number of mainstream evangelical churchgoers grew by over 100,000 new people per annum to reach 650,000, half of all the 1.3 million evangelicals in 2010.
ChurchEvangelicals Now, January 2020
 
More than half the 2755 UK adults surveyed by the Children's Society had never heard of a Christingle service, or did not know what it was. But almost 90 percent agreed or strongly agreed that helping people in difficulty during the Christmas period was important.
ChurchChurch Times, 29th November 2019
 
A decade of austerity has driven churches in the UK to form partnerships with non-faith voluntary organisations to address issues including poverty, mental health and loneliness in communities.
ChurchChurch Times
 
The Church of England have partnered with the Messy Church movement in the hope of deepening the faith of families and children that attend these non-traditional church services.
ChurchYouth And Children's Work
 
A common antidepressant does little to relieve symptoms of depression but is effective at cutting anxiety, University College London researchers say. The biggest study of its kind found that most people taking sertraline saw little or no effect on depressive symptoms, such as low mood, lack of interest in things and poor sleep, in the first 12 weeks of taking the drug.
ChurchThe Sentinel, 20th September
 
A record number of Christians are using apps and social media to pray and reflect online, data from the Church of England indicates.
ChurchThe Sentinel, 18th October
 
National initiatives to tackle loneliness should include faith-based communities and organisations, a report on how religious groups combat the problem suggests.
ChurchChurch Times, 5th August
 
The Church of England has been given over £150,000 to invest in training for those ministering at churches on estates across the country. The grant from Allchurches Trust has been given to focus on work with children and young people.
ChurchYouth and Children’s Work, July 2019
 
The Church of England is to provide support for its schools to help them deliver new relationship education required by the Government by next year, including teaching on LGBT relationships and families.
ChurchChurch Times, 19 July 2019
 
Figures from April published by the National Churches Trust show that there are more churches than pubs in the UK.
ChurchEvangelicals Now, June 2019
 
Churches and cathedrals will be eligible to bid for a share of a £100-million pot of National Lottery funding for large-scale heritage projects over the next three years. But the grants are not aimed at restoration schemes only, but also ideas that benefit communities.
ChurchChurch Times, 21 June 2019
 
The number of British people who identify themselves as Anglicans is lower than ever before, the latest figures from the British Social Attitudes survey suggest.
ChurchChurch Times, 21st July 2019
 
A new campaign calling for same-sex marriage to be allowed in the C of E has been set up. Equal, the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England, was launched today, the fifth anniversary of the marriage of Canon Jeremy Pemberton and Laurence Cunnington (News, 12 September 2014). In a press release, the campaign said that its aims were: same-sex marriage in the C of E; no discrimination against lay or ordained people in the C of E in same-sex marriages; and that the ‘consciences of everyone should be protected’.
ChurchChurch Times
 
A new campaign calling for same-sex marriage to be allowed in the C of E has been set up. Equal, the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England, was launched today, the fifth anniversary of the marriage of Canon Jeremy Pemberton and Laurence Cunnington (News, 12 September 2014). In a press release, the campaign said that its aims were: same-sex marriage in the C of E; no discrimination against lay or ordained people in the C of E in same-sex marriages; and that the ‘consciences of everyone should be protected’.
ChurchChurch Times 12th April 2019
 
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