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C of E urged to tackle aggressive behaviour at local church meetings

General Synod may back code of conduct for council members and lay volunteers to try to stem bullying

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Education will be poorer if religion is banned from schools

Letters: Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article about the prayer row at Michaela community school in London

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‘A long journey’: blessings for same-sex couples expose Church of England divisions

Sunday brings a significant move, but progressives will keep pushing for full equality, as conservatives object to the change

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Catholic and C of E primary schools in England ‘take fewer Send pupils’

LSE research suggests faith-based admissions requirements deter disadvantaged children

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C of E vicar ‘spiritually abused’ parishioners for 20 years, report finds

Rev Michael Hall, who died in 2021, belittled and humiliated members of his Buckinghamshire congregation

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Alexis Jay warns she will quit C of E safeguarding role if there is interference

Former chair of UK child sexual abuse inquiry has been asked to set up independent safeguarding model

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Safeguarding in ‘crisis’ in Church of England, says archbishop of York

Stephen Cottrell tells General Synod ‘mistakes have been made’, while sacked safeguarding board member says ‘we did our job too well’

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‘Like a poll tax’: Church of England should stop charging couples for weddings, say vicars

Call for high fees to be scrapped as church marriages fall by half in England and Wales between 1999 and 2019

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Anglican leader does not have to be ‘white guy from England’, says Justin Welby

Archbishop of Canterbury says he would welcome ‘serious changes’ to church communion ‘that is 90% global south’

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John Sentamu forced to step down from C of E after failing to act on abuse claims

Former archbishop of York found to have failed to act on allegations of child sexual abuse by vicar

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Anglican groups revolt against same-sex blessing plan

Conservative body in Church of England encourages dioceses to protest, and says opposition is growing

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'Innocent days when church was part of life and was embedded in the social fabric'

Educated in a C of E church school 70 years ago, I had the importance of Easter dinned into me. But it seemed natural, anyway - England was a much more religious country then

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Anglicans reject Justin Welby as head of global church amid anger at same-sex blessings

Church leaders of some developing countries say C of E has disqualified itself as ‘mother church’

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Anglicans angry at same-sex blessings question Justin Welby’s ‘fitness to lead’

Group representing churches in global south will meet to consider radical action over C of E decision

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MPs should not influence church on same-sex marriage, says Justin Welby

Archbishop of Canterbury tells members not to be swayed by ‘groups or lobbies or outsiders’ at General Synod

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Parliament’s part in the C of E’s rifts on equality for women and gay people

Letters: Westminster interference over women priests left a legacy that is still felt today, says April Alexander, while Andy Foster says equality for LGBTQ+ people in the church must become law

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Church of England to consider greener alternatives to burial

Water cremation and human composting among methods to be discussed by General Synod this week

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Same-sex marriage row looms over Church of England synod

MPs consider repeal of 1919 act that allows Church of England to govern itself as bishops continue to rule out marriage equality

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Welby ‘would rather see C of E disestablished than split over same-sex marriage’

Archbishop is said to have made comment in response to MPs querying church’s approach

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C of E staff subjected to ‘horrific abuse and bullying’, says safeguarding official

Alexander Kubeyinje makes claims of abuse on staff, including death threats, in paper for General Synod

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Justin Welby ‘joyful’ at C of E switch but will not bless same-sex civil marriages

Archbishop of Canterbury’s position differs from that of archbishop of York, who says he will offer personal blessings

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What’s it like to be gay and a priest? I feel like a second-class citizen in the Church of England

The church made me answer prurient questions in order to be ordained – and if I were to enter a civil marriage, I’d essentially be sacked, says Anglican priest Charlie Bell

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C of E bishops’ compromise on same-sex marriage will not settle painful divisions

Archbishop of Canterbury acknowledges the proposals are likely to displease both conservatives and progressives

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Church of England bishops refuse to back gay marriage

Bishops resist change that would allow clergy to marry same-sex couples but propose civil marriages can be blessed in church

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Mordaunt calls on Church of England to allow same-sex marriages

Commons leader says in letter to local bishop that C of E’s position causes ‘pain and trauma’ to LGBTQ+ people

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