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31 March 2008 - web link: David Curry: Charter or Sharia for Canadian Anglicans?
Analysis by a minister from Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia. TitusOneNine 31 March 2008
31 March 2008 - web link: Care defends internship programme over lobbying charges
Christian charity Care has defended itself against allegations in a leading newspaper that it has broken Charity Commission guidelines. By Jenna Lyle, Christian Today, 31 March 2008
31 March 2008 - web link: Church of Wales to vote on women bishops
Vote expected this week. By Jennifer Gold, Christian Today, 31 March 2008
31 March 2008 - web link: Muslims outnumber Catholics, Vatican says
[Essentially the same story as The Times but with a headline that makes it more accurate] By Jonathan Petre, Daily Telegraph 31 March 2008
31 March 2008 - web link: Islam overtakes Catholicism as world's largest religion [sic]
The Vatican has announced that numbers of Muslims has overtaken numbers of Catholics, By Richard Owen of The Times in Rome, 31 March 2008
30 March 2008 - web link: Vietnam war rumbles on, Christians branded 'the enemy'
Christians in Vietnam are being targeted as agents of America. They describe torture and near starvation as the authorities threaten to kill them slowly. Christian Today, 30 March 2008
30 March 2008 - web link: Christian mayoral candidate continues campaign against 'mega-mosque'
A rally of 32,000 church-goers at the Dockland's Excel Centre this weekend heard Christian Choice mayoral candidate Alan Craig explain one of his key priorities for London Mayor and the London Assembly. Christian Today, 30 March 2008
30 March 2008 - web link: Leading article: An unsuitable case for charity
Editorial, Independent on Sunday, 30 March 2008
30 March 2008 - web link: Exclusive: right-wing Christian group pays for Commons researchers
As the Prime Minister bows to church pressure on embryology legislation, Jane Merrick and Brian Brady investigate the long parliamentary reach of a pro-life group opposed to the Bill. Independent on Sunday, 30 March 2008
29 March 2008 - web link: TEC move to re-order San Joaquin
Presiding officers answer questions on implications of diocesan dispute. By Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service, 29 March 2008
29 March 2008 - web link: Not Your Father's L'Abri
The Swiss retreat now tends less to philosophical skeptics than to disaffected evangelicals. By Molly Worthen, Christianity Today, 28 March 2008
29 March 2008 - web link: Harare Stations of the Cross held outside the city walls
AT THE last minute, police in Harare withdrew permission given to the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches to hold public Good Friday services and processions. By Pat Ashworth, Church Times, 28 March 2008
29 March 2008 - web link: Evangelicals chide Government for 'sub-standard' treatment of asylum seekers
Churches across the country can vouch for the sub-standard treatment of asylum seekers described in the Independent Asylum Commissions interim report published on Thursday, the Evangelical Alliance has said. Christian Today, 29 March 2008
29 March 2008 - web link: Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says Church is wrong on hybrid embryo Bill
The most senior Roman Catholic scientist in Britain has attacked his Churchs opposition to proposed laws that will allow the creation of human-animal embryos for research. Mark Henderson, Science Editor, Times 29 March 2008
27 March 2008 - web link: Yale Divinity course examines theology in Harry Potter
Most people agree the Harry Potter series has a religious following. But to what extent are the stories a religious allegory? by Elena Garcia, US Correspondent, Christian Today, 27 March 2008
27 March 2008 - web link: Westminster Abbey service to mark 40 years since the death of Martin Luther King
Service to celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr set for Westminster Abbey 4 April. Christian Today, 27 March 2008
27 March 2008 - web link: Act of Settlement to be reviewed
The government is ready to review the terms of the Act of Settlement and end the ban on Roman Catholics ascending the throne. By George Conger, Religious Intelligence 27 March 2008
26 March 2008 - web link: Bishop's death threat after mosque support
THE BISHOP of Oxford received a death threat for backing a proposal to allow the Muslim muezzins call, the Adhan, to be broadcastat the Oxford Central Mosque. By George Conger, Religious Intelligence, 26 March 2008
26 March 2008 - web link: Muslims 'to outnumber traditional churchgoers'
New research shows the number of Muslims worshipping at mosques in England and Wales will outstrip the numbers of Roman Catholics going to church in little more than a decade. By Jonathan Petre, Telegraph 26 March 2008
26 March 2008 - web link: Saudi king calls for interfaith talks
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, which is the home of Islam's most holy shrines and adheres to a hardline Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam, has for the first time announced plans to launch a dialogue between Islam, Christianity and Judaism. By Richard Owen, The Times 26 March 2008
26 March 2008 - web link: Episcopal seminaries adjust to realities
The deans of Episcopal seminaries can no longer function separately as "11 little grocery stores trying to sell the same products to the church," declared Donn Morgan of Berkeley, California, then convener of the Council of Deans. By John Dart, Christian Century, 26 March 2008
26 March 2008 - web link: Uganda, rebels likely to sign deal on April 5
Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army are expected to sign a final peace deal to end one of Africa's longest conflicts on April 5, about a week later than a Kampala deadline, officials said on Wednesday. Reuters, 26 March 2008
25 March 2008 - web link: Heaven Is Not Our Home
The bodily resurrection is the good news of the gospeland thus our social and political mandate. By N. T. Wright 24 March 2008
25 March 2008 - web link: Statement from the Global South Primates Steering Committee
Five Primates - Abp Peter Akinola, Abp Greg Venables, Abp Kolini, Abp Mouneer Anis and Abp John Chew - met together for some heart to heart conversations from 13th to 15th March in London. They released this statement. Global South Website
25 March 2008 - web link: Faith schools under fire from teachers
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is to debate a motion calling for faith schools to be abolished on the basis that they undermine community relations. By Jenna Lyle, Christian Today, 25 March 2008

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