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More than two thirds of Church of Scotland Presbyteries have backed the measure allowing the ordination of people in same sex relationships. The final results, released in January, showed that 32 out of 45 Presbyteries voted in favour of the Overture (Act of the General Assembly) which would permit a Kirk Session to allow ministers and deacons who are in a civil partnerships to apply for a vacant charge.
Church	Life And Work - March 2015



The Church of England is facing its sharpest decline as the number of people claiming to belong to it has dropped from 40% in 1983 to 17% in 2015, according to the results of a British Social Attitudes survey.
Church	Christian Concern - 13th June 2015



The Church of England is being asked to debate plans to introduce a ceremony akin to a baptism to mark the new identities of Christians who undergo so called gender transition. The Rev Chris Newlands, the vicar of Lancaster Priory, proposed the motion to the General Synod, after he was approached by a person seeking to be “re-baptised” in his new identity. The motion, which was passed by Blackburn Diocese last month, could be debated at a future General Synod meeting.
Church	Christian Concern - 23rd May 2015



Only 15 per cent of Irish Anglicans attend church on Sundays – and unless the situation improves, ‘we may as well close the doors now’ the leader of the Church of Ireland has said. Speaking at the General Synod in Armagh, after a survey showed that only 58,000 out of the claimed membership of 378,000 actually attend services, Archbishop Richard Clarke said: ‘The statistics present the scale of the missional challenge ahead of us as a Church’.
Church	Bible Society - 15th May 2015



Churches, some dating from the 12th Century are being sold by the Church of England as the number of worshippers continue to fall, it was reported in late February. Nineteen former churches are currently listed for sale, with an estimated value of £3million. The oldest is the 12th century St. Peters’ in Buckinghamshire. The latest figures for 2012 suggest that fewer than 800,000 people worship at Anglican Sunday Services, half the number in the 1960’s.
Church	Evangelicals Now - April 2015



Just over 80 per cent of churches took part in food distribution 2013/14, according to the results of the third biennial National Church and Social Action Survey for the United Kingdom.
Church	Civil Society News - 11th March 2015



A vote on whether to permit clergy in same-sex ‘marriages’ to be appointed in leadership positions has been delayed after deep divisions over the issue were exposed at the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly. At first, delegates approved the change by 213 votes to 205, with more than 300 abstentions. However, following strong opposition a decision was made by 215 votes to 195 to refer the amendment to Scotland’s 46 presbyteries.
Church	Christian Concern - 23rd May 2015



As typical Sunday attendances have halved to 800,000 in the last 40 years, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have warned that membership needs to increase ‘as a matter of urgency’. They also said there could be a dramatic shortage of priests within a decade and a financial crisis, as the organisation has to maintain thousands of historic buildings.
Church	Bible Society - 16th January 2015



A Syriac Orthodox church will be built in Yeşilköy on the outskirts of Istanbul, after the Turkish government gave the go ahead for the first new church in the country for nearly a century.
Church	Bible Society - 9th January 2015



Earlier this week, 40 years of debate and campaigning came to an end as legislation enabling women to become bishops came into force at the Church of England’s General Synod. Archbishop Justin Welby said the church has entered a ‘completely new phase’ of its existence, but said it could take as long as 10 years for the church to achieve an equal balance between men and women in its senior leadership.
Church	Bible Society - 21st November 2014



Bishops have agreed to open talks with the main political parties to relax rules to allow female bishops onto the red benches. The Church’s ruling General Synod is widely expected to give final approval for a historic change in church law, allowing women to become bishops and archbishops, when it gathers in York in July.
Church	Bible Society - 23rd May 2014



The number of young people accepted for training for the Church of England ministry has continued to rise and now represents nearly a quarter of the total. In figures that belie the image of the Church as ageing and declining, statistics collated for 2013 show that people under the age of 30 now account for 23% of all those entering training and that young ordinands are at their highest level for 20 years. In both 2012 and 2013, 113 young people were accepted for training. In the previous eight years an average of 93 were under 30.
Church	Christianity, April 2014



Addressing a service in the Hotel Quinta Real in Monterrey, Mexico, in August, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: ‘The church is coming perilously close to plunging into a ravine of intolerance.’ His comments warned the worldwide Anglican church that they were tottering on the brink of complete discrimination amid bitter disputes between liberals and traditionalists. He said the church had to steer a course between, on one hand, compromising so much that it abandoned its ‘core beliefs’ and, on the other, becoming so intolerant that it fractured completely.
Church	Evangelicals Now, October 2013



Protestant church leaders in Bolivia are trying to revoke a new law that they say aims to ‘impose contrary beliefs’ and ‘denies us the right to be a church’. Asserting that Law 351 is unconstitutional, the National Assembly of Evangelicals of Bolivia (ANDEB) filed suit at the end of August before the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, demanding that it be revoked. Christian leaders argue that its re-registration requirements restrict the ‘rights and religious freedoms of churches’. The law stipulates a standardised administrative structure for all ‘religious organisations’ that church groups must adopt….Churches failing to complete the re-registration within a two-year period would lose their legal right to exist. The ANDEB suit charges that Law 351 aims to ‘control’ churches and ‘impose contrary beliefs’ upon the Christian faith and ‘denies us the right to be a church’.
Church	Evangelicals Now, October 2013



The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Anglican church is moving towards the ‘edge of a precipice’ amid disputes between liberals and traditionalists. Justin Welby said in a speech during a visit to Mexico that the church was in danger of abandoning its core beliefs while also falling into a ‘ravine of intolerance’ in the way it deals with divisive issues such as gay marriage and female bishops.
Church	The Sentinel, 23rd August 2013

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