Bishop Riah High School has launched a campaign for a project that will benefit the community throughout the city of Nazareth. The school has started a library and is appealing for book donations to increase the shelf stock from 3,000 to 40-50,000 books.
22 March 2004
The Church of England, and other UK faith groups represented by the Churches Main Committee, last week welcomed the UK Government budget announcement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme will be expanded to allowed a full Value Added Tax (VAT) refund of 17.5% on all eligible applications for work carried out on listed (protected) church buildings from 1st April 2004 forward.
22 March 2004
A major exhibition featuring works of Glasgow-based artist Peter Howson and six emerging Glasgow artists is to be held in St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow from 22 March - 9 April.
22 March 2004
Statement from the Spanish Episcopal Reformed Church (Anglican Communion) on the terrorist attacks in Madrid on March 11. For the appalling terrorist acts that occurred in Madrid this morning causing a great number of deaths and injuries, we wish to express our strongest disgust.
12 March 2004
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams gave a lecture at the residence of the British Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, on 8 March 2004. His subject was "Belief, Unbelief and Religious Education."
11 March 2004
The Myth of the Celtic Church will be the subject of a four-day Conference held in Durham in the autumn.
09 March 2004
The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, soon to be invested as IX Bishop of New Hampshire, has announced that he has withdrawn from the March 11th debate at the Oxford Union, in Oxford England.
01 March 2004
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and compound in Ramallah, West Bank, came under Israeli attack on Ash Wednesday
01 March 2004
The official Olympic Organising Committee in Greece (ATHOC) has asked the Church of England's Greater Athens Chaplaincy, along with the small Greek Evangelical Church, to be responsible for recruiting, selecting, accrediting, accommodating and supervising a team of 40 Anglican and Protestant chaplains for this year's Olympic games.
01 March 2004
The Most Revd Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of South Africa and visiting professor in Post-Conflict Studies at King's College London, preached at the college on Sunday 22 February and shared a spiritual message that had guided him through troubled times.
01 March 2004