2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (431+ words) The Bishop of Bath and Wells is encouraging people to come forward with their stories after the Church of England issued a formal apology for its historic forced adoptions. Between 1949 and 1976, about 185,000 children born to unmarried mothers in England and…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (429+ words) The first female bishop to lead the Church of England in Suffolk says hearing about the experiences of women who were forced to put their babies up for adoption because they were not married made her "weep". Between 1949 and 1976, the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (66+ words) The Church of England has issued a formal apology for its role in historical forced adoption practices that affected thousands of unmarried mothers and their children in the decades after World War II... The Church of England has issued a formal…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (270+ words) Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, the first woman to lead the church and the person seen as the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, issued the apology as the church released a report on conditions at the homes from…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (474+ words) The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to close 21 churches on Monday during its annual meeting at First United Methodist Church of Pensacola. “We just pray that while the buildings may be closed, that the ministry will…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1101+ words) The Right Reverend Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who has died aged 89, was Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006 and one of the best-known churchmen of his time. This owed much to the fact that for 54 years he was a regular contributor…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (807+ words) The encounter between Christianity’s two most famous religious figures would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, given the divisions between their two churches over women’s ordination in general and Mullally's appointment in particular. Leo acknowledged that “new problems…...