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Clergyman at church near Oxford is put on furlough for three months after Church of England warned it may have to cut staff as it faces cash crisis amid fears a FIFTH of worshippers may never return after pandemic Hugh Barne cannot continue ministry at St Mary’s Church until after April 30 Mr Barne will … Read more
Clergyman at church near Oxford is put on furlough for three months after Church of England warned it may have to cut staff as it faces cash crisis amid fears a FIFTH of worshippers may never return after pandemic Hugh Barne cannot continue ministry at St Mary’s Church until after April 30 Mr Barne will … Read more
Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan team up and deliver bluesy performance of National Anthem at Super Bowl LV By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 03:08 GMT, 8 February 2021 | Updated: 03:08 GMT, 8 February 2021 For the first time in 15-years, the National Anthem before the Super Bowl was a collaborative effort. Country star … Read more
A mother-of-two has revealed how she’s spending seven days a week renovating the eight-bedroom former Methodist Church she bought in a hurry after just one viewing. Emily Barratt, 36, from Manchester, and her husband paid £470,000 for the property, and spends five hours every weekday renovating her house while homeschooling her children, working on the house … Read more
The Church of England faces a financial crunch after seeing donations fall by 20 per cent during the pandemic with 5,000 of its 12,000 parishes now loss-making. Senior clergy also believe up to fifth of regular worshippers may never return once the crisis is over – and the number of paid priests could be cut … Read more
Estate agents are not easily given to understatement. And so it proves as Toby Downes, a 30-something Savills negotiator charged with selling a church conversion in London’s affluent Chelsea, says: ‘We’re looking for a visionary buyer, frankly.’ Yes, indeed. And this particular visionary will need to come up with £19.5million — plus a further £2million … Read more
Church of England warns it may cut number of paid clergy by up to 20% amid fears a FIFTH of worshippers may never return after pandemic Leaked internal document warned most dioceses intend to ‘prune’ their numbers Financial subsidies given to 5,000 loss-making parishes also called into question It comes after new Archbishop of York … Read more
Historian Tom Holland has joined the rector of London’s oldest parish church in calling for financial help from both sides of the Atlantic to fix the roof in part of the building where Benjamin Franklin once worked. The beams holding up the roof of the Lady Chapel at the 12th-Century St Bartholomew The Great church … Read more
The clapboard walls have been painted white and the door is a bright, lacquered red. Sitting on the edge of town, surrounded by virgin snow, Murdock, Minnesota’s Old Lutheran Church is candy-box perfect. But it is not at all as it seems in this small Midwestern town, because the church in its midst is a … Read more
President Joe Biden attended Mass for the first time since taking office, worshipping Sunday at the church he frequented when he was vice president. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, picked Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, a few miles from the White House. It’s where the nation’s only other Catholic president, John … Read more