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LATEST PAGE UPDATES: MAY 2008
Welcome to our latest updates page - a one-stop look
at what's new online from the Church this month including
our most recent news releases, information about our
work, events, publications and general updates.
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Featured page of the week: Faith
Our faith pages provide a guide to the Church's
beliefs and aims, how we worship and our inter-faith
work with other partner churches.
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Latest updates
Friday 16 May
This week's Update from
the World Mission Council reports
on China following the earthquake in Sichuan.
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Friday 16 May
The latest Starters for Sunday
resources for June are available from the Office
of Worship and Doctrine.
[more]
Thursday 15 May
The latest vacancies within the Church are listed on our Opportunities pages.
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Thursday 15 May
The General Assembly has opened this morning with the Rev David Lunan appointed as
the Moderator. Mr Lunan's biography is available on our Assembly pages.
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Wednesday 14 May
News Releases provided by the Media
Relations Unit:
- Earthquake in China: Kirk calls for prayer
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- General Assembly to hear about significant
anniversaries.
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- Kirk congregations look to work together effectively.
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- C of S looks to 'review and reform'.
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Tuesday 13 May
News Releases provided by the Media
Relations Unit:
- The Kirk must change its image, says Church
Without Walls team.
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- Committee proposes consultation to decide Assembly
future.
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- 'Transform poorer communities' says the Church.
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- Ministries Council to unveil £1.5 million fund
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Tuesday 13 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: CrossReach is one of the
national leaders on dementia care
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Tuesday 13 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Kirk to look at 'more flexible'
patterns of parish Ministry
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Tuesday 13 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Kirk's Pension Trustees deliver
their report to the General Assembly
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Monday 12 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Church continues emphasis on good
governance and communication.
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Monday 12 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Kirk's budget plans unveiled for
local churches.
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Monday 12 May
The Ecumenical Relations
Committee's newsletter for May is now online
with news of the committee's work with other partners
and churches across the world.
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Monday 12 May
Details of the next enquirers' conference is available
from the Ministries Council.
This is the first stage in the process for those who sense
a 'call' to the ministry.
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Monday 12 May
This week's Update from
the World Mission Council
reports on the situation in Burma.
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Monday 12 May
Details of this week's properties for sale are online
from the Law Department.
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Friday 9 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Kirk set to express outright opposition
to death penalty.
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Friday 9 May
This year's Stevenson Prize for excellence in religious
observance in schools will be awarded at the General Assembly.
Details about next year's prize is available from the
Church and Society Council.
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Friday 9 May
The May issue of Priority
Areas eNews is online, featuring the latest
news and events from parishes across the country.
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Friday 9 May
New information sheets on human cloning and embryo research
are available to download on the Church
and Society Council's pages on Society, Religion
and Technology.
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Friday 9 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Initial findings from Safeguarding
Working Group.
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Friday 9 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Online child exploitation is a
serious concern
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Thursday 8 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Kirk issues 'call for help' on
Burma
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Thursday 8 May
The latest Starters for
Sunday resources for June are available online
from the Office of Worship
and Doctrine.
[more]
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Thursday 8 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: New climate change initiatives
on Iona.
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Wednesday 7 May
Annual reports and financial statements for the
General Trustees and unincorporated councils and
committees for the year ending 2007 are available
on our Finance pages.
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Wednesday 7 May
A guide to the fringe events which are happening during
the week of the General Assembly
is available on our Assembly pages, along with
a timetable for the week's business.
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Wednesday 7 May
The latest fundraising totals are online for projects
supported by the Guild.
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Wednesday 7 May
This month's Life and Work includes
a profile of the Moderator-Designate, the Rev David Lunan,
and looks at the campaign to admit women to the Ministry
forty years ago.
[more]
Tuesday 6 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: UK guilty of 'hypocrisy' over Iran,
as Britain breaches nuclear arms treaty while demanding
disarmament from others.
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Tuesday 6 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Kirk set to celebrate 40 years
of women in Ministry as General Assembly asked to re-affirm
equality in the Church.
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Tuesday 6 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: AL Kennedy to be patron for Christian
Aid's 'big book event'
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Monday 5 May
Update from the
World Mission Council
this week reports on the recent consultation with
overseas partners in Dunblane.
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Monday 5 May
The latest news update for May is online from the
Church and Society Council, with details of its
conference in September.
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Monday 5 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Energy and transport: 'change
your lifestyle choices and change the world'
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Friday 2 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: Kirk's concern about Goverment
legislation 'on vulnerable borrowers'.
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Friday 2 May
The Moderator's final engagements before the General
Assembly in May are listed on the Moderator's
diary page.
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Friday 2 May
The results of the recent election of a Member Nominated
Trustee for the Church of Scotland Pension Scheme for
staff is now online from the Pension
Trustees.
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Thursday 1 May
News Release provided by the Media
Relations Unit: 'Radical' Archbishop of York
to attend the National Gathering.
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Thursday 1 May
Saums for singin is a
new range of psalms in Scots available to download from
the Mission and Discipleship Council.
[more]
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