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Reflected in a warning that tensions over a hotel housing #asylumseekers are a “powder keg”, the fears of people in Epping are as much about the presence of outsider agitators as the use of the hotel, the Archdeacon of Chelmsford says #epping #bellhotel churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Tensions over a hotel housing asylum-seekers make it ‘difficult for the community to feel safe’ Archdeacon of Chelmsford says

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 2 h

Check out the latest cartoon from @davewalker 👇 This week: In a crisis churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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Read Cally Hammond's commentary on the readings for 27 July: 6th Sunday after Trinity churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. 27 July, Proper 12: Genesis 18.20-32; Psalm 138; Colossians 2.6-15 (16-19); Luke 11.1-13

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 10 h

Teach children about money to avoid their exploitation, @childrensociety says churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Social media and online games are the main channels through which money-launders make contact with young people

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 11 h

The complexities of people’s lives “do not always fit into neat economic models”, the Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, told the House of Lords on Tuesday, in a debate on proposed changes to Universal Credit churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Complexities of people’s lives ‘do not always fit into neat economic models’ Dr Hartley says

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 11 h

Conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategy needed, Bishop of Bristol tells peers Her final speech in the House of Lords focused on ‘the ethics of international relations’ #defencereview #houseoflords #peacebuilding churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Her final speech in the House of Lords focused on ‘the ethics of international relations’

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 12 h

Instead of a system “focused on vengeance and punishment” — partly the result of media portrayals of #crime — the Government should foster public support for a culture of rehabilitation, the Anglican and Roman Catholic #bishops for #prisons recommend in... churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Prison system should focus on rehabilitation not ‘vengeance and punishment’ it says

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 12 h

Do not shy away from ‘difficult questions’ of eligibility, Bishop warns in debate on welfare Bill churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 13 h

Government to focus efforts for religious freedom on ten countries, special envoy announces churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. ‘FoRB will play its own distinctive part in our foreign policy’ David Smith MP says

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Deteriorating head of St Thomas More should be exhumed and conserved, PCC agrees churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. It was retrieved by More’s daughter, Margaret Roper, after his execution at the Tower of London, and placed in the Roper family’s vault at St Dunstan’s

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 15 h

Son’s dreams are made after priest appeals for Oasis tickets churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. The Revd Huw Thomas says he ‘felt like God was involved’

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Ecumenical report calls for ‘fundamental shift’ in public debate about criminal justice churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 18 h

"Social media has shown them both connection and isolation in equal measure. This combination created something unexpected: a hunger for authenticity, transcendence, and hope." churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Young people are ‘searching for something bigger than themselves in an unstable world’

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James Roberts celebrates Mother Maria Skobtsova, whose feast day falls on 20 July churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. James Roberts celebrates Mother Maria Skobtsova, whose feast day falls on 20 July

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · 23 h

Check out the latest cartoon from @davewalker 👇 This week: In a crisis churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · Jul 23

Charity Commission investigates accounts of York church after ‘serious concerns’ raised churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Previous trustees failed to submit annual accounting information for 2022/2023

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · Jul 22

Gay man accepts settlement after raising complaint about attempted exorcism at Sheffield church churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

ChurchTimes's tweet card. Award follows independent investigation by Barnardo’s

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · Jul 22

Government to focus efforts for religious freedom on ten countries, special envoy announces churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · Jul 22

Deteriorating head of St Thomas More should be exhumed and conserved, PCC agrees churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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Church Times@ChurchTimes · Jul 22

Gay man accepts settlement after raising complaint about attempted exorcism at Sheffield church churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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