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  'Lost' teddy bears highlight lost childhoods in World Vision campaign

  Christian Today staff writer | Thu 15 Nov 2018 11:07 GMT

  The campaign aims to raise awareness of the dangers children face in the world's poorest communities and encourage people to sponsor a child.

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  Ecclesiastical entrepreneur's latest venture: Cathedral branded gin

  Christian Today staff writer | Thu 15 Nov 2018 10:42 GMT

  A North of England cathedral is harking back to medieval times today with the launch of its own brand of gin.

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  Christian advocacy group welcomes Government U-turn on gambling machines

  Staff writer | Thu 15 Nov 2018 3:45 GMT

  The Government has backed down over new limits on gambling machine bets after coming under pressure from MPs.

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  What do the CofE's Statistics for Mission say to the Church?

  Mark Woods | Wed 14 Nov 2018 15:49 GMT

  It would take a quite extraordinary amount of optimism for anyone to feel actually cheerful about what's revealed in the Statistics.

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  Christians are being 'driven from north Nigeria' by Islamist militants

  Christian Today staff writer | Wed 14 Nov 2018 14:56 GMT

  The UK church has been urged to pray for persecuted Christians in Nigeria on Sunday's International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.

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  Leadership (with a small 'l'): The gift the church has to share with the world

  Karen Sturrock | Wed 14 Nov 2018 13:58 GMT

  With a lack of moral leadership in the US together with a lack of political leadership in the UK, the 'sleepwalking' and 'leaderless world' described by Gordon Brown recently doesn't sound so theatrical.

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  UK government urged to offer asylum to Asia Bibi

  Christian Today staff writer | Wed 14 Nov 2018 12:38 GMT

  Pressure is mounting on the UK government to declare it will offer asylum to Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman believed to be in danger after being aquitted of blasphemy charges.

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  Cameroon kidnappers free last hostages taken from Christian school

  Reuters | Wed 14 Nov 2018 11:27 GMT

  Kidnappers freed on Monday the last of about 80 schoolboys taken hostage last week in a raid on a school in west Cameroon.

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  Mixed picture for CofE in latest attendance figures

  Christian Today staff writer | Wed 14 Nov 2018 10:57 GMT

  The report says most key measures of attendance fell by between 10 and 20 per cent from 2007 to 2017.

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  The secret to successful outreach: Just listen

  Steve Morris | Wed 14 Nov 2018 9:42 GMT

  What makes community? How on earth do we build it and sustain it?

• Pence condemns violence against Rohingya in open remarks to Aung San Suu Kyi

  Christian Today staff writer | Wed 14 Nov 2018 9:26 GMT

  'The violence and persecution by military and vigilantes that resulted in driving 700,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh is without excuse.'

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  Opium addict and derelict: The extraordinary life of Francis Thompson, Christian poet

  Christian Today staff writer | Tue 13 Nov 2018 15:37 GMT

  Francis Thompson is remembered for some of the greatest spiritual verse in the English language.