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This article from Bishop Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York Designate, was published in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday 12 May 2020.
The Church of England and Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) to await updated guidance on singing in places of worship after findings of a Government-backed study published.
This week’s Church of England national virtual service was recorded on an iPad in the drawing room of Bishopthorpe Palace.
The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, has welcomed guidance from the Government permitting outdoor singing for places of worship in all tiers in England from 2nd December.
As the latest Government guidance set out steps for reopening of church buildings for individual private prayer, and also for organ practice which is now permitted, the Church of England together with the Royal School of Church Music has encouraged the Government to be proactive in ensuring music-making can resume in church buildings, once it is safe to do so.
The Church will emerge “renewed and changed” from the crisis of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have said.
Archbishop’s to give first online Midnight Mass as parishes register 50,000 services and events on A Church Near You site this month.
St Martin-in-the-Fields church in central London is to broadcast a national online service to mark the start of Advent this weekend as the nation prepares for a Christmas ‘like no other’ amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Following the recent change in the law to extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples, the House of Bishops has agreed a pastoral statement
Special service of lessons and carols with participants from around the world issues challenge to stand up for 'righteousness and justice'.