Broad backing for motion to remove outdated document from clergy discernment process.

On Tuesday, the final day of General Synod, members started the day by hearing from the Archbishop in Jerusalem, Hosam Naoum.

Synod calls on Government to improve funding for “desperately needed” palliative care rather than putting vulnerable people at risk through “unworkable and unsafe” legislation to introduce assisted suicide.

Legislation simplifying the way chaplains are licensed, so that they can operate more easily as their units travel around, has approved by Synod.