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1. Pray One For Me for Holy Week 26th Mar 2012 - We have produced some postcards that can be used to give out to people during events you run during the week. They are FREE and I'll post 50 of them to you if you email with your name and postal address, and which church or group will be using them. Continue Reading
2. Life in Abundance: Lent Lectures 15th Mar 2012 - Tuesday 20th March at St Martins House join us for the third of four conversations in Lent exploring faith and contemporary issues in our society. The topic for the evening will be Helath and Bishop Tim, will be joined by Prof David Haslam, President of the British Medical Association Continue Reading
3. Figures show Church marriages up four percent 20th Jan 2012 - Provisional attendance figures for 2010 released – marriages up four per cent, national ‘mapping’ identifies at least 1,000 fresh expressions of church The latest local church attendance figures from the Church of England for 2010 show that approaching 1.7 million people continue to attend Church of England services each month, and around 1.1 million attend one of the Church of England’s 16,000 churches as part of a typical week. Continue Reading
4. Your Torch Relay Needs You! 10th Jan 2012 - Market Harborough to Lubenham. Lubenham to Foxton. On to Kibworth. Continuing through Oadby. An evening celebration in Leicester. Next day on to Quorn, Loughborough, Hoton, Wymeswold. Then to Asfordby, Melton and onwards. With thousands expected to line the route, the torch relay is a huge opportunity for churches to “use the power of the Games to inspire change” (official 2012 vision). As part of the ongoing work of the nine main Christian denominations, a new taskgroup is being launched to meet this wonderful opportunity, but it needs people to be apart of it! To find out how to get involved continue reading. Continue Reading
5. Sing Christmas live from St Martins House 20th Dec 2011 - Sing Christmas on BBC Radio Leicester: the biggest sing yet! Over 100 venues including pubs, village halls, sports clubs and care homes joined in with Sing Christmas as it was broadcast live on BBC Radio Leicester from the reception at St Martins House. Continue Reading
6. 400th anniversary of the King James Bible 16th Nov 2011 - Archbishop Rowan Williams preached today (Wed 16 Nov) at a Thanksgiving Service for the 400th anniversary of the 1611 Authorized (King James) translation of the Bible, attended by Her Majesty The Queen and TRH The Duke of Edinburgh and The Prince of Wales. Continue Reading
7. Stamp it out 24th Oct 2011 - This week the police and local communities are holding a series of events focused around stamp it Out! Challenging verbal abuse bullying and violence. It began on Monday with a short gathering for prayer in the Cathedral attended by faith leaders and representatives from the Police. Both local TV and radio came along to support and publicise the message of the event: Continue Reading
8. Venerable Peter Burrows to be Bishop of Doncaster 6th Oct 2011 - The Ven Peter Burrows, former Rector of Broughton Astley, Parish Development Officer and Director of Ministry for Leicester diocese, will be consecrated as the Bishop of Doncaster next year. Continue Reading

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