Lutheran Radio News

By Lutheran Radio UK

Paul Hill, The Daily Telegraph's former Foreign Desk Manager and Head of Lutheran Radio UK's newsroom, tells us what happens in and around the Lutheran Church. An acute reading of what makes the news ... more

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November 16, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #275
• One of the oldest paintings of Jesus Christ – dating back 1,500 years – is discovered on wall of an abandoned church in the Israeli desert
• Sunday church service attendance drops by nearly 18% in a decade to leave just 756,000 turning up each week, Church of England reveals
• Church shooting miracle: Preacher survives gunman's attack during service in Brazil after leaping behind altar with 'Jesus' written on it
• Bowing to mob rule: MP accuses Foreign Office of stalling on asylum for Christian mother over fears British diplomats in Pakistan will face attacks by fanatics
• Pope Francis denounces gossip as a form of terrorism as he warns the 'tongue kills like a knife'
• Fury as Nazi memorabilia including SS medals and trousers made by Jews in Auschwitz with £600 price tag are on sale inside former Church of England
• Teenage bell-ringer who was flung 20ft into the air sues church
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17min
November 09, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #274
• Priest shortage means no Sunday Mass in Irish village for first time in 1,500 years
• Death has a sharper sting for the faithful
• Christian woman cleared of blasphemy barred from leaving Pakistan
• Bishop of Aberdeen urges Scots to commemorate the dead in November
• Seven Coptic Christians killed by Isil in Egypt bus attack
• Rotten shark made you queasy? A vomit bag for every guest at the Disgusting Food Museum
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19min
November 02, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #273
• Couples across UK could soon be allowed to marry outdoors
• Man arrested for trying to steal original 1215 Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral
• Church of England rejects heart-shaped gravestone for stillborn baby, as it would 'over-sentimentalise' graveyard
• 'Sloshed' priest who advises the Pope arrested for being found twice over the limit after crashing into pregnant mother on the M25
• Oxford students vote to ban Christian group from college as it would threaten their ‘physical and mental safety’
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15min
October 18, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #272
• The 64th Annual Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England has taken place
• Russian Orthodox Church breaks ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate
• Pope Francis defrocks two bishops caught in Chile's widening Catholic Church sex abuse crisis
• Exiled Abbot of Ampleforth who was cleared over child sex abuse claims launches High Court bid to be reinstated to top post at Britain's leading Catholic public school
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12min
October 11, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #271
• The International Lutheran Council’s 2018 World Conference
• Pupils raised in religious homes more likely to succeed whether or not they go to faith school
• Pope Francis blames the Devil for Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis
• Christian mother could discover in days if she will be the first to be executed under Pakistan's blasphemy laws
• India revokes ban on women at historic temple
• Search is on for Archbishop of York’s successor
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19min
September 13, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #270
• Ancient sunken Roman ruins linking Jesus directly to God found
• Religious Education should be re-branded as 'Religion and Worldviews' to ensure survival, report says
• Church of England halves in fifteen years in ‘unrelenting decline’
• China restricts online coverage of burning incense and praying in religious crackdown
• India: Christian persecution - Violent mob attacks religious retreat
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14min
September 06, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #269
• Archaeologists in Israel uncover tunnels they say could be true location of Wedding at Cana
• Fall in number of emergency baptisms for sick babies
• Government fund launched to help preserve at-risk places of worship
• Scott Morrison turns other cheek after TV comics lampoon Australian PM’s evangelical Christian faith
• Pope faces mounting pressure to quit as ultra-conservative members of the Catholic Church hierarchy continue to accuse him of covering for cardinal in abuse scandal
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19min
August 30, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #268
• Vicar saves flock with tea and empathy
• Church of England launches Instagram guide for parishes as they try to attract younger worshippers
• Christian schoolgirl hostage still held by Boko Haram because she refused to convert to Islam
• Sex abuse victims deserve financial compensation from the Catholic Church, Irish children's minister tells the Pope
• British man caught smuggling cocaine in children's Bible
• Don’t look now, but there’s nudity on at the cathedral
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17min
August 23, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #267
• Mormons don't want you calling them Mormons anymore
• Mourners won’t let the deceased go down without a fight
• Huge disparity in care by funeral companies, report reveals
• Young people hear the call to rejuvenate ageing CofE priesthood
• British Airways employee who won legal battle to wear a crucifix at work launches fresh tribunal claim against airline
• Vicar and female curate are forced to quit after their secret affair is exposed
• English and German governments unite to call for every church in the world to ring its bells to mark the 100th anniversary of the armistice
• Monks should be stripped of control following sex abuse cover up
• Church of England Bishop calls for burka ban
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28min
August 09, 2018 Lutheran Radio News - #266
• Historians uncover incredible mural on the ceiling of a Scottish church after it was hidden under five coats of household paint for 200 years
• Edinburgh church votes to split from the Scottish Episcopal Church in early sign of schism at decision to support gay marriage
• First woman fined in Denmark for wearing full-face veil
• Pope Francis changes Catholic teaching to oppose death penalty in all cases
• Church of England accused of creating wealth 'postcode lottery'
• Turkey threatens to retaliate over US sanctions in escalating dispute between Nato allies
• All religious buildings in China are forced to fly Communist flag as Beijing is accused of ethnic cleansing
• Rare medieval Bible returned to shelf at Canterbury Cathedral
• Warden who fixed roof of church targeted by lead thieves ends up in court for failing to get permission
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24min

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