Catherine Fox All the INSIDE bids farewell Petertide after 16 years ordinations p7 p9 - 18 THE SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2013 No: 6184 www.churchnewspaper.com PRICE £1.35 1,70j US$2.20 CHURCH OF ENGLAND THE ORIGINAL CHURCH NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED IN 1828 NEWSPAPER Middle East visit angers some DESPITE A BUSY schedule that saw him Israel’s Holocaust memorial with his wife, meeting with Christian and other religious Caroline, and their son, Peter. The Arch- leaders and opening a church-run diabetes bishop’s Jewish family fled to the UK over a clinic in Ramallah, Archbishop Justin hundred years ago to escape anti-Semitism Welby was criticised for not visiting in Germany. Nazareth and Bethlehem and the Chris- He described his visit to the museum as tians who live there during his visit to ‘an extraordinary emotional and personal Israel and the occupied territories last moment’. week. Speaking to reporters he emphasised Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known Palestinian ‘his very clear emotions and feeling that politician as well as an Anglican, said the the state of Israel is a legitimate state’ and Archbishop “should have reached out to that it ‘has a right to exist in security and Palestinian Christians. He should meet peace within internationally agreed bound- people and talk to them and see the impact aries’. He added that the same applies to all of the occupation and confiscation of land.” people in the region ‘without exception’. Archbishop Welby began his visit to the Lambeth Palace is understood to be con- Middle East by going to Egypt where he cerned that the controversy over the Arch- met the head of the Coptic Church, His bishop’s failure to visit Nazareth and Holiness Pope Tawadros II as well as other Bethlehem has overshadowed what was Christian and Muslim leaders. Pope considered to be otherwise a very success- Tawadros and the Archbishop expressed ful visit. their delight that the Anglican-Oriental There have been reports that Lambeth Orthodox dialogue is to resume later in the Palace is to appoint a new Director of Com- year. munications to improve relations with the On Wednesday the Archbishop flew to media. It is usual for the local church to be Jordan where he met with the Jordanian other’s humanity, recognising it, and see- respect, like all human beings should consulted before the Archbishop makes an foreign minister. Last November King ing in it the image of God’. have’. overseas visit. It is not known whether the Abdullah visited Lambeth Palace. Travelling to Ramallah, where he dedi- Minister Ziad Bandak, adviser on Chris- Diocese in Jerusalem advised the Arch- The following day the Archbishop flew to cated a diabetes clinic, the Archbishop tian relations to Palestinian President, bishop of the importance of visiting Jerusalem where he prayed at the Western passed through a checkpoint where he Mahmoud Abbas, who attended the clinic Nazareth and Bethlehem. Wall and visited the Church of the Holy spoke to observers from the Ecumenical dedication, said: “We look up to the Arch- Sepulchre. At a reception at St George’s Accompaniment Programme in Palestine bishop of Canterbury to strengthen the Cathedral the Archbishop said it was and Egypt. Later he spoke of the need for local church in Palestine and the Holy essential that Jerusalem remains an ‘open ‘security and peace for the Palestinian peo- Land, and to support the Christian pres- city’ and that Christians, Muslims and Jews ple. It is a need that is shared by all the peo- ence in the land of Christ.” have ‘full access’ to their holy sites. ple of the region’. As well as meeting Christian leaders, The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rt Referring to the checkpoints that Pales- President Shimon Peres and political lead- Rev Suheil Dawani, told the Archbishop he tinians have to pass through to move ers in Israel, the Archbishop also met with was ‘deeply grateful’ for his presence in the between different areas of the West Bank the Chief Rabbinate and other religious city. The Archbishop told Christian leaders and into Israel, the Archbishop spoke of leaders. gathered at St George’s that there was no the ‘frequent indignities that are suffered He was given a tour of the Dome of the other way to peace than ‘finding each by people who deserve only dignity and Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque and visited LETTERS 8 • JAMES CATFORD 19 • COMMENT 19 • CLERGY MOVES 21 • ANGLICAN LIFE 21 •S• UNDAY 23 • PAUL RICHARDSON 24 2 www.churchnewspaper.com Sunday July 7, 2013 News Inside... Durham celebrates Gospel return The original Church newspaper A 1,000-MEMBER choir sang in a special concert in Durham Cathedral on Sunday to wel- come the Lindisfarne gospels back to the North East. It was a day of high emotion as the gospels written by Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne between 698 and 721, returned to Durham University’s Palace Green library, only a few yards from the cathedral and Cuth- bert’s tomb. News . .1-7 The gospels were taken by Your Church . .2 the monks when they were UK News . .1-4 forced to leave Lindisfarne World News . .6,7 because of Viking invaders and after travelling around the Comment North of England found a home Andrew Carey . .6 in Durham, together with Cuth- Whispering Gallery . .6 bert’s body, where they Catherine Fox . .7 remained until the 16th Centu- Ruth Gledhill . .7 ry. Letters . .8 They are now kept in the Other treasures are also on year in seven. There is a long- Durham Cathedral and Leader . .19 British Library but have gone display, including the copy of running campaign to secure the below Lindisfarne James Catford . .19 on display in Durham in a spe- the Gospel of John found by book’s permanent return to the Gospels Community cial exhibition for three months. Cuthbert’s head when his coffin North East. Choir Ordinations . .9-18 The Dean of Durham, the was exhumed. It is the oldest Very Rev Michael Sadgrove, surviving book in Europe with Janey Lee Grace . .20 told Sky News that the return of passages thought to have been Crossword . .20 the gospels was ‘a real Durham read at the saint’s funeral serv- Arts and Media . .22 homecoming’. He described the ice. It was sold last year to the Books and Media . .22 event as ‘hugely significant not British Library for £9 million. only for Durham but for the The Book of the Lindisfarne The Record North East’. Gospels was last seen in Anglican Life . .21 More than 300 Lindisfarne- Durham in 1987 when it was Clergy Moves . .21 related activities are taking displayed to mark the 1,300 Spiritual Director . .23 place throughout the North anniversary of Cuthbert’s Sunday Service . .23 East to coincide with the exhibi- death. It was exhibited in New- Alan Edwards . .23 tion. They range from special castle’s Laing Gallery in 2000 to Paul Richardson . .24 services in Durham Cathedral mark the millennium. People . .24 to performances by internation- In 2009 experts decided that Milestones . .24 al artists. The exhibition runs each page should be displayed Next week’s news . .24 from 1 July-30 September. More no more than once every five than 21,000 tickets have already years and that the book should been sold for the exhibition. be loaned no more than one News from Your Church your diocese Hereford: A Shropshire church is inviting keen photogra- Nottingham Citizens and do business with political and Ateliers Pinton in the Aubusson region of France. The phers to take part in a picture competition all about their business leaders from the City and County. The alliance is result is fitting for the setting of the Cathedral’s High Altar village and church. St John the Baptist church in Middle- made up of churches, trade union branches, mosques, in front of the magnificent 15th Century Screen. The tap- ton Scriven, a village five miles south west of Bridgnorth schools, university departments, local federations and estries will be dedicated by the Dean of Winchester, the off the B4364, is taking part in the Festival of Churches. associations. It is a dues-based organisation committed to Very Rev James Atwell, at this year’s Winchester Festival They are asking anyone with a camera to choose a catego- listening, planning and acting together for the common Evensong. These tapestries, the artist’s first, reflect Ham- ry and take pictures of the village and Parish, local land- good of the city. The Diocese of Southwell and Notting- bling’s response to the energy of the sea. Each panel scape or flora and fauna of Middleton Scriven and enter ham, together with Unison, Unite the Union, the Karimia depicts a long wave as it reaches the shore: the frontal at their competition. Exhibits will be on show during the Fes- Institute, Himmah, Grace Church, St Nic’s, The Christian night and the dorsal at either sunrise or sunset. These pan- tival of Churches on 14-15 September. Organisers are will- Centre, Trent Vineyard Church, and Nottingham Trent els combine to produce a perpetual cycle of light to dark, ing to accept pictures up until 5pm on 13 September. “The University were founding sponsors of the alliance, which day to night, land to water and earth to sea. They take up idea, once we have photos, is that visitors to the exhibition uses the model of broad-based community organising pio- the image of creation in the first chapter of the Book of vote for their favourites, so we are encouraging anyone neered by CitizensUK.