News Bulletin 9 November 2012

The Charity Commission has refused to grant charitable status to a Plymouth Brethren group in Devon, because its Holy Communion services are for members only — England’s last remaining Roman Catholic adoption agency has lost its latest legal battle to be able to place children with heterosexual couples only — Dorset Police are to investigate their response, after they were alerted to a threatening text from a man who later murdered a vicar and a retired teacher — First Minister Alex Salmond has criticised Stonewall for naming Scotland’s top Roman Catholic, Cardinal Keith O’Brien as its ‘Bigot of the Year’, – but stopped short of cutting Government funding — A Muslim man who wanted his three children to be brought up in his Islamic faith instead of their mother’s Christian beliefs has failed in his court bid — Bishop Justin Welby has been appointed as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury — And a former church minister and army chaplin has just celebrated his 110th birthday.