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The latest news and features from the Diocese of Oxford. To contact the press office, please call 01865 208 277 (out of hours 07880 716761) or email communications@oxford.anglican.org.
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Avoiding the spookiness. With Halloween fast approaching the hunt for Christian alternatives begins! So how are churches helping people who want to have fun while avoiding the season of spookiness? Charlotte Tyler compiled this list of church events across our Diocese.
Firefighters use St Mary's for rescue drills. FIREFIGHTERS are honing their rescue skills by practising drills rescuing a 'casualty' from the ancient tower at St Mary's Church, Aylesbury.
We mourn with A Rocha, family and friends. We are deeply shocked by the news from South Africa of a terrible accident involving four British Christians.
Hundreds join the first St Frideswide Pilgrimage. The rain from earlier in the week cleared and the sun shone as more than 400 people headed to Oxford's Christ Church Cathedral for the inaugural St Frideswide Pilgrimage on Saturday (October 19).
The Bishop of Dorchester, the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, has announced he will retire next year.
The Diocese of Oxford welcomed 13 new Licensed Lay Ministers in a special service at Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday.
Help mothers to escape poverty with Christian Aid's Christmas appeal. Christian Aid is urging the churchgoers in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to give generously to its Christmas Appeal , so women - particularly mothers - around the world can live full lives free from poverty, oppression and discrimination.
The former education Secretary Baroness Estelle Morris encouraged Church school governors at a special Diocesan event.
Hark the Barton angels. On Thursday morning residents of Barton and Sandhills will woke up to find over 500 knitted and wooden angels visited the neighbourhood.
Goring CE Primary School takes part in the Contemplative Toolkit pilot.