A comprehensive suite of free safeguarding tools and advice will soon be available to the voluntary sector following the award of £570,000 by the National Lottery Community Fund to the Safer Social Sector Partnership.
A group of Quakers has been tasked to revise the book of discipline that has guided Quaker witness, community and worship across the centuries. The revision committee draws on Quakers across a range of occupations, abilities, ages and gender and two of the committee are teenagers.
For the first time in its history, the World Council of Churches has initiated a formal dialogue with Confucians. The dialogue commenced on 27 October in Seoul with an interreligious consultation on Christian-Confucian relations.