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The Archbishop of Canterbury heaps praise on the payday lender after an embarrassing funding link with the Church is revealed. |
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Jonathan Bartley, founder and co-director of Ekklesia, a Christian think tank based in London, explained that the Church of England is permitted by it's policies to "invest in payday loans providing it it not more than 25% of their business". |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury tells the BBC he is "embarrassed" and "irritated" that the Church of England invested indirectly in online lender Wonga. |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury tells the BBC he is "embarrassed" and "irritated" that the Church of England invested indirectly in online lender Wonga. |
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Investigations into Spain’s worst rail disaster in more than 40 years – which has left at least 80 people dead and more than 160 injured, many of them seriously – are zeroing in on the driver after officials confirmed that excessive speed caused the train to career off the rails. |
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Investigations into Spain’s worst rail disaster in more than 40 years – which has left at least 80 people dead and more than 160 injured, many of them seriously – are zeroing in on the driver after officials confirmed that excessive speed caused the train to career off the rails. |
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8:19am, Fri 26 Jul 2013 Welby: Wonga 'embarrassment' Welby: Church shouldn't have invested in Wonga Last updated Fri 26 Jul 2013 Talking about the revelation that the church's pension fund had invested in payday lender Wonga, the Most Reverend Justin Welby has said the business is "incredibly complex" and explained of a £5. |
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Pope Francis on Thursday issued his first social manifesto, calling on the rich to wipe out vast inequalities, and later received an ecstatic welcome from up to a million people on Rio's famed Copacabana beach. |
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At least 77 people were killed and 130 injured when a train derailed near the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, in one of Europe’s worst rail disasters. Bodies covered in blankets lay next to the overturned carriages, as smoke billowed from the wreckage after the Wednesday crash. Firemen clambered over the twisted metal. |
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(25th July, 2013) - The newly formed South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) has elected leaders to run the council. |