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Sermon from 2009 Annual Service

Delivered by Revd Dr Steven Shakespeare at the 2009 Durham Catedral service
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Sermon from 2008 Annual Service

Sermon delivered by Bishop Michael Nazir Ali at the 2008 Rochester Cathedral service
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Sermon from 2007 Annual Service

Sermon delivered by Brother Samuel at the 2007 St Michael’s Church, Watford service
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Sermon from 2006 Annual Service

Sermon delivered by Rt Revd Dominic Walker at the 2006 St Bartholomews Church, Brighton service
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Sermon from 2005 Annual Service

York Minster - Rt Revd James Jones - Bishop of Liverpool
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Sermon from 2002 Annual Service

“... we find Jesus embracing animals in his conversations about the Kingdom of God.”
Read the full text of the sermon given by Bishop James Jones at the Animal Welfare Service celebrated at Liverpool Cathedral on 5th October 2002.
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2008 AGM Address

Clare Druce’s article avaialble here as a PDF. Download a PDF of Clare Druce of Farm Animal Welfare Network's address.

Farmed Salmon

Throughout the world factory fish farms now produce upwards of 1 million tonnes of fake fish a year.
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Making it Matter

We are sure many of you will have heard this apocryphal story before.
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The Baptism of Jesus

Article by Revd David Sox on his own thoughts surrounding this event.
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Letter from Australia

Olga Parkes - ASWA representative for Australia writes about the Cormo Express incident.
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Chimpanzee Orphans in Africa – The Problem

At the turn of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of chimpanzees could be found in twenty-five African nations. Now they have totally disappeared in four.
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Dead Meat: Why Humans Need Animals

Amersham Millennium Lecture, Tuesday March 11th 2008 by Steven Shakespeare, Anglican Chaplain, Liverpool Hope University
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The Reality of Send-an-Animal Schemes

Since writing about the unsustainability of send-an-animal schemes in the previous Bulletin, the debate has crossed over from the ‘specialist’ press to the mainstream dailies.
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Project Pooch

A project in the USA to help abandoned dogs and youths.
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Early Christians and Vegetarianism

Rt Revd John Austin Baker shares his thoughts on the Essenes & Ebionites.
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Loving our Fellow Creatures

Article by Richard Bauckham with kind permission of  Scripture Union.
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Italy’s Dirty Secret

The 22nd of April every year sees an oxcart race take place in the village of Chieuti, in the province of Foggia, between Bari and Pescara in Italy
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