Reverend Joe Kinsella, curate at St Peter and St Paul Church, said he believed the issue "could be resolved".

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Sponsored by the specialist church insurers the Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, the meeting at St Paul's Church Hall in Llandudno, is followed by another gathering at the United Reformed Church in Cardiff on 6 September.

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Outside St Paul's church on the Falls Road in Belfast, parishioners spoke of their shock at the news.

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St Paul's Church, Camberley, has asked people to send photos of their animal companions through the social networking site.

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Mr Kirwan's manager, Adrian Ward, said more than one hundred people attended his funeral at St Peter and St Paul's Church in Wolverhampton on Friday.

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As St Paul's - and the wider church - had in recent days appeared like a rudderless ship battered by storms beyond its control - there was silence from Lambeth Palace.

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The Ipsos Mori poll, for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, was rubbished by the Church, with Reverend Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's, saying it was not fair to trump people's "self-identification" as Christians.

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His own windows, at St Cadoc's chapel in Cowbridge in South Wales, or in the Church of Sts Peter and Paul at Great Somerford in Wiltshire, showed a love of blocks of pure colour carefully contained within thick, angular leads, especially glowing blues and rich reds: the medieval way of glass.

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