The Bishop of London and London’s mayor joined people to remember the victims of the blaze that killed 72 people.

Following the Bishop of Kensington’s preaching at St Clement’s Church, near Shepherd’s Bush, Bishop Sarah Mullally and Sadiq Khan planted shrubs outside the church in a garden for “healing and peace” that was dedicated to the people who died.

Speaking to Sky, Bishop Sarah explained what the purpose of the garden is.

“It is a place of blessing. It will be a place of healing and of prayer. But also a place in which people can find time and space as they begin to find healing and justice after the devastation of the last year.”

Meanwhile, the government promised to permanently re-house survivors within a year, but dozens of families remain in temporary accommodation.

Housing minister Dominic Raab says the council’s bought over 300 new properties – but apologised for the delay.

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Jayne Ozanne, an influential Church of England evangelical who is gay, has promised to raise the issue at the General Synod next month and ask whether churches are breaching the official guidelines of the House of Bishops.

Speaking to The Sunday Times, she had “learnt of dozens of cases recently” and said she expected a #MeToo” moment for the Church to be stirred up.

Ozanne and six other gay churchgoers shared accounts of their treatment to the newspaper.

One of the Christians in her thirties said she was forced to leave her church in London after being threatened with damnation when her priest suspected she was having a lesbian love affair.

“He told me I had to stop this relationship immediately. I could have the thoughts, but not act. I was a Sunday club leader, a women’s study group leader. I was booted out within three weeks,” the woman who wished to remain anonymous said.

Despite moving to a different evangelical church that is more accepting of gay people, she is still excluded from any leadership role.

“In Britain most people would think this could happen in an extreme Muslim environment,” she said. “They don’t think fundamentalist Christians would behave like that.”

Others shared stories of being allowed to stay in their churches but removed from all positions of responsibility where they served in different departments – including making tea and coffee.

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Senior cleric, Archbishop Leo Cushley, cut the ribbon at the opening of the new Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh Pro-Life Office in Edinburgh, just three days after the Republic of Ireland voted to overturn a ban on the procedure.

Speaking to the Sunday Herald, Archbishop Cushley said the new office would aim to build a “democratic consensus” around “legislative change” in Scotland, where terminations are permitted during the first 24 weeks.

The office – which is the first of its kind in Scotland – is headed up by a “Pro-Life Officer” who will be tasked with co-ordinating a network of volunteers in 103 parishes which make up the archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

Reflecting on the results of the recent referendum in The Republic of Ireland, Archbishop Cushley said: “One of the many lessons of the recent referendum in Ireland is that those of us who seek to promote a culture of life have a distance to go in terms of winning over hearts and minds to the pro-life cause and that, really, is one of the key tasks of our new pro-life office.

“Whether it be in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland or Scotland, legislative change will only follow the building of a democratic consensus around a culture of life, and that will only come if those of us who are pro-life can articulate our case with an intellectual coherence that is coupled to a deep compassion…

Academics at Royal Holloway, University of London, are set to test the theory later this month when the survey around 7,000 Church of England clergy after receiving £5,000 in funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

The experts were prompted to conduct the survey after a previous survey that looked at violence against clergy, published by Royal Holloway in 2000, found that 12 per cent of clergy had been assaulted in the previous two years.

Rev David MacGeogh, the vicar of Glastonbury, told The Sunday Telegraph that a month seldom passes without his receiving verbal abuse.

“People come in before and during the service and rant and rave, saying we are the works of Satan,” he said, adding that there was “no support system” for clergy facing abuse.

The survey, which will be available online this month, will ask clergy whether they have experienced verbal abuse, threats or physical violence in the last two years, and how often their church property is damaged.

They will also be asked whether they have received abuse online and whether they have noticed more violence being carried out against clergy now that almost a third of them are women.

A Church of England spokesman said: “We take the welfare and safety of our clergy very seriously indeed.

“Verbal abuse, threats or assaults are completely unacceptable and we would urge clergy subjected…