The Most Rev John Davies’ comments came at the beginning Of Christian Aid Week 2018 which this year highlights the plight of the more than 40 million people displaced around the world, but who remain within their own countries.

Archbishop John, who is chair of Christian Aid Cymru, said in a video: “I want to make an appeal to you to recognise that, despite the behaviour of some, the good work goes on, and that good work needs your support, your generous support.”

In February, Oxfam staff members in crisis zones in Haiti were accused of paying for sex among the desperate people the group was meant to serve.

Most Rev John Davies, Archbishop of Wales

“That behaviour sadly disfigures, overshadows and sometimes even hides the ongoing wonderful work which charities like Christian Aid do day in and day out to help vulnerable, underprivileged and poverty-stricken people around the world,” Archbishop John said.

“This Christian Aid Week, if you see an event taking place locally, if an envelope comes through your door asking you to support that work, please be generous.”

In Haiti, thousands of people regularly experience some of the worst natural disasters on earth. 

In November 2016, Hurricane Matthew wreaked yet more havoc, killing 546 people and destroying homes, businesses and infrastructure. Up…

Lord Tebbit, 87, told the Daily Mail: “I find it difficult to accept a sodomite as a member of the clergy who will, for example, be called upon to conduct marriage services. I will struggle to attend if he is officiating.”

The Tory peer has been attending  services at the cathedral for nine years.

He said he learned from a newsletter in March that Canon Joe was going to become the cathedral’s most senior official and is in a civil partnership with Rev Chris Eyden.

He added: “I just don’t see how he can decently read the marriage service. I stand by what is written in the Bible, which is the basis on which the cathedral was built. It says the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by God.

“It cannot be a sin to be born homosexual. It is what one is. What I can’t accept is the activity. I use the expression sodomite.”

While Lord Tebbit disagrees with the cathedral’s decision, he said he will continue his financial donations to the church. 

His comments have been met with backlash with Ivan Massow, the gay former Tory London Mayoral hopeful, calling for him to be expelled from the Tory Party.

Tory MP Crispin Blunt said: “Lord Tebbit may have a disagreeable surprise at how many cathedrals he has self-excluded himself from.”

A spokesman for the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich said: “It has been clear for more than a decade that clergy are…

António Guterres described the attacks, which killed at least eight people in Surabaya on Sunday, as “appalling” and offered condolences to families of the victims.

Police said the explosions were perpetrated by six members of one family – including two girls, aged nine and twelve – who all died. Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

Mr Guterres’ spokesman said in a statement: “He is appalled at reports that children were used to participate in the attacks.”

Congregations at the Santa Maria Roman Catholic Church, the Christian Church of Diponegoro and the Pantekosta Church were targeted in the blast. Forty-one people were injured.

Officers said the family had returned to Indonesia from Syria.

Experts have warned the estimated 1,100 Indonesians who have travelled to Syria to support Islamic State pose a threat if they return home.

Mr Guterres’ spokesman added: “The Secretary-General expresses his condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a swift recovery to those injured.”

In a separate incident, ten people were hurt when suspected militants detonated explosives from a motorcycle at the police headquarters in Surabaya on Monday morning.

Debris are seen at a church where an explosion went off in Surabaya,…

According to the latest financial report from the ChurchCommissioners, the body which manages the Church of England’s assets, figures show a total return on investments in 2017 of 7.1%.

It represents a sharp fall on last year’s 17.1 per cent and below its 9.1 per cent target.

Explaining the failure, the Commissioners said that while buoyant equity markets helped the fund – which booked returns of 15.9 per cent – other areas faced challenges.

“Fixed income markets were more challenged; yield curves flattened as shorter maturity bond yields rose.

“Another important dynamic in 2017 was the recovery in sterling, mainly against the US dollar, following the collapse in 2016.

“This was a headwind for all our US dollar-based strategies and had a material impact on our overall return in the multi-asset strategies, private equity and private credit.”

The pound staged a recovery against the dollar last year after collapsing following the Brexit vote in 2016.

The Church Commissioners distribute returns from the fund into the Church of England, accounting for approximately 15 per cent of the Church’s running costs.

In 2017, non-pension support for the Church by the Commissioners totalled £144 million, up from £108.5 million.

Overall expenditure was at £226.2 million, down from last year due to lower pensions obligations.

First Church Estates Commissioner Loretta…

The Church’s provincial Electoral College selected Melissa Skelton out of three bishops to assume the church’s highest leadership position as the twelfth archbishop of the ecclesiastical province of British Colombia and the Yukon.

Speaking a day after winning the election on Saturday, the former brand manager for Procter & Gamble, Skelton said: “It’s been such a privilege to be able to be elected at this level of leadership within the church with a less-traditional background.

“I love how these two worlds speak to and enrich each other.”

Skelton, who grew up in the US and is the child of civil-rights advocates, will have to adjust to administering a broader flock but said she was excited by the challenge.

“It’s quite diverse geographically in terms of the kinds of people and communities,” she said.

“The diocese (of New West) felt plenty big for me, but now I get to broaden the community beyond that. That part is inspiring.”

She succeeds former archbishop John Privett, who is also the bishop of the diocese of Kootenay and will be formally installed at the provincial synod in September.

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