Thursday 31 May 2012

Ecclesiastical and multi faith institutions in the United Kingdom 1) The position of Monarch as Head of the Church of England In the 1530s King Henry Tudor Junior (VIII) created the Church of England by proclaiming his realm of England as an Empire with him as its spiritual and temporal head so he could remarry and have a male heir. In 1536 he created county and diocese structures within the province of Canterbury for the territory of Wales (legal sessions were based on the English and Welsh marches sessions in Ludlow, with Monmouthshire in the Oxford assizes and Deeside, Flintshire and Wrexham under Chester assizes, province of York, reaffirmed after the rebellion of James Stuart Duke of Monmouth in the reign of William and Mary and Queen Anne). In 1540 he summoned the Irish Lords and was upgraded from overlord of all Ireland to its King. In these three realms monasteries and convents were sold of to the aristocracy and gentry and some were demolished. His sister was married to the Stuart King James of Scotland, their daughter became Queen Mary of Scots so before that occurred there was relative peace between England and Scotland with less reference to the Island Empire proclamation in the reign of Edward 1st which had been toned down by the Anglo- Scottish peace treaty in the Reign of Edward 3rd. Their monasteries were bought by the Calvinist aristocracy of the Scottish Kirk which in the regency and reign of James VI produced their prayer book at Scottish universities using the proceeds. In the reign of Henrys daughter Elizabeth 1st the present Church of England prayer book as recognised by the House of Commons and since the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales the General Synod of the Chuch of England and Anglican Consultative ctte / Archbishops Consultative Ctte of the Anglican Chruch, and an official English language bible was produced as Crown property and published by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1603 James VI acceded to the throne of England, Wales and Ireland as James 1st, King Of Greate Britain, Ireland and France, (defender of the faith) The English language Bible was rededicated as the King James Bible and vested in the Court of St James as the King James Bible. Some of the Scottish and Irish Church became ‘Episcopalian’ accepting structures and parity with the Church of England, and the authority of the Crown as their common Governor. The Calvinist Church in Scotland continued with its own service book and the Royal Family were recognised as ‘honoured guests’ who shared the faith and bible in English with them and funded the translation of these books into both dialects of Gaelic (Scottish, Irish), Shetland Norse, Manx and Channel Island French, as Elizabeth 1st had authorised a Cymraeg / Welsh translation in her, preceding reign. The common publisher is the Trinitarian Bible society. 2) The evolution of dissenting churches As of 2012 there are the following English Language full translations of the Bible: King James Bible and New King James Translation Vulgate (Roman Catholic) translated from Latin into English as the Jerusalem and New Jerusalem Bibles, used by RC, some CofE and Orthodox Churches in the English speaking countries of the world. Revised Standard (Methodist church of Great Britain and Irish Methodist church) New International (Some Methodists, Baptist church of great Britain and Irish Baptist church, Ian Paisleys denomination in Northern Ireland, Evangelical Alliance (Alpha interdenominational congregations of varying denominations) and the successor churches to the Dissenters, Free, Congregational in England, Wales and Scotland (the United Reform Church of Great Britain), created as their congregations fell and to have a better voice in England with parity to their fellow Calvinist / Knox based church the Kirk in Scotland, through the Chruches Together in England, advising the Crown and Lambeth palace at their governing council / synod level, with members of the Royal family as a Patron / advisor in the process of mutual understanding (the mutual covenant). Post WW2 there are churches together in England that apart from sending out and collecting the Christian Aid Week envelopes, also campaign for church missionaries and ecumenical aid (such as care of orphans and building wells and Christian schools in the 3rd / developing world). Since 2003 on the basis of resident churches, a churches together in Wales has also started developing, to aid and advise ‘their man in Lambeth’ Following the collapse of Communism and in response to the horror of arms proliferation and extremist violence, a UK wide interfaith forum has been estabnlished so that UK resident Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Jews (of descent from Commonwealth citizens who fought in the two world wars and settled here) can try and stop it through campaigning. On a practical level since the 2004 Pacific tsunami, in the UK several charities have pooled their linguistic and aid agency expertise to form the DEC (Disaster Emergency Committee) to help offer food and humanitarian aid to famine zones such as Sudan and Ethiopia and evacuate refugees and help them at refugee camps in bordering states according to international law, aiding Un mandated agency, UNICEF.

Monday 16 April 2012

Why the world bank has to be more active
Why the world bank has to be more activeCan NGOs all be accountable to and have holdings at the world bank as 'assets' and thus spread information and fprcasts re plate teutonics, hurricanes and lobby in favour of nuclear disarmament and Global Weapons disarmament through the United Nations Security multilaterally and comprehensively. If Barack Obama were to pledge that I'd claim dual nationality immediately to vote for him. However that could cast h8im a lot of votes unless the coverage on the Daily Show galvinised those younger than him to vote. The leader of the Nations of the free world is i'm afraid to say the leader of only One recognised state at the UN (although it consists of autonomous fifty 'states' Provinces).working title 'global tax planning for 2013/14'No one would want the Yantze and similar sized Indian Rivers (or the Niger delta and the like) being polluted. Thats the danger if their isn't complete global nuclear disarmament and cooperation through the United Nations and IAEA.

Friday 30 September 2011

Spanish (Gibraltar and to a lesser extent the Falklands)

French (Caribean)

Indian subcontinent (Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu) in London