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Hopkinson, who wrote a report on rural churches earlier this year that called for urgent reforms in some aspects of their administration, says a tiny congregation is not necessarily a cause for gloom: "It's very important to honour the small.

Richardson's appointment to a seven-year term as vice-chancellor is subject to approval by the university's congregation, after which she will take over from Prof Andrew Hamilton at the end of the year.

He addressed congregation after congregation, fuelling a type of public outrage that was entirely new to Uganda.

There is one small ranch store, and every night a congregation forms outside it to share cowboy stories over rum.

The 300-strong congregation of St Mary's includes 29 Catholics with dual British-Argentinian nationality.

After instructing his church congregation on Sunday to pray round the clock for their political faith to prevail, Mr Paisley took his seat at the same table as Sinn Féin yesterday as the parties read out their proposals for a review of the Good Friday agreement.

She added: "The congregation is not the only body whose approach has produced problems.

She said their apology to the hearing this month was "less than wholehearted and rapid", and their "response on the part of the congregation has caused considerable difficulties to the work of the inquiry".

A whole church congregation had photos of me saying my vows at the altar but that wasn't the extraordinary point of my wedding day in my eyes.

Another side of Haiti life today might be observed in the congregation that gathers for morning mass: most of them are foreigners, including western celebrities, committed to aiding an impoverished nation.

But the 50 or so priests, Benedictine monks, nuns and other worshippers who file into Santa Cruz monastery on Saturday were no ordinary congregation.