Retired Church of England bishop BACKS demands for compulsory worship to be ...
Retired Church of England bishop BACKS demands for compulsory worship to be scrapped in schools because it 'doesn't reflect society in which we now live'
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A retired Church of England bishop yesterday backed demands for compulsory worship to be scrapped in schools.
The Right Reverend Lord Harries of Pentregarth, a former Bishop of Oxford, supported a new law that would remove the requirement for non-religious state schools to provide daily mandatory collective worship and introduce ‘inclusive assemblies’ instead.
During the second reading in the Lords of the Education (Assemblies) Bill, which does not apply to faith schools, Lord Harries – Bishop of Oxford
