LONDON - The 800-year-old tradition of reading the banns - of marriage in parish churches is to be abolished. In a 15-minute debate in General Synod yesterday clergy insisted, that the Church of England must not be seen as "the defender of the quaint" and that banns should be dropped.
Reading marriage banns to be axed
LONDON - The 800-year-old tradition of reading the banns - of marriage in parish churches is to be abolished
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