God will be described as a mother in a prayer overwhelming approved by the Church of England General Synod yesterday, as bishops vehemently denied that they were victims of modern feminist fashions.

Supporters of the prayer claimed that God had been described in feminine language from the times of the Old Testament Prophets, in the time of Jesus in the New Testament, and during the Middle Ages.

The prayer will be included in a new book, Common Worship, which will be the first collection of Anglican literature to be put on the Internet and sold as software disks.

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