The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has written to the Anglican church in Burma following the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in the area of the Irrawaddy River Delta. In the letter to Archbishop Stephen Than Myint Oo, Dr Williams assures the church of the prayers of the Anglican Communion and commends the rescue operation now underway
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has described his private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI yesterday in the Vatican as ‘friendly and informal’. They spent almost half an hour in the Pope’s study discussing matters of common interest.
From April 28 to May 1, 2008, some 90 members of the Church of Melanesia met for a four-day provincial consultation in Honiara, Solomon Islands on "Healing Past Hurts: A way forward for the Church of Melanesia in the ministry of Reconciliation and Peace-building".
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams gave a lecture yesterday at the London School of Economics entitled 'Religious Faith and Human Rights'. Dr Williams sets out a fresh and original vision of how religious tradition – Christianity in particular – can help ground human rights thinking in ways that protect human life from violence, abuse or inequality.
The Rt Revd Dehqani Tafti Hassan Barnaba, Bishop in Iran 1961-1990 and Confessor of the Faith, on 29th April 2008 died peacefully at home in Oakham - England, surrounded by his loving wife and daughters.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a joint statement this morning concerning the deteriorating situation of ordinary people in Zimbabwe calling for “a civil society movement that both gives voice to those who demand an end to the mayhem that grows out of injustice, poverty, exclusion and violence”.
The Archbishop of Canterbury today set out his hopes for this year’s Lambeth Conference in a video message addressed to Bishops and Dioceses across the worldwide communion...“What I would really most like to see in this years Lambeth Conference is the sense that this is essentially a spiritual encounter. A time when people are encountering God as they encounter one another, a time when people will feel that their life of prayer and witness is being deepened and their resources are being stretched.
The plight of the people of Zimbabwe is heart-breaking. Already bruised, broken and crushed by oppression and economic hardship before the elections, they are now even more divided, despondent and, in many cases, hopeless than they were before. At a time of growing global hunger
Amid joyful celebration and colourful ceremony, the Most Revd Daniel Deng Bul was enthroned April 20 as the fourth primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) at All Saints Cathedral in Juba. The four-hour liturgy punctuated with cheers, applause, Dinka calls, and hymns of praise in English and Arabic was attended by bishops, priests and laity from the 24 ECS dioceses
A desperate cry from the hearts of Zimbabwe screams across the world. It calls upon all Christians of every denomination in every nation to focus their prayers, in churches, halls, homes or elsewhere, on Sunday 27th April, 2008 on the critical situation in Zimbabwe, a nation in dire distress and teetering on the brink of human disaster.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will tonight give a lecture in which he acknowledges the rise in interest in spirituality, particularly in the Western World, but underlines the crucial role traditional religious allegiance continues to play in a genuinely plural society.
While worldwide attention is focused on discord and divisions within the Anglican Communion, Anglican women and girls are uniting to make their voices heard on issues of poverty and women’s empowerment, express the power and depth of their faith, and to reveal their connections across cultural and economic differences, by contributing to a new book of women’s prayers.
The Lambeth Conference, will be held in Canterbury, England from 20 July to 4 August, 2008. The application form is now available for those seeking media accreditation. It is our understanding that there will be limited accommodation available through the University of Kent. There will be a professionally maintained press centre on the campus.
The Archbishop of Perth, The Most Reverend Roger Herft, this morning announced the appointment of Australia’s first woman bishop. Archbishop Herft’s full statement on the appointment of Kay Goldsworthy as Australia's first woman Bishop is also available
The latest issue of AWNN is now online. The theme of the current edition digests the recent Joint Standing Committee Meeting of the Primates and the Anglican Consultative Council (JSC), held at the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) in London
In response to reports of violence and threats towards Christians involved in the debate on human sexuality, the Archbishop of Canterbury has given the following statement: “The threats recently made against the leaders of Changing Attitudes are disgraceful.
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Alleluia, Christ is risen. He is risen indeed! Alleluia. May the power that raised Christ from the grave continue to empower and inspire our witness for Him as we daily identify with His death and resurrection in our lives.
In a four-hour liturgy, amidst clouds of incense, sprinkling of baptismal water, anointing, seven processions and a colourful array of copes and mitres, the Most Revd Thabo Cecil Makgoba, 47, was installed as the 12th Archbishop of Cape Town on 30 March
Let us pray: Loving Lord, you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed Son to preach peace to those who are far off and those who are near: grant that people everywhere may seek after you and find you
'The last enemy to be overcome is death' (I Cor 15.26)
Your hair and your nails may keep growing for a while after you die; but nothing else does. Death is when growing stops - the routine ways in which your body repairs itself and grows fresh tissue, and the ways in which the mind and heart stop developing. We know the suffering that is caused when the mind and heart have already apparently stopped responding even before physical death - the agonizing spectacle of vegetative states or dementia.
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