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Pope to visit Anglican Martyrs Shrine in Uganda

Pope Francis will visit the shrine to the Anglican Martyrs in Namugongo on Saturday during a visit to Uganda and Kenya, before visiting the Roman Catholic shrine where he will celebrate Mass. Some 23 Anglican and 22 Roman Catholic converts to Christianity were brutally executed November 1885 and January 1887 on the orders of King Mwanga II of Buganda. 

25 November 2015

Anglican universities award Distinguished Fellowship to Canterbury chaplain

The inaugural Distinguished Fellowship award by the Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion network (CUAC) has been awarded to the Revd Dr Jeremy Law, Dean of Chapel and Chaplain of Canterbury Christ Church University, in Kent, England.

24 November 2015

Week to go before UN climate talks start

The United Nations climate change conference – Cop21 – begins next week in Paris, and there will be a large Anglican and ecumenical presence at the two-week event to lobby for a fair deal for the world’s poorest people – those most affected by catastrophic changes in the world’s climate.

23 November 2015

WCC Executive Committee works toward a future of peace and justice

Violence in the name of religion echoed in the distance, demanding a response, through last week's meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches as it planned the work of the Council in the coming years. 

23 November 2015

Mission agency highlights companies' role in fight against slavery and trafficking

A leading Anglican mission agency is calling for companies to appoint an individual board member with responsibility for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to ensure that the company – and its suppliers and partners – comply with human rights; particularly in the area of modern slavery and human trafficking.

20 November 2015

Prayers for 2016 Gathering and Meeting of Primates

The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, the Most Revd Josiah Idowu-Fearon, is inviting everyone to pray daily for the Bishops and Archbishops who will be getting together in Canterbury, 11-16 January.

20 November 2015

Theologian documents global scale of gender-based violence against women

A new book by the Anglican theologian Dr Elaine Storkey, which documents her extensive research on gender-based violence against women and the role that the church plays – for good or ill – in the struggle against the global problem, is being launched today in the Speaker’s rooms at the House of Commons in London.

18 November 2015

Climate-justice pilgrims begin 200-mile journey from London to Paris

Around 50 pilgrims have set off from central London this morning at the start of a 200-mile journey to Paris where they will call on world leaders from 190 nations at the UN Climate Change Conference – COP21 – to agree “a fair, ambitious and binding” agreement on tackling climate change.

13 November 2015

History made with first Anglican confirmation service in Moroccan capital

A new Anglican congregation in Rabat has held its first confirmation service in what is believed to be the first such service in the Moroccan capital.

13 November 2015

Deepening communion is goal of Anglican-Reformed dialogue

“Communion” is the theme of the first dialogue in more than 30 years between the Anglican and Reformed communions.

12 November 2015