As reported in the ACNS Digest on 11 August, the Bishop of Bujumbura in Burundi, the Rt Revd Pie Ntukamazina, was abducted along with other Church officials and religious leaders while travelling in convoy outside the country's capital city. The intervention of government forces allowed the party to escape and eventually return to Bujumbura
16 August 2004
The Bishop of Swaziland, the Rt Revd Meshack Mabuza, has expressed great thanks for the visit to his diocese last month of a delegation from the worldwide Anglican Communion
11 August 2004
Reuters new agency is reporting the attempted abduction of the Bishop of Bujumbura, in Burundi, by the Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL).
11 August 2004
The Anglican Church of Kenya has made an appeal to all its Christians and friends to make donations towards alleviating the famine affecting nearly four million people in several parts of the country.
02 August 2004
A 25-member delegation from St Thomas Anglican Cathedral, Portsmouth, UK and the Isle of Wight Deaneries UK recently paid a courtesy call on the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Nana Kwadwo Seiti at his residence in Sunyani, Ghana.
28 July 2004
John the Baptist Cathedral in Rwanda has been completed and officially opened at an event attended by the Archbishop of Rwanda, the Most Revd Emmanuel Kolini, and Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame. Thousands attended the event, including more than a thousand converts.
27 July 2004
The Most Revd Henry Luke Orombi, the Primate of the Church of the Province of Uganda, has called for international pressure on the Lord's Resistance Army to force them into peace talks with the Ugandan government.
20 July 2004
The Primate of the Church of the Province of Uganda, the Most Revd Henry Luke Orombi, has featured in the Ugandan newspaper 'The New Vision'.
16 July 2004
MUKONO, Uganda - Work is almost complete on a maternity and childcare hospital built to serve the Batwa population by the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.
15 July 2004
Eighteen bishops have attended a training course for new bishops organised by the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) in Dar es Salaam Tanzania. The group was led in their work by a former Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Most Revd Douglas Hambidge
15 July 2004