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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

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

Wife of Henry VIII wrote BCP prayer

A Canadian university professor has discovered that the prayer for the Monarch, contained in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and retained by many provinces, in one form or another, was written by Katherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, and selected for use in the BCP by Queen Elizabeth I.

12 November 2015

Religious leaders join voices in call for global access to palliative care for children

Leading experts in the field of paediatric palliative care from around the world gathered in Rome, Italy, yesterday (Wednesday, 10 November) to meet with leaders of different faiths, human rights advocates and the parents of children who have died or who are facing death, to call for global access to children’s palliative care.

11 November 2015

Anglican Communion Compass Rose Society holds annual meeting in London

Secretary General offers hopeful outlook; Archbishop Welby addresses society; Study trip to Rome scheduled for 2016; Society plans endowment for the work of Anglican Consultative Council

10 November 2015

Communique of the International Reformed-Anglican Dialogue Kochi India 31 October 2015

Communiqué of the International Reformed-Anglican Dialogue, meeting in Kochi, India, 31 October 2015

10 November 2015

Bishop welcomes "significant" global discussion on discrimination, persecution and martyrdom

A global consultation on discrimination, persecution and martyrdom facing Christians in different parts of the world, that took place Albania this week, has been described as “significant” by the Bishop of Woolwich, a member of the Anglican Communion’s Network for Interfaith Concerns (NIFCON) management group.

06 November 2015

Lawyer appointed to chair board of Episcopal Relief and Development

A leading US lawyer, Daniel McNeel Lane Jr (Neel), has been appointed as the new chair of the Board of Directors of the Episcopal Church in America’s development agency, Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD). The agency works with more than three million people in nearly 40 countries worldwide to overcome poverty, hunger and disease. 

05 November 2015

Now is our time to go into the world to share the good news of God and Jesus Christ

The new Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in America, the Most Revd Michael Curry, has used a video message to encourage church members to go into the world, telling them to be “agents and instruments of God’s reconciliation.”

04 November 2015

Archbishop Welby and Patriarch Bartholomew receive agreed theological statement on personhood

An agreed statement between Anglican and Orthodox Churches on the theology of the human person was presented to the leaders of both families of churches at Westminster Abbey, London, last night.

04 November 2015