Anglicans and Lutherans in Canada are deepening their links and may be in full communion by the year 2001.
09 June 1998
The Revd Miguel Tamayo Saldivar has been inducted as the new Anglican Bishop of Uruguay yesterday in the Holy Trinity Metropolitan Cathedral in Montevideo.
09 June 1998
Bolstered by a strong show of support from their Anglican Communion family, lay and clergy deputies from five countries assembled April 17-19 in San Jose, Costa Rica, officially created a new province
11 May 1998
(Anglican Church of Canada) The Anglican bishops of Alberta have sent the following letter to the provincial Premier:
17 April 1998
(ENS) I welcome the draft proposal "Called to Common Mission, A Lutheran Proposal for a Revision of the Concordat of Agreement," released by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The original Concordat of Agreement was passed overwhelmingly in the summer of 1997 by the Episcopal Church's General Convention and then narrowly defeated by the Churchwide Assembly of the ELCA. The Assembly determined that the Concordat should be revised and the revision presented to them for approval in the summer of 1999.
17 April 1998
(ENS) The occasion of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr (4th April) provides all of us with an opportunity to pause and reflect on the current status of race relations in America and in our churches. While we offer thanksgivings for the contribution of Dr. King's legacy as a non-violent advocate for racial equality, we might best serve his memory with a commitment to continuing in the journey he led so faithfully.
08 April 1998
(ENS) Episcopal Churches appear to have escaped major damage from El Niño's lashing storms along the West Coast of the United States and in Latin America. But thousands of dollars in aid are being funnelled through church agencies to assist victims of this winter's vicious storms.
01 April 1998
(ENS) In the lush surroundings of Cocoyoc, a 16th century sugar plantation-turned-hotel, a diverse group of bishops and church leaders from New York to California spent three days in February, immersed in Hispanic history and culture, discussing "Anglicanism and the Hispanic Experience
01 April 1998
(ENS)John Maury Allin, the 23rd Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1973-1985, died 6 March, 1998, after suffering a stroke while undergoing treatment for cancer. He was 76.
19 March 1998
(ENS) The Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA) and the Episcopal Church have appointed teams to explore avenues for better understanding in the wake of last summer's failure to approve a Concordat of Agreement establishing full communion.
23 February 1998