The American Bible Society (ABS) is giving $5 million to a project intended to link every church in North America to the World Wide Web.
23 December 1997
Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning has renewed the Episcopal Church's call for the Israeli government to share Jerusalem as the capital of two sovereign states, Israel and Palestine.
23 December 1997
A bomb thrown into the property of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I seriously injured an Orthodox deacon and damaged a portion of the Cathedral of St George in Istanbul, Turkey, in early December.
23 December 1997
The Washington National (Anglican) Cathedral has filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers and its parent company, Time-Warner, for "illicit use" of a cathedral sculpture in the film, "The Devil's Advocate".
22 December 1997
The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief recently issued $50,000 in emergency grants in response to civil unrest and natural disaster in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Spain.
22 December 1997
Recent diplomatic overtures by the United States that would increase the flow of humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people are welcome indeed. I have been deeply pained to see the suffering and death among the innocent of Iraq since the implementation of sanctions seven years ago. I have repeatedly called for the provision of humanitarian aid. It was an enormous relief to see an agreement last year which now allows the sale of a limited amount of Iraqi oil for humanitarian purposes. Any willingness by the United States to increase such aid is to be encouraged. But the current proposal probably does not go far enough.
25 November 1997
Almost 400 years after King James I asked the Church of England to propagate Christianity in the New World, Native Americans and descendants of English colonists have signed a new covenant of faith and reconciliation to heal four centuries of misunderstanding and mistrust.
07 November 1997
Canada's Anglican bishops, meeting this week approved the following statement which updates their 1979 guidelines dealing with the ordination of homosexual persons and pastoral relationship with the homosexual community.
31 October 1997
A group of prominent Church leaders in the United States has called upon President Bill Clinton to honour the 1977 Panama Canal Treaties and totally withdraw U.S. military forces from Panama by the end of 1999. The letter also reminded President Clinton that the U.S. Government bears responsibility to clean up toxic wastes left behind at firing ranges and military installations in the country. And it urged President Clinton not to use plans for a regional drug centre to mask activities that would include training Latin American military officials in techniques of repression.
31 October 1997
A $25,000 emergency grant has been sent to Bishop Jose Saucedo Mendoza in the Diocese of Cuernavaca to help with emergency efforts in the areas near Guerrero and Alcopulco, Mexico, following the destructive floods and mud slides caused by Hurricane Paula in early October.
31 October 1997