Many families have been made homeless; The Closures have turned towns and cities into Detention Camps;
07 August 2001
In a few moments, in our Eucharist liturgy we will listen again to those words, which are so central to this service and to our recollection of the presence of God. Jesus said "do this in remembrance of me." Remembrance of me. The one direct and complete, and unequivocal direction that our Lord gave to his friends.
30 July 2001
On Sunday, 22nd July 2001, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Canterbury will install Richard Marsh as a new Residentiary Canon of Canterbury during Evensong.
23 July 2001
The strenuous efforts just embarked upon to secure the fifteen hundred year old musical tradition of Ireland's Premier Church received further encouragement today with the announcement that the Dean of Windsor, Bishop David Conner, has accepted an invitation to become Patron of the Appeal.
18 July 2001
Introducing a House of Lords debate in Parliament this evening (16th July), the Rt. Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, is expected to call on the leaders of Pakistan to stop selling the country out.
18 July 2001
The Rt Revd Ishaq Musa'ad, Bishop of Egypt with North Africa 1974-81 and the first Egyptian Bishop of the Diocese, died on 17 July in Cairo, after a lifetime of dedicated service. Isaq Musa'ad was born in Assiut on 21 January 1911.
18 July 2001
May I begin in China? The story is told that Chou-en-Lai, the cultured and subtle-minded Prime Minister of that country from the 1950's into the 1970's, on being asked what he believed the results of the French Revolution had been, replied (after an immensely long pause for thought) that it was really too soon to be certain. Would that people would show the same reticence about far more recent events...
18 July 2001
Transformation is a theme which runs through the life of Ian Hutchinson Cervantes. Born in Washington of a New Zealand father and a Guatemalan mother, he has lived in a number of countries and has been transformed in some way by each of them.
18 July 2001
Jerusalem 2000, the Archbishop of Canterbury's Millennium Appeal for the beleaguered Church in the Holy Land, has committed much of the money already raised in an initial round of grants. These grants will help the Church in its task of serving the community through the provision of hospitals, schools and other civic amenities.
05 July 2001
One of history's most celebrated Highways is Highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. In 1965, during the days of the civil rights movement, a protest march set off from Selma led by a Baptist Minister, and before they started he led them in prayer.
02 July 2001