While the Roman Catholic Church and Rome itself have been busy with massive campaigns of refurbishment of their great shrines, including St Peter's, so too has the Anglican Centre in Rome been totally transformed.
15 February 1999
One of the world's preeminent choral ensembles will tour the U.S. and Canada in 1999, performing in some of the most distinguished venues in major cities and offering a rich, diverse program of choral masterworks spanning the centuries.
01 December 1998
ACNS items 1764 to 1790 on the web site may not follow the numbering of releases sent via Convene - this is because of a problem with postings to the ACNS list server. Hopefully this has now been resolved. Apologies for any inconvenience or confusion caused.
27 November 1998
The newest official Province of the world-wide Anglican Communion, the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, the Hong Kong Anglican Church, will be inaugurated in a colourful liturgy on 25 October 1998.
17 October 1998
The bishops and spouses of Lambeth Conference took a day off from business, Tuesday, to have lunch at Lambeth Palace, tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and a boat ride down the Thames River past the Tower of London and the Millennium Dome.
29 July 1998
The International Commission of the Anglican- Orthodox Theological Dialogue met in Bucharest at the Patriarchate of Romania, 17th - 22nd June 1998, as guests of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Commission is composed of representatives of the Orthodox Churches and the member Churches of the Anglican Communion.
30 June 1998
I am very conscious of the honour done to me by this invitation to address Chatham House and I am grateful to the Council for their encouragement to me to explore this particular topic. The Chairman suggested that this was a rare subject for a Chatham House talk. This was obviously true for the past but I wonder whether this is not a theme whose time has come
26 June 1998
Church leaders in Ireland have welcomed the vote made on 22 May for peace, which endorsed the Good Friday agreement by more than 70 per cent in the North and more than 95 per cent in the Republic
09 June 1998
Vocation and ministry, that is what the Lambeth Conference 1998 is all about. 800 bishops will gather in Canterbury this coming July. The largest group ever assembled for a Lambeth Conference to discuss four areas of our calling as Christians, especially as we consider the call and vocation of bishops in the Church of God as they lead the people of God.
09 June 1998
The Anglican Primate of All Ireland, the Most Revd Dr Robin Eames, has defended his church's neutrality over the Good Friday Agreement. The Agreement, which was signed on Good Friday, sets out a political compromise between the Nationalists and Unionists in Ireland intended to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
22 May 1998