(ENI) St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in London has started a competition to find a new hymn to celebrate the new millennium.
30 January 1998
(CT/ACNS) Plans are well underway for a national Christian youth festival in London organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury's youth team. The event will happen in May 1999 and is entitled - The Time of Our Lives. It is hoped that 5,000 young Anglicans from all the dioceses of the Church will take part in a weekend of music, comedy, clubbing and cabaret and worship. Bishops have been encouraged to send 100 young people from each of their dioceses to the even. The climax of the event will be a Eucharist celebrated by the Archbishop in the Wembley Arena.
23 January 1998
I was deeply distressed to hear the news of Father Gregory's death. He was a faithful and committed priest with a transparent love for God and his people. Father Gregory had served the diocese well in Tangier and now for a tragically short time in Milan. He will be missed greatly both in All Saints, Milan and throughout the diocese. We offer prayers for his family, friends and colleagues, his congregation and for himself, thanking God for his ministry and friendship.
23 January 1998
The Rt Revd Alastair Haggart, former Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, died on Sunday 11th January aged 82. The former Primus was a well known figure in international Anglican meetings. He was elected Vice Chairman of ACC from 1981 and served until 1985. In 1988 he underwent a coronary by-pass operation but shortly afterwards took part in the 1988 Lambeth Conference of Bishops where he was Chaplain.
18 January 1998
(CEN) Before Christmas the British Government launched the Mauritius Mandate, a five point plan to help resolve the debt problems of the poorer countries of the world and to enable them to reach a point of sustainable growth. The launch was attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Hume of the Roman Catholic Church.
12 January 1998
(Anglican Journal) The Anglican Church of Canada will join churches around the world in the Call for Jubilee, an international ecumenical initiative to celebrate the millennium.
12 January 1998
(ALC) Eighty thousand Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic young people from all European countries met together to hold a prayer vigil to mark the beginning of the new year.
12 January 1998
Relations between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church have taken a further step with the publication of a Response by the House of Bishops to the Pope's 1995 Encyclical on Christian unity Ut Unum Sint. In the Encyclical, the Pope invited 'church leaders and their theologians' to engage with him 'in a patient and fraternal dialogue' on the ministry of unity which belongs to the Bishop of Rome.
12 January 1998
A senior official of the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom has suggested that planned "formal conversations" on unity between the Church of England and the Methodist Church should be widened to include the URC.
23 December 1997
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd George Carey, will broadcast a Christmas message to 216 supermarket stores throughout England.
22 December 1997