History was made today in Rome at St. Paul's Within-the-Walls Episcopal Church with the ordination to the priesthood of the Rev. Ruth Cecilia Monge Teran de Erazo in a richly textured service conducted in Spanish, English and Italian. Cecilia is, almost certainly, the first woman ever to be ordained priest in the City of Rome.
06 November 1996
A one-and-a-half-tonne mountain of shoes, representing lives and limbs lost by landmines, was built on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, in London in October.
06 November 1996
The Church of England has called on the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, to show a renewed commitment to the peace process in the Middle East.
06 November 1996
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) today passed a resolution which endorses a proposal to help create a new town plan for Bethlehem's Manger Square. Anglicans were asked by the Palestinian National Authority to take part in this restoration of Bethlehem.
19 October 1996
"The next Lambeth Conference will be a defining moment for Anglicanism. It will determine what we are and where we are going," said Archbishop Robin Eames to the representatives at the Anglican Consultative Council. "It will stand or fall on our sense of unity and vision."
15 October 1996
The first women to be ordained priests in the Church in Wales will be so ordered at Epiphanytide with services taking place in all six Welsh cathedrals.
07 October 1996
The Scottish Episcopal Church has launched a new mission and evangelism venture entitled Mission 21. The initiative began a year ago when Archbishop Desmond Tutu invigorated the Scottish Episcopal Church with new energy and commitment.
07 October 1996
The Polish Government has finally granted full rights to the country's first Anglican chaplaincy since World War II. David Williams, the first resident Anglican priest to minister in Poland in 50 years, said that official registration would enable the chaplaincy to "operate freely" in conformity with Polish law. "We are and will remain only a tiny community here, and we have no intention of taking members from other Churches", the British priest said.
07 October 1996
Leaders of Christian Churches in Jerusalem have issued an urgent call for an end to the violence that has caused the death of more than 50 people in two days and has brought Israelis and Palestinians close to the brink of all-out war.
07 October 1996
The Porvoo Declaration, signed at Trondheim, Norway, 1 September, has drawn strong comment from Anglican and Lutheran leaders.
07 October 1996