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Oceania

Australia: Governments and churches urged to take more asylum seekers

The General Synod has urged the government and opposition to revise immigration policy, particularly offshore detention.

03 July 2014

Confession not all confidential: Anglicans

Anglican ministers told during confession about serious crimes such as child sexual abuse shouldn't be obliged to keep them secret, the church has declared.

03 July 2014

Australia: Synod highlights 'inactivity' on gambling

The 2014 General Synod has chided the Federal Parliament for failing to respond effectively to a four year old report on gambling in Australia.

03 July 2014

Stop denigrating climate change science, Anglican Church tells Abbott Government

The Abbott Government is not interested in the inconvenient truths of climate change, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia heard today

03 July 2014

Threatened by climate change, Kiribati buys land in Fiji from CofE

The Church of England has sold land in Fiji to to the people of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean who are facing displacement because of climate change. 

01 July 2014

Archbishop Freier elected Australia's next Primate

The Archbishop of Melbourne, Philip Freier, has been elected the next Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia.

30 June 2014

Anderson elected NT Bishop

Dr Greg Anderson has been elected the sixth Bishop of the the Northern Territory.

24 June 2014

Pacific Churches heard at C20 summit

Pacific Island Churches bring Climate Change concerns to global civil society summit in Melbourne

23 June 2014

Canterbury course moves Anglican Communion from the head to the heart

New clergy and seminarians from around the world have gathered in Canterbury to learn more about being a global Anglican/Episcopalian.

18 June 2014

Anglicans in the Pacific call to top world leaders for action on climate change

Pacific churches and agencies will highlight climate change at the next meeting of the leaders of the world's top 20 richest nations.

17 June 2014