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Tsunami tears heart of Pasefika

Tsunami tears heart of Pasefika

In terms of numbers, the Anglican Church isn’t a very big player in Samoa.But the scale of the tsunami disaster is such that no-one with any Pacific connections has been left untouched by it – including some leading figures in the Diocese of Polynesia.

02 October 2009

News from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

News from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota opened a new chapter in her colourful life on Sunday afternoon

15 July 2009

Anglican Church of Melanesia elects new Archbishop

Anglican Church of Melanesia elects new Archbishop

The Anglican Church of Melanesia has a new Archbishop. He is the Rt Rev David Vunagi who is currently the Bishop of the Diocese of Temotu in Solomon Islands. Bishop Vunagi was elected  by the Provincial electoral board on the afternoon of March 4th at Tetete Ni Kolivuti; headquarters of the Sisters of the Church east of Honiara.

06 March 2009

Women's World Day of Prayer

Women's World Day of Prayer

On Friday 6 March over 3 million people worldwide will be praying and worshipping together during an annual day of prayer, using a service prepared by Christian Women in Papua New Guinea. 

03 March 2009

New Melanesian Archbishop to be elected in March

New Melanesian Archbishop to be elected in March

New Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Melanesia will be known by next month when the Church Electoral Board sits to make the appointment

23 February 2009

Australia's fire-storm churches need long-term help

Australia's fire-storm churches need long-term help

As the death toll from the cataclysmic fires that continue to sweep rural Victoria, creeps towards 200, Anglicans from the worst affected town are determined to rebuild their devastated church

17 February 2009

Tsunami rehabilitation consignment heads to West

Tsunami rehabilitation consignment heads to West

Five Anglican communities affected by the 2007 April tsunami in the Western province in Solomon Islands this week received latest consignment of supplies from the Anglican Church of Melanesia in Honiara.

12 February 2009

Archbishop Philip Freier to visit fire affected areas

Archbishop Philip Freier to visit fire affected areas

Archbishop Philip Freier will visit today, where possible, some of the areas affected in the weekend’s firestorm.

09 February 2009

Fiji Floods: Situation Report by the United Nations

Fiji Floods: Situation Report by the United Nations

As a result of the flooding, as of this afternoon a total of 8,475 evacuees are residing in 130 evacuation centres, mostly in the Western Division

20 January 2009

Update Fiji's Anglicans count the cost of the floods

Update Fiji's Anglicans count the cost of the floods

The people of Fiji are beginning to count the cost of the severe floods which have laid waste to large swathes of both of the country’s main islands

16 January 2009