Solomon Islands rebel leader, Harold Keke, has told an Australian-led intervention force that six missionary hostages from the Anglican Melanesian brothers are dead.
08 August 2003
Focus is on numbers of troops and police, strategies and possible dangers. Friends overseas tell me that the Solomons have been portrayed with great bleakness, full of violence, hostage-taking, anarchy and chaos.
21 July 2003
Bishop Peter Tasker, Bishop of Liverpool in the Diocese of Sydney, issued a statement in the absence of Archbishop Peter Jensen, expressing grave concern of the decision.
17 July 2003
Four Anglicans have been released by Solomon Island's rebel leader, Harold Keke.
08 July 2003
Let me commence by pointing out where I agree wholeheartedly with him. We both affirm "the uniquely normative and authoritative place" of the Scriptures within the Christian tradition.
02 July 2003
The view that the Anglican Communion is about to fall apart, essentially over differences of opinion about how to care pastorally for gay and lesbian people, is reminiscent of that celebrated comment of Mark Twain when he said that reports of his own death were greatly exaggerated.
27 June 2003
News stories that have appeared with suggestions that the Diocese of Sydney is about to commence the practice of lay and diaconal presidency are incorrect.
28 May 2003
The Most Revd Ellison Pogo, Archbishop of the Church of Melanesia, confirmed this morning that six Brothers from the Melanesian Brotherhood are still being held hostage.
11 May 2003
I have heard it said that Jesus was never in a trench and that he never felt hot lead pass by his neck. He never lost a child to war, and he was blissfully unaware of the complex worries of modern life.
16 April 2003
On Wednesday 26 March, approximately 2,000 Primary School, TAFE and University students conducted a "Books Not Bombs" protest in Sydney Square, Australia.
04 April 2003