The body responsible for promoting the deepening of communion between the churches of the Anglican Communion and its ecumenical partners has welcomed next month’s Primates Meeting in Canterbury, describing it as“an opportunity for a new, redeemed conversation within the Communion.”
14 December 2015
The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order met at Elmina, Ghana, from 2 to 9 December 2015.
14 December 2015
Anglican bishops have welcomed this weekend’s international agreement at the climate change talks in Paris. Negotiators from around 200 countries have reached agreement on a far-reaching package of measures, which has been dubbed “the end of the fossil fuel era.”
14 December 2015
Negotiations at the UN-led Climate Change talks in Paris (COP21) will continue up to and beyond the wire, with a final agreement not expected until tomorrow – the day after the talks were due to come to an end.
11 December 2015
Terrorism results from the misuse of religious texts taken out of context; and sound teaching is needed to combat its aggressive ideology, Anglican and Islamic leaders agreed this week during a meeting Cairo.
11 December 2015
A military chaplain who became Australia’s most highly decorated padre during World War I, is to be honoured tomorrow (Friday) at a special commemoration service led by the Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier.
10 December 2015
The Anglican Communion is seeking a new director of communications who will be tasked with unearthing and publishing stories of Christians in action, promoting communication between member churches, and providing a communications service to the Instruments of Communion.
08 December 2015
A young Anglican from Central Africa has said that the Anglican Consultative Council-16 (ACC-16) which will be held in Lusaka, Zambia in April next year, “is a unique opportunity for young people to fully express themselves and shine.”
08 December 2015
The Anglican Church of Australia is calling for an end to children being kept in refugee detention centres by Christmas. In a statement, the chair of the Province’s Refugee and Asylum Seeker Working Group, Bishop Philip Huggins, urged Christians to “tap into the goodwill in our community, especially as Christmas approaches” by sponsoring child refugees.
04 December 2015
The Anglican mission agency Mothers’ Union (MU) is taking part in the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence by campaigning for “one in three to zero” – for the number of women globally experiencing gender-based violence to drop from one in three to zero.
04 December 2015