As we mark World Aids Day 2015, the World Council of Churches-Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA) welcomes a licence agreement between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) for Daclatasvir, an important direct acting antiviral that is proven to help cure multiple genotypes of the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
01 December 2015
Adventword – the online global advent social media photo initiative being run by the Society of St John the Evangelist (SSJE) and the Anglican Communion Office is underway, with Anglicans around the world posting images on Twitter and Instagram in response to themes suggested by the Society.
30 November 2015
If you wish to see something launched with style, fervour and commitment then you could do no better than have been in Lusaka Cathedral yesterday (29 November) when the Province of Central Africa launched the preparations for the 16th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-16), which will take place in Lusaka next April.
30 November 2015
On the eve of the Paris climate change talks, Archbishop Dr Winston Halapua – the Tongan-born, Fijian-based Bishop of Polynesia – has pleaded for the negotiators to act, not just on behalf of the peoples of the Pacific but on behalf of all generations to come.
27 November 2015
Love for our neighbour: God’s people and God’s planet - A statement by the House of Bishops representing Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa, the Dioceses in New Zealand, and the Diocese of Polynesia, in anticipation of the COP 21 Climate negotiations in Paris, December 2015.
27 November 2015
Some of the oldest records in Australia – parish registers from Sydney’s early colonial churches – are to be digitised under an agreement between the Diocese of Sydney and the family history website ancestry.com.
27 November 2015
Diocesan clergy and staff gave sizzling support to the White Ribbon Day campaign to end violence against women, with a bbq-rally in Christchurch, New Zealand, yesterday.
26 November 2015
Anglicans and other Christians around the world will be praying for the peace of Jerusalem this weekend, using a special litany for peace in the Holy Land.
26 November 2015
A joint statement from the Anglican Communion, Church of Sweden, Finn Church Aid, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Lutheran World Federation, Mission 21, World Communion of Reformed Churches, World Council of Churches, and World Young Christian Women’s Association (YWCA)
25 November 2015
The inaugural Distinguished Fellowship award by the Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion network (CUAC) has been awarded to the Revd Dr Jeremy Law, Dean of Chapel and Chaplain of Canterbury Christ Church University, in Kent, England.
24 November 2015