Over a thousand people came onto the streets of Norwich today to welcome the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as he began his five-day prayer pilgrimage leading up to his enthronement next Thursday
14 March 2013
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Secretary General of the Anglican Communion have welcomed the appointment of the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
14 March 2013
The Mission to Seafarers global maritime welfare charity is pleased to announce that we have been commissioned to write and deliver a prayer of remembrance and to give a blessing to the future crew, passengers and engineers who will sail on the replica cruise ship Titanic II.
14 March 2013
The new Pope has reportedly said the Church universal needs Anglicans and that the Ordinariate is "quite unnecessary".
14 March 2013
The Rev Dr Jaakko Rusama, a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland and a previous General Secretary of the Finnish Ecumnenical Council, has been elected Lutheran Co-Moderator of the Anglican-Lutheran Society, and his Anglican Co-Moderator is to be the Rt Rev Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Woolwich.
14 March 2013
The Revd Andrew Wright has taken up his new post as Secretary General of The Mission to Seafarers. Revd Wright has joined the Mission from Fishermen’s Mission, where he was chaplain and director of operations.
13 March 2013
he 10th Assembly of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), meeting from 3 to 10 March in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, adopted a series of resolutions on public issues ranging from climate change and resettlement, through seabed mining and nuclear weaponry, to the self-determination of West Papua and Maohi Nui (or Tahiti).
13 March 2013
In a letter to Pakistani churches, the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has condemned the attacks on Christians in Badami Bagh, Lahore, on Saturday, 10 March. More than a hundred houses were burned down following allegations of blasphemy.
13 March 2013
At a time of widespread scandals over clergy sex abuse, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) have called for professional standards of clergy accountability at an international forum on violence against women.
13 March 2013
The Anglican Rector of the Falkland Islands, the Revd Dr Richard Hines, has described how Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley (the southernmost cathedral in the world) will play a special central role, serving parishioners and journalists, as Islanders take an historic vote in this weekend’s Referendum.
11 March 2013