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Statement from Anglican Delegates to the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

Statement from Anglican Delegates to the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

“The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges” was this year’s priority theme.

15 March 2012

Ecumenical Women's Forum in the Philippines celebrates International Women's Day

Ecumenical Women's Forum in the Philippines celebrates International Women's Day

The Ecumenical Women's Forum (EWF), an association of 11 church women’s organizations in the Philippines, of which Women of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines is an active and founding member, expressed its solidarity with all women in the world in celebrating International Women Day on 8 March in Quezon City. 

14 March 2012

Statement from Anglican Delegates of the 56th Session of the UNCSW

Statement from Anglican Delegates of the 56th Session of the UNCSW

“The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges” was this year’s priority theme.

12 March 2012

Evangelism and Church Growth Initiative Core Group (ECGI) meeting in Kenya 6 - 10 March 2012

The Evangelism and Church Growth Initiative Core Group was invited and welcomed to St Julian’s retreat centre, Limuru, by the Most Rev Dr Eliud Wabukala, Primate of the Anglican Church of Kenya. 

12 March 2012

Roman vespers unite Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury in prayer

Roman vespers unite Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury in prayer

Anglicans and Roman Catholics share a somewhat turbulent history, but differences were brushed aside March 10 when Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Pope Benedict XVI prayed together during an ecumenical vespers service at San Gregorio Magna al Celio in Rome.

12 March 2012

TEAC meets in Sri Lanka

TEAC meets in Sri Lanka

The church’s faithful witness in Sri Lanka amid a rich inter-religious environment and the challenges of post-war reconciliation has fostered new insights for the work of TEAC (theological education in the Anglican Communion). 

12 March 2012

Freedom from Fear: Church in Wales holds conference on domestic violence

Freedom from Fear: Church in Wales holds conference on domestic violence

A young woman who was abused by her husband for four years will describe how she wrestled with Biblical interpretations of marriage, divorce and forgiveness, at an event to mark International Women’s Day.

09 March 2012

Report of the Episcopal Women's Conference, Amman, Jordan, International Women's Day, 8 March 2012

Report of the Episcopal Women's Conference, Amman, Jordan, International Women's Day, 8 March 2012

On the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2012 and in continuity of the Women’s Work in the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East, a one-day conference was held in Amman at the Church of the Redeemer Church Hall.

08 March 2012

Three-way global partnership a model of healing, growth

Three-way global partnership a model of healing, growth

The dioceses of Gloucester in England, El Camino Real in California, and Western Tanganyika in Tanzania formed a three-way companion relationship after the bishops met at the 2008 Lambeth Conference.

07 March 2012

Rural Women Speak Out at CSW

Rural Women Speak Out at CSW

Rural women from around the world met this week to discuss the challenges and highlights of working to empower women in their countries and communities, at an event sponsored by UN Women

06 March 2012