This website is best viewed with CSS and JavaScript enabled.

Home > Other News

News Stories


Other News

Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner appears before CEDAW

Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner appears before CEDAW

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, has appeared before the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in New York this week.

21 July 2010

Bishops gather to launch the next phase of Continuing Indaba project

Bishops gather to launch the next phase of Continuing Indaba project

Bishops from dioceses as far apart as Hong Kong, Jamaica and Toronto gathered last week to discuss the next steps of the Anglican Communion’s Continuing Indaba project.

20 July 2010

Chinese wisdom helps guide thinking about Anglican project to strengthen the Communion

Chinese wisdom helps guide thinking about Anglican project to strengthen the Communion

Chinese proverbs offered a Hong Kong-based group some helpful insights into ways Anglicans might best talk and work through their differences.

19 July 2010

Archbishop of Canterbury's statement on the retirement of His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper

Archbishop of Canterbury's statement on the retirement of His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper

Responding to the announcement of the retirement of His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in Rome, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said:

05 July 2010

Two new members to be welcomed onto the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion

Two new members to be welcomed onto the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion

The forthcoming Standing Committee meeting will welcome two new members from Asia and Africa: Bp Paul Sarker (Moderator of the Church of Bangladesh and Bishop of Dhaka) and Revd Canon Janet Trisk of South Africa (Rector of the Parish of St David, Prestbury in Pietermaritzburg, in the Diocese of Natal).

02 July 2010

Canada Youth program equips with experience, not 'how-to's

Canada Youth program equips with experience, not 'how-to's

From 'Ask & Imagine', the Anglican-Lutheran leadership program that has equipped hundreds of youth with hands-on experiences since 1999

 

17 June 2010

Environment in the Spotlight at Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia General Synod

Environment in the Spotlight at Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia General Synod

The environment - and the responsibilities of Christians for its wellbeing - came into sharper focus at May 2010 General Synod

17 June 2010

Canada: Canon 22 establishes self-determining national indigenous ministry

Canada: Canon 22 establishes self-determining national indigenous ministry

In what was described as an “historic moment” the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada on June 9 approved the introduction of a new canon law that firmly establishes a self-determining national indigenous ministry within the church.

15 June 2010

Communique from the Anglican Jewish Commission

The fourth meeting of the Anglican Jewish Commission of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel took place at Lambeth Palace, the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury on 24th and 25th May 2010/ 11th and 12th Sivan 5770.

09 June 2010

Attack on Ahmadi mosques in Pakistan condemned by Bishop of Lahore

Attack on Ahmadi mosques in Pakistan condemned by Bishop of Lahore

The savage attack on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore Pakistan has been condemned by Rt Revd Alexander Malik, Bishop of Lahore in the Church of Pakistan (a United Church which is a member Church of the Anglican Communion).

09 June 2010