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Earth Hour

Earth Hour

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has lent his voice to Earth Hour's global call for action on climate change.

 

17 March 2009

A Statement from Anglican Delegates to the 53rd Session of the UNCSW

A Statement from Anglican Delegates to the 53rd Session of the UNCSW

This year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was focused on the priority theme: the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS

16 March 2009

New materials on the ACO website

New materials on the ACO website

Booklet added to the Holy Land Section of the website and updates for the Anglican Cycle of Prayer.

13 March 2009

Anglican Women Theological Educators meet in Canterbury, England

Anglican Women Theological Educators meet in Canterbury, England

‘It is an injustice to deprive women of the possibility of theological education.’ Meeting at the International Study Centre, Canterbury, England, 23 February – 2 March 2009, as a group of about 35 Anglican women theological educators, we received the challenge that our task was to help ‘change the world’.

03 March 2009

Pastoral Visitors Briefing Seminar

Pastoral Visitors Briefing Seminar

Following the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group to the Archbishop of Canterbury (which was published at the Primates Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, in February 2009) the initial group of Pastoral Visitors called for by the Windsor Continuation Group in their Report and commended by the Primates Meeting in their Communiqué (para 15) met for a briefing session at Virginia Theological Seminary from 25-28 February.

02 March 2009

First Meeting of IAWN Provincial Links and Steering Group

Happy are those who saw and were adorned with your love! For we also shall surely live. Ecclesiasticus 48:11 This reading at Evening Prayer appropriately set the scene for the first meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council’s International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN) held at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York, 22–27 February 2009. This is the first time Provincial Links and the Steering Group have been able to meet since its formation in 1996...

02 March 2009

Cut the carbon this Lent, says Church of England

Cut the carbon this Lent, says Church of England

Advice from a banking boss, the latest eco-technology in a country church, lifestyle pledges in the North East and a cut-carbon-not-chocolate challenge are just some of the ways the Church of England is putting a green stamp on Lent as part of its Shrinking the Footprint campaign.

25 February 2009

Anglican Communion Consultation on Evangelism and Church Growth

Anglican Communion Consultation on Evangelism and Church Growth

As a follow up on the aspirations and desire of the Bishops at the 2008 Lambeth Conference "to develop a worldwide vision and strategy of church planting, growth and mission", taken forward by the Joint Standing Committee of the ACC and the Primates, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, The Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon, invited a diverse group of people from around the Communion...

18 February 2009

Archbishop of Canterbury new Secretary for International Development

Archbishop of Canterbury new Secretary for International Development

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is delighted to appoint the Revd Rachel Carnegie to serve as Secretary for International Development, based at Lambeth Palace

18 February 2009

Archbishop of Canterbury's new Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs

Archbishop of Canterbury's new Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is pleased to appoint the Revd Canon Joanna Udal to serve as the Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs, based at Lambeth Palace

17 February 2009