Due to the generosity of Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon and the people of the Anglican Diocese of Kaduna, Nigeria, the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns (NIFCON) recently (3-7 February) held a regional consultation in Kaduna focusing on the theme of Faith and Citizenship in Christian-Muslim contexts.
09 February 2007
Published by the Strategies for Hope TrustEditors Note: More information, including extracts of the material, can be found on our '
'resources' page.The Strategies for Hope Trust announces the launch of 'Time to Talk: a guide to family life in the age of AIDS'. This is the third title in the 'Called to Care' toolkit of handbooks, designed for use by churches and faith-based organisations.
08 February 2007
"The capacity of the ecumenical movement to respond to the challenges of today's world depends to a large extent on more creative and future-oriented forms of co-operation and networking," said World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia today. Kobia was speaking at the first assembly of ACT Development, a new alliance of churches and related organizations working on development.
07 February 2007
Launching of the Strategic PlanThe second CAPA HIV/AIDS TB & MALARIA Strategic Plan is due to be launched on February 22 2007 at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya by the CAPA Chairman and the Primate of All Nigeria Archbishop Peter Akinola. Those expected at the launch are CAPA Primates, CAPA Bishops, CAPA HIV/AIDS Board Members, CAPA HIV/AIDS Provincial Coordinators. Others invited to the launch are Church Leaders, Government Leaders, Diplomats, NGOs and the media, friends and partners. The launch is to be held at the Pan Afric Hotel between 11.00a.m and 1.00p.m.
07 February 2007
The new Anglican Observer at the United Nations, Mrs Hellen Grace Akwii-Wangusa of Uganda, will be installed during the 11 a.m. Eucharist at the historic New York Episcopal Church, Trinity and St Paul's, Wall Street on Sunday, February 4th 2007.
02 February 2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is calling for a commission of enquiry into the Penal Justice system which, he says is failing both offenders and victims because it can't cope with the primary need to change the behaviour of those convicted.
01 February 2007
In the first week of February about 25 Anglicans will be gathering in Nigeria to explore issues of faith and citizenship in a context where Christians and Muslims are living closely together.
01 February 2007
Every time I am confronted by these issues, I cannot get the words of Jesus out of my mind. The poor you will always have with you.Those words are not some fatalistic doctrine suggesting that there is nothing we can do, they are words that encourage generosity, but they also encourage us to face reality. Poverty is persistent, deeply embedded in human experience and profoundly resistant to all our endeavours to shift it. It is an evil, inhuman experience demanding that every generation faces it, fights it and seeks to overcome it.The full text is available
here01 February 2007
Peacemakers are helping communities resolve differences and recover from violence in Sudan's Darfur region despite a devastating four-year-old war that has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and is continuing to escalate - writes Tim Shenk of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the North American peace church development organisation.
08 January 2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams says that the care he saw being given to a baby in Bethlehem was a shining reminder of the Christmas message - that God's love comes to us as a gift.
25 December 2006