The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, has sent a greeting to the opening of the 9th World Council of Churches Assembly which formally begins in Porto Alegre, Brazil, today (14th February).
14 February 2006
With the soon-to-be released DVD 'Shall We Gather: Anglican Women Together,' Anglican women have taken another step toward making their voices heard loud and clear.The DVD documents the 2005 gathering of the Anglican Communion's delegates to the 49th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
09 February 2006
It is impossible to speak about these things just at present without mentioning the events of the past week. The controversies over free speech versus blasphemy and offence have cast quite a shadow over the prospects of increased trust between different cultures and faiths
09 February 2006
I begin with two extracts from letters by Bonhoeffer, the first from a letter of 1933 to Bishop Bell of Chichester. He wrote, in English
06 February 2006
In the course of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer spent significant time in many very different European contexts - notably in Spain, Britain, Italy and Scandinavia - as well as in the USA.
03 February 2006
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was in no way a theologian who wished to be defined by negations. In his prison letters, he deplores the tendency of religious apologists to concentrate on the weaknesses of the secular world-view
03 February 2006
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has announced the appointment of Tim Livesey as his Secretary for Public Affairs, in succession to Jeremy Harris. Mr Livesey is currently Assistant Director, Strategy and Information at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
02 February 2006
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to visit Germany and Poland next week (31st Jan - 5th Feb 2006) to attend a major ecumenical theological conference and to take part in the celebrations marking the centenary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
31 January 2006
The 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 14-23 February 2006. Its theme is a prayer: 'God, in your grace, transform the world.'
31 January 2006
The Third Anglican - Lutheran International Commission (ALIC) held its first meeting at the Lutheran Uhuru Hostel in Moshi, Tanzania, between 13th and 19th January, 2006, under the chairmanship of the Rt Revd Fred Hiltz, Anglican Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and the Revd Dr Thomas Nyiwe, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon
30 January 2006