This morning during the annual meeting of the Advisory Council to the Anglican Observer at the United Nations (ACAOUN) we received the shocking news from Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal in Jerusalem about the aggressive entry into Saint George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, by Israeli Special Polices Forces.
11 November 2004
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams has learned with regret of the death of the Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat.
11 November 2004
The Most Revd Peter Kwong, Primate of Hong Kong, today released the first details of the reception process being adopted by the Reception Reference Group appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in conjunction with the Primates' Standing Committee on the 20 October this year, following the publication of the Windsor Report 2004
05 November 2004
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams, has said that secular states need to be more comfortable with public and outward displays of religious conviction.
02 November 2004
The Bishop of Auckland and Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Rt Revd John Paterson, preached on Sunday 17 October 2004, at Sung Eucharist at St Paul's Cathedral in London on the Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity.
21 October 2004
The Primates' Standing Committee, meeting in London, between 18 and 20 October, 2004, received the Windsor Report at the same time that copies of the report were circulated to the Primates at 9.00am prior to its publication at 12 noon here in London
20 October 2004
The ACC Standing Committee, meeting in London 18 - 20 October 2004, recognises with gratitude the very hard and important work done by the Lambeth Commission on Communion. We call on all members of the Communion to study it with care and to pray for discernment in its reception
20 October 2004
I welcome the sincerity and hard work of those who have prepared 'The Windsor Report 2004'. After an initial reading it is clear to me that the report falls far short of the prescription needed for this current crisis.
20 October 2004
The Commission has worked hard over a whole year to find a way forward for the Anglican Communion. Its membership was drawn from across that Communion reflecting different cultures, theologies and viewpoints but its report is a unanimous one. It was not asked and has not tried to tackle the issue of human sexuality
19 October 2004
This morning I received a copy of the report of the Lambeth Commission on Communion (Eames Commission). The Commission was created by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and chaired by Archbishop Robin Eames of Armagh, the senior Metropolitan in the Anglican Communion
19 October 2004