Chaired jointly by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Baroness Chalker, the meeting reviewed the experience of debtor countries and the responses so far of the international community to their plight, especially in the case of those countries most affected by enduring poverty.
28 July 1998
An escalating rift between conservative African bishops and Bishop John Spong of the Diocese of Newark (USA) appears headed for a truce.
28 July 1998
Statement from the Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, after a meeting at Lambeth Palace on Tuesday, 28th July 1998 with representatives from the OECD countries.
27 July 1998
The use of violence to enforce religious beliefs was denounced by Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey in an address to the Spouses' Programme at the Lambeth Conference, Monday, July 27.
27 July 1998
"Maravillosa!" said Bishop Julio Holquin Khoury of the Dominican Republic as he sat, catching his breath at Canterbury Cathedral Sunday night.
27 July 1998
Lambeth bishops got a quick lesson in the strong feelings on either side of the international debt debate, Friday, when World Bank President James Wolfensohn sharply criticized a video that opened the conference plenary on debt.
26 July 1998
Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town, primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, put international debt on the center stage of the Lambeth Conference Friday by calling for cancellation of the debt of developing countries.
26 July 1998
The Lambeth plenary on "Muslim-Christian Relations and the Anglican Communion, will not "look at Islam in isolation, but rather in the context of our entire attention to interfaith relations here at the Lambeth Conference," said Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, the plenary coordinator.
25 July 1998
The honorary degree of Doctor in Divinity will be conferred upon Bishop Gondi Theodore Abraham of Nandyal (South India), and Bishop John Chien of the Diocese of Taiwan (USA), by Virginia Theological Seminary during the Anglican Communion's Lambeth Conference in Canterbury.
25 July 1998
It's rare that one gets two introductions that are so diverse. The introduction from the Archbishop of Canterbury was one of warmth and understanding and friendship in a joint endeavour to deal with the issues of poverty.
25 July 1998