The relationship between Christians and Muslims should now take precedence over dialogues with other faiths, says the Archbishop of Canterbury.
30 May 1997
The Anglican-Orthodox informal talks took place in Istanbul from 9 to 11 May. Anglican representatives were invited to the meeting by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, His All Holiness Bartholomaios 1.
30 May 1997
Member Churches of the World Council of Churches met in Geneva on 6 May to share their plans for celebrating the Millennium. This was the second information sharing meeting organised by the WCC and it drew together representatives of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Anglican Churches. The Revd Canon David Hamid, the Director for Ecumenical Affairs for the Anglican Communion Office, spoke about Anglican initiatives for the Millennium at the meeting.
30 May 1997
The question of international debt has been identified by all the regional pre-Lambeth 1998 meetings as a major concern for the Anglican Communion. An Anglican bishop, who is currently Professor in Applied Theology at Durham University, has just published a book which provides a challenging theological critique of the issue.
09 May 1997
Episcopal appointments from around the Communion.
09 May 1997
To save the land and its people, Episcopal Bishop of Haiti Zach Duracin in 1995 requested the Anglican Church of Canada to assist the diocese in opening a university that would teach agriculture. A visitor coming to Haiti by air first sees the barren brown hills and how mountain streams carry the soil into the valleys and into the Caribbean sea. Less apparent as one lands in Port-au-Prince and yet an inevitable consequence of this, are the large numbers of peasants who gravitate to the slums of the capital where they join the uneducated and unemployed who are already there.
02 May 1997
About 10 men and women from Outrage, an extremist gay and lesbian activist group, scaled the walls of Lambeth Palace on Sunday (April 20) to disrupt a photocall being held in the palace gardens. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd George L. Carey, was escorting dozens of bishops and other church leaders around the grounds at a press photocall for the St Augustine's Seminar, the preparatory meeting for the Lambeth Conference 1998.
21 April 1997
The Lambeth Conference 1998 is scheduled to be the largest ever. The truth about a great production is to link the big picture alongside the drama of everyday life. This has been particularly true of recent Hollywood movies be it the playing out of an invasion from outer space as in Independence Day, the tragedy and sacrifice of war in the English Patient; the greed and profit in modern sport Jerry Mcguire, the capacity to win out against prejudice and disability as in the Australian movie Shine.
20 April 1997
The Middle East, the Holy Land, the home of our faith and still home to more than 10 million Christians, is poised on the brink of an uncertain future. Its people are searching for a future that could be based either upon the hope for justice and loving coexistence or one that will bow to past antagonisms and an endless cycle of violence and discord.
11 April 1997
Churches around the world will be asked to cooperate in an international effort to put an end, from the year 2001, to the 400-year-old split over the date of the most important celebration in the Christian calendar, Easter.
11 April 1997