City traffic was brought to a standstill in Panama City today, 13 October, when 2,500 members of the local Anglican Church joined delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in a kilometre long procession through the streets to the Gimnasio Nuevo sports hall.
13 October 1996
What a great joy it is for me finally to stand before you after being in office for almost two years. What a great privilege it is to meet the appointed members of the Anglican Consultative Council from around the Anglican Communion. I have been waiting a long time for this day and I am thrilled it has finally come.
12 October 1996
You shall not make for yourself any other idol, for God is spirit, the spirit and the ground of all beings, which is love. The creation is an expression of his great spirit of love. We live in a world of love. Therefore you shall not dishonour the name of the Lord your God. God is the ground of our being. Our beings are grounded in love. God is love and love is God.
10 October 1996
Episcopal Appointements from around the Communion.
07 October 1996
The World Council of Churches will not join in an "unholy competition" with other Church bodies to mark the new millennium, the WCC's General Secretary, Konrad Raiser, said at a press conference in September.
07 October 1996
The Tenth Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) will take place in Panama beginning October 10 and running through to October 20. The meeting theme is Witnessing as Anglicans in the Third Millennium.
01 October 1996
As President of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon George L Carey, will call together Anglicans from around the world, laity and clergy, people from all walks of life, to discuss the work, worship and witness of the Anglican Communion around the world.
25 September 1996
May I begin by thanking all those who have made our visit here over the past few days such an enriching one. Travelling around the diocese has opened my eyes still further to the beauty of the Norfolk countryside, its towns, villages and churches - to say nothing of the warmth of its people.
24 September 1996
Episcopal Appointments from around the Communion.
02 September 1996
May I begin by saying how delighted my wife and I are to be back here at Greenbelt. We were last here some twenty years ago when I led a number of seminars. One particular memory that remains with me from those times is that of wading through the mud to get to the loos.
30 August 1996