At their recent meeting in Bishop Woodford House, Ely, UK, the Joint Standing Committees of the Primates of the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) have announced the theme for the next international ACC gathering.
29 April 1996
The thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathy of the people of the Anglican Communion throughout the world are with the people of Tasmania as we learn more about the tragic massacre of innocent people by a lone gunman in Port Arthur.
29 April 1996
I am in deep shock upon hearing the news of the killing of innocent people in the Lebanon at a United Nations shelter in this latest surge of terror by Israel. Murder is murder, and the targeting and slaughter of innocent people of any age is contrary to all that we as Anglican Christians hold dear
19 April 1996
Surprises come in all shapes and sizes. There can be unpleasant surprises like finding that in your absence from the annual parish meeting, you have been unanimously elected to serve on another committee. There can be nice surprises when you learn that the committee is scheduled to meet on 31 February.
07 April 1996
Latvian Lutherans have postponed signing the Porvoo Declaration because of unhappiness with the Thirty-Nine Articles. They voted to put off a decision on signing the Porvoo declarations, an intercommunion agreement between the Anglican Churches in the British Isles and Baltic and Nordic Lutheran Churches.
04 March 1996
Churches Together in England, Action of Churches Together in Scotland and Churches Together in Wales (CYTUN) and the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland backed an Irish Council of Churches a postcard initiative against the return of violence that appeared to be signalled by the bomb explosion in the Isle of Dogs in February.
04 March 1996
The new Anglican Province of South East Asia was inaugurated on Friday 2 February in Singapore. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd George Carey, installed the Most Revd Moses Tay as the first Archbishop of the new province which brings together the dioceses of Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia.
04 March 1996
New Episcopal Appointments from around the World
04 March 1996
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr George Carey, visited Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina the week before Christmas as "a vivid demonstration of the concern and commitment of Anglicans world-wide for this country as it sets out on the road to peace and reconstruction
03 February 1996
New Episcopal Appointements from around the world
03 February 1996