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
Many of you will recall that some eighteen months ago a number of British soldiers got seriously lost in the mountainous jungle of Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. The investigation into that incident did not reflect well on the soldiers involved, and there were several who might have been grateful for the Word of the Lord quoted in Isaiah "And your ears shall hear a word behind you saying: `This is the way, walk in it' when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left".
31 January 1996
Today is a special day in the Anglican Communion for today is Anglican Communion Sunday. Today Anglicans from around the world will be praying for the ministry of our Communion.
22 January 1996
I have always found the Christmas story to be unfailingly topical. Whether one thinks of the problems facing refugees, or the homeless, or the wider issues of the search for hope and meaning, there is something in the message of Christmas that speaks to them all.
22 December 1995