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Church plants cater for one million new Sydney residents

The area around the edge of the Sydney basin is becoming one of the city’s fastest growing new suburbs, thanks for development by the New South Wales state government.

21 July 2016

Archbishop of West Indies: "We live in Paradise, but it is very fragile"

The Caribbean is a “paradise” but it is “very, very fragile” and under threat from environmental damage, the Archbishop of the West Indies said.

19 July 2016

Growing number of ex-Muslim asylum seekers baptised

An eclectic mix of Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, Bangladeshis and Eritreans seeking asylum in the UK have become members of an Anglican Church in Stoke-on-Trent.

18 July 2016

Caribbean youth discuss Five Marks of Mission

Some 160 young people from across the West Indies will meet in Grenada next week for the third Provincial Youth Gathering.

05 July 2016

Mission, refugees, and peace in the Holy Land addressed by WCC

The next World Mission Conference of the WCC will take place in Arusha, Tanzania, in March 2018, it was announced last week.

01 July 2016

Anglican priest recognised with seafarers' welfare award

A regional director of the Anglican mission agency Mission to Seafarers has received the coveted Dr Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Year Award.

01 July 2016

Anglican mission agency seeks 1,000 new missionaries

Ambitious plans to recruit 1,000 new missionaries to follow in the footsteps of pioneers like William Wilberforce and Samuel Crowther have been unveiled by the Church Mission Society.

01 July 2016

Mission to Seafarers Launches Corporate Partnerships Portfolio

The Anglican mission agency Mission to Seafarers has launched a Corporate Partnerships Portfolio with suggestions for how the maritime industry can deliver on corporate social responsibility. 

14 June 2016

Seafarers debate impact of migration crisis

Issues of refugee migration by sea and its effect on crews caught up in the humanitarian crisis is the focus of a presentation by the Mission to Seafarers today (10 June) in Piraeus, Greece.

10 June 2016

Church of England is mainly "cradle Christians", report suggests

Only two per cent of Anglicans in England and Wales are converts, a new study suggests. Research by Dr Stephen Bullivant, published this week, suggests that in a group of 100 Anglicans, 93 will have been brought up as such, five will have started life in another Christian denomination, and only two would have belonged to no religion.

27 May 2016