ACC-17, meeting this week in Hong Kong, has decided to change the process of receiving documents from ecumenical dialogues. Instead of the Lambeth Conference being
It was announced earlier this week that Heather Cook, a former suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Maryland, will be released from prison later this
The 17th Anglican Consultative Council, held at St. John’s Cathedral in Hong Kong, opened with Eucharist, celebrated by Archbishop Paul Kwong, with Archbishop of Canterbury
Dr Idowu-Fearon asked directly: “How should we respond to GAFCON?” He spoke of “deliberate ignorance”: “When you see a Primate, when you see a bishop, who knows that this is what it means to be an Anglican Church . . . and he pretends that he doesn’t, that’s very frustrating.”Anglican polity, he said, involved consultation between bishops, clergy, and laity. “But I’m sharing with you that, in a good number of our provinces and dioceses, particularly in the Global South, there are no debates.
Accepting observer status means acknowledging the reality that ACNA isn’t in the Anglican Communion.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has declared that the Anglican Consultative Council cannot debate his decision to exclude from Lambeth Conference the spouses of bishops in non-heterosexual marriages.
The Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church, meeting from April 23-26 in Evanston, Illinois, has decided that much of the so-called Traditional Plan, which
“Our hearts ache for the all those who mourn this week, and as Episcopalians join with countless persons of good will I’m praying for the power of love to overcome the forces of hatred and violence.”
“I am terribly shocked and deeply saddened by the barbarous acts of violence brought on innocent worshippers at Easter Sunday services”, Bishop Dhiloraj said in a statement. “The Church of Ceylon unreservedly condemns these cowardly and cruel acts of terrorism and conveys our deep condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their lives and have been hurt.
It was a week of big stories across the world, of fires and veanl presidents, but here are some of the smaller stories you may have missed.