Tag: Anglican Communion

President of the House of Deputies, Bonnie Anderson has sent a letter to all the Deputies and first Alternates to General Convention 2009. She is

Every Christian in every denomination around the world are being asked to pray for Zimbabwe on Sunday, April 27, 2008. We are asked to pray

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has written to Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables, Primate of the Southern Cone, asking him to cancel a planned, unauthorized visit to Canada.

Newly elected Primate Daniel Deng Bul Yak will be enthroned as the fourth Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan in a ceremony presided

The Bishop of New Hampshire is going to England to launch the publication of his new book In the Eye of the Storm and that he will be taking part in public events surrounding the upcoming Lambeth Conference this summer.

Last week the Church of Nigeria was accused of being involved in some way on a series of assaults upon the leadership of the Changing Attitudes Nigeria organization. While some have questioned whether or not the assaults took place, today the Nigerian Church has responded by deploring any possibility that they might have been connected in any way, calling for an investigation if evidence points their way.

Jenny Te Paa, a member of the Commission which proposed the creation of an Anglican Covenant, speaking at the conference in New York last week, has pointed out the reasons she’s changed her mind and now is concerned about its adoption. One of her concerns is that the Covenant in its present form will seek to protect male power in the Communion and diminish the voice of women.

Following on the popularity of Women’s Uncommon Prayers: Our Lives Revealed, Nurtured, Celebrated, this all-new collection of prayers, with its multicultural global reach, will be organized according to themes of the Millennium Development Goals. Prayers will show the connections between the global concerns of women and girls and their personal lives.

BBC News is reporting that a tragic fire of suspicious origins has swept through the Anglican Buddo Junior School girls’ dormitory in Uganda.

While the nation’s comprehensive peace agreement, signed in 2005, provides for freedom of religion for all Sudanese, in reality there are still obstacles. “We have little freedom,” said Bishop Kondo, whose diocese is home to many southern Sudanese who fled to Khartoum during the civil war.