The first Anglican priest to be ordained in the country made history on two fronts yesterday – she was also among the first women to be ordained in the Arabian Gulf. Jo Henderson, 49, was welcomed at St Andrew’s Church by dozens of Christians from around the United Arab Emirates.
The struggle within Anglicanism is a struggle over our basic calling: are we a centralized church that enforces uniformity or a local church bound together in Catholic unity?
Thousands of people today broke into a church compound in Pakistan, burnt down the church, and destroyed the homes of two priests and the school headteacher. The motivation behind the attack near Peshawar, is not yet clear, but the school was looted with newly installed computers being stolen and the building was set alight.
So the essential question is not do we need a structure but does this structure express and embody God’s spirit? The straight answer to that, the reviewers have said is, that it does not, and to be honest no structure ever will fully embody it because we are fallible human beings who always fall short of what God requires of us.
The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, Primate of Nigeria is appealing to the government to confront the violent Muslim extremist group Boko Haram. Okoh’s rhetoric is significantly more temperate than that of his predecessor Peter Akinola, but he makes it clear that religious violence may spin out of control in his country.
There’s good news and bad news: if you get married in an Anglican Church in the Diocese of Sydney, Australia, the bride no longer has
The Book of Common Prayer “has seeped into the collective consciousness more profoundly than that of any other book written in English, even the Bible.” … [I]t shaped the inner life and branded the tongue of the English-speaking peoples. Its phrases and rhythms did not merely enter the language. They largely defined the language.
by Elizabeth Kaeton “The communion is a gift from God. It is a treasure. We cannot divide it. We should treasure it even though we
PM News Nigeria reports that The Most Rev. Josiah Ferson, Diocesan Bishop of the Kaduna Diocese of the Church of Nigeria, attributes drops in church