The Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori preached at St. James Church in Florence, Italy on recognizing the risen Christ. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, at Canterbury Cathedral spoke of the truth of the resurrection in our lives.
Let us pray to you, the Lord, the Shepherd of my people – We remain without care. Come and rescue the people of Sudan, come and strengthen the weak, heal the sick and bind up the injured. Help us to uncover and revoke those that are destroying the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, those that are stealing cattle and those that are abusing their political power and wealth. Lord Jesus, protect this country and let her live in love, peace and unity, for ever and ever. Amen.
Easter message from Bishop Suheil S. Dawani, Bishop of Jerusalem. The Episcopal Church has asked that our Good Friday collections go to the Diocese of Jerusalem.
Almost every recent document dealing with Anglican governance speaks of the Instruments of Communion as though they are well-established and widely supported. Yet the attempt to invest these instruments with ecclesiastical authority is barely a decade old, has never been examined in any formal way by the member Churches of the Communion and has never even been approved by the so-called instruments themselves.
In a comment on the blog Titus 1:9, Ephraim Radner, a member of the Covenant Design Group has suggested that the word “Church” was used in the Ridley Cambridge Draft of the Anglican Covenant rather than the word “province” to provide for the possibility that schismatic churches and individual dioceses could “request recognition and participation.” The question is, why wasn’t such an important point made clear in the text?
The Episcopal Church has filed a brief with the Virginia Supreme Court, asking it to reverse a Fairfax County Court judge who ruled that the Church’s property now belongs to congregations affiliated with the Anglican Church of Nigeria. The Diocese of Virginia has also filed an appeal.
The Joint Standing Committee recommendations may address the extent to which the decision of any covenanting Church to continue with an action or decision which has been found to be “incompatible with the Covenant” impairs or limits the communion between that Church and the other Churches of the Communion. It may recommend whether such action or decision should have a consequence for participation in the life of the Communion and its Instruments. – Ridley Cambridge Draft
The Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) has paid the Anglican diocese of Niagara $20,000, which it was awarded for legal costs by an Ontario Superior
According to the American Anglican Council’s C.O.O. and chaplain, it is unlikely that Anglican Church in North America, a group headed by Bishop Robert Duncan,
The wardens of the Falls Church, Nigerian, have written to parishioners who donated to a capital campaign several years ago, asking them for permission to divert those contributions to help pay legal bills incurred by parishes that have broken away from the Episcopal Church and placed themselves under the authority of Archbishop Peter Akinola.