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Botswana's first locally trained ordinands become priests

The first locally trained priests in the Diocese of Botswana have been ordained in what was the largest ordination service held in the 42-year history of the diocese, in the Anglican Province of Central Africa.

16 December 2015

Christmas Message from the Primate of Uganda

Archbishop Stanley Ntagali’s 2015 Christmas Message 

15 December 2015

Young people invited to spend "a year in God's time" at Lambeth Palace

Young Christians from around the world are being invited to spend ‘a year in God’s time’ at Lambeth Palace, the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, as applications open for the second year of the Community of St Anselm.

14 December 2015

Unity, Faith and Order body welcomes Primates Meeting

The body responsible for promoting the deepening of communion between the churches of the Anglican Communion and its ecumenical partners has welcomed next month’s Primates Meeting in Canterbury, describing it as“an opportunity for a new, redeemed conversation within the Communion.”

14 December 2015

Communiqué from the 9 December 2015 meeting of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO)

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order met at Elmina, Ghana, from 2 to 9 December 2015.

14 December 2015

Anglicans welcome "end to fossil fuel era"

Anglican bishops have welcomed this weekend’s international agreement at the climate change talks in Paris. Negotiators from around 200 countries have reached agreement on a far-reaching package of measures, which has been dubbed “the end of the fossil fuel era.”

14 December 2015

Climate change negotiators head for final agreement

Negotiations at the UN-led Climate Change talks in Paris (COP21) will continue up to and beyond the wire, with a final agreement not expected until tomorrow – the day after the talks were due to come to an end.

11 December 2015

Anglican and Muslim leaders discuss combatting violence done in the name of religion

Terrorism results from the misuse of religious texts taken out of context; and sound teaching is needed to combat its aggressive ideology, Anglican and Islamic leaders agreed this week during a meeting Cairo.

11 December 2015

Sudanese "Lost Boy" ordained a deacon in Utah

In 1987, some 20,000 boys who fled the Sudanese civil war became stateless – their parents and families had been killed, and there was no prospect of being reintegrated in the country they had fled to avoid death or forced conscription into the northern Army. Some of them were eventually resettled in the USA and now one of these, Gabriel Garang Atem, has now been ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Utah.

09 December 2015

One killed and two injured in gun attack on church

A young boy has been killed and two people injured after an armed gang attacked a church in the Burundian capital Bujumbura. No motive for the attack on St Mark’s Church, Ngagara, is known; but it is believed to be part of ongoing violence that has left more than 240 people dead since President Pierre Nkurunziza announced in April that he would seek re-election for an unprecedented third term. President Nkurunziza won July’s election and survived an attempted coup.

09 December 2015