We have concluded our second meeting of the AIDS Board of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA). We have re-committed ourselves to the vision "of a Generation without AIDS", stated this time last year at the first All Africa Anglican Conference on HIV/AIDS at Boksburg, South Africa.
30 August 2002
Prominent religious leaders from all over Africa gathered in Nairobi in June under the auspices of the World Conference on Religion, and Peace and Hope for African Children Initiative to reflect on their role in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Joyce Mulama joined them and in her report, projects their concern and their bold interfaith declaration.
28 August 2002
Today's first speaker was Rosina Wiltshire of the UN Development Programme. Rosina's presentation was entitled 'Gender and Human Development' and she spoke of the series of UN conferences and summits with which she had been engaged as an advocate of women's rights.
23 August 2002
This morning delegates began, as they do each day, with meditation led by Claire Foster, taking one sentence from scripture. Today it was “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth”.
22 August 2002
Representatives from around the Anglican Communion have begun the first ever event the Communion has held to discuss and debate the issue of sustainable development, which is the subject of the forthcoming World Summit.
22 August 2002
The Rt Revd Benjamin Paul Mwanzia has been elected as the new Primate of Anglican Church of Kenya.
21 August 2002
Lydia Tushabe enjoys being in business. She started out with a little hair salon in a room by the side of a road that runs into Kabale. With her loan from the Five Talents funded program she was able to open a retail shop with primary sales in bananas.
07 August 2002
I am delighted by the appointment of Rowan Williams. I have known him and his wife Jane since the 80's - a very difficult time for the church in South Africa. It was then that they responded to my invitation to lead seminars in this country and their input was invaluable and hugely encouraging at a time when we desperately needed friends in the North.
01 August 2002
Teachers, researchers, activists and policy makers from five countries in Southern Africa will meet together with partners from the UK on 18 July in London, at a conference in Senate House, University of London to assess what can be done to overcome HIV/AIDS in the education sector.
17 July 2002
Passing through London I was horrified by newspaper headlines stating that the average life expectancy in Africa will soon be only 26 years. The same UNAIDS report that made such alarming news around the world warns that the AIDS pandemic is yet to peak - we haven't seen the worst of it yet!
17 July 2002