The Constitutional Court's ruling that compels the government to provide drugs that reduce the risk of the transmission of HIV from mother to foetus is both welcome and alarming.
08 July 2002
A consultation towards a Global Christian Forum took place at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California from 15-20 June 2002. Among the 55 participants were representatives from various Orthodox (Eastern and Oriental), Catholic, Anglican, Reformation Protestant, Pentecostal, Evangelical, and African Instituted churches as well as interchurch organizations.
08 July 2002
A letter from the Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council, Bishop Simon Chiwanga
29 June 2002
Jubilee South Africa must be commended for the tremendous energy with which it has pursued truth, justice and reconciliation in regard to the victims and beneficiaries of apartheid.
29 June 2002
Archbishop Joseph Marona has just returned from a demanding two-week pastoral visit up in the Nuba Mountains. The Archbishop’s visit crossed the military front-line under the terms of the local cease-fire agreed earlier in the year and involved strenuous climbs to remote church centres.
18 June 2002
Retired Anglican Archbishop and Nobel Laureate, Desmond Tutu of South Africa, is supporting formation of a charity to aid commercial farmers in Zimbabwe affected by the government's controversial land reforms.
18 June 2002
As more details filter out of Liberia, the violent confrontation between the government and a coalition of rebels is threatening the nation's institutions - including churches.
31 May 2002
On Sunday 26th May 2002: Bishop Roger White, Bishop of Milwaukee Diocese, Wisconsin, USA; Archdeacon Tom Winslow, of the same diocese; and myself visited the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Dr Tantawry.
31 May 2002
Former Missouri senator John Danforth has concluded, after two difficult trips to the Sudan as President George W Bush's special envoy, that the United States should support international efforts to push both sides in the civil war towards a compromise.
23 May 2002
Rebels in Liberia have escalated their attacks and are near the capital of Monrovia, sending thousands of people fleeing into camps outside the city, already crowded with people fleeing fighting in the countryside, according to news reports.
23 May 2002