The following account of celebrations to mark the 60th birthday of the Rt Revd Itumeleng Moseki, Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman in the Province of Southern Africa, gives a good idea of the diversity, flexibility and local relevance of Anglican liturgical practice!
10 August 2000
On 18 March 2000 around 500 people, many of them young, perished in a fire that swept through a community church in a remote South Western corner of Uganda.
25 July 2000
The cyclones and extreme weather that devastated so much of Mozambique earlier this year also affected Madagascar very badly. Archbishop Remi reported damage to St Lawrence School in Antananarivo. Another cyclone struck in April and caused extensive damage to church property in the Diocese of Antsiranana.
23 June 2000
Five members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have just spent a week on a pastoral visit to Zimbabwe, a country that is currently experiencing widespread social upheaval. They arrived in the capital, Harare, on 20 May.
30 May 2000
Poverty is most concentrated in Africa, where over 250 million people experience chronic hunger, a further 180 million are undernourished, and more than 40% of the population live in abject poverty.
18 May 2000
The Bishop Barnham Divinity College in Kabale is to become a University this autumn. The South West Ugandan college, which is some 300 miles from the capital, Kampala, was founded in 1924 as a normal day school.
12 May 2000
The Revd Richard Johnson has closed his church in Arcturus, 20 miles from Harare. No Easter services will be held at the simple whitewashed building because of attacks and threats from gangs who claim loyalty to Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe.
12 May 2000
In a sermon in the southern Sudanese city of Juba on Sunday morning, Dr Carey called for misconceptions and misunderstandings to be put aside in the interests of peace and reconciliation.
01 May 2000
The state of the nation of Zimbabwe is a cause of concern. The War Veterans have invaded farms which are owned by White commercial farmers which has regrettably resulted in the death of people i.e. White and Black.
26 April 2000
The Diocese of Yambio has published the first edition of a new quarterly newsletter, The Light, which marks a new stage in the development and growth of the Episcopal Church of Sudan.
28 March 2000