(ENI) The heads of more than 330 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches which are members of the World Council of Churches are to be invited to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare in December for a service of recommitment to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation in 1948 of the WCC.
11 May 1998
With some four and a half thousand asylum cases pending at the Department of Justice the issue of refugees and their shelter in Ireland is starting to loom large with the populace.
11 May 1998
(CPSA) Consideration must be given to the creation of an Economic Union of African States to ensure growth and development for the greatest number of people on the continent.
17 April 1998
(ENI) Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to talk "peace and war" with the rebels in the north of the country who are trying to overthrow his government.
09 April 1998
(CPSA) The announcement by President Bill Clinton that he would raise the issue of the international debt of African countries at the meeting of the G7 group of countries to be held in England in May was welcome, according to the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane.
08 April 1998
(CPSA) A delegation from the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (Anglican), has met the Minister of Education, Professor Sibusiso Bengu, to make representations regarding several issues relating to education.
08 April 1998
(AANA) A Sudanese Air Force Antonov plane on 5 March flew four sorties over the rebel-held town of Yei in the Western Equatorial region of southern Sudan, dropping 13 bombs
01 April 1998
(ENI)The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) wants Zimbabwe declared a Christian nation. The council will make a formal request to Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, in the next few days.
19 March 1998
(AANA) Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi has called on the Churches to keep off politics and instead concentrate on the spiritual needs of the Kenyan people.
10 March 1998
(CPSA) The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, emerged from his meeting with President Nelson Mandela on Thursday 5th March encouraged that the air had been cleared, following reports that the President had criticised him in front of two of his bishops and several other clergy.
10 March 1998