In scenes of unprecedented mayhem and carnage, Kenyan paramilitary police stormed All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Nairobi, on 7 July attacking pro-reform advocates who were sheltering inside and leaving the cathedral covered with blood and the pews broken and scattered.
11 July 1997
The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to the Most Revd David Gitari, Archbishop of Kenya, to express his horror over the attack on peaceful protesters in and around All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi.
11 July 1997
This statement on the events of May 25 1997 by the Anglican Church of Freetown has been received via the Church Mission Society (CMS) in London. It is dated 15 June and reproduced here in full. The CMS are coordinating relief efforts to the area. John Evenson of CMS can be contacted for further news reports from the region.
04 July 1997
The Anglican Primate of Kenya, the Most Revd David Gitari, has appealed to the President Daniel arap Moi's government to effect changes on the country's current constitution following earlier requests by the Churches and other institutions.
04 July 1997
The Bishop of Yei, in the southern Sudan, returned home a fortnight ago from Arua in Uganda, where he, his clergy and people have been living since their flight from the Sudanese war in 1990. In the devastated city of Yei, only a quarter of which is standing, the Rt Revd Semi Solomona's former home is now a patch of scrub littered with spent cartridges and shells.
01 July 1997
Churches should accept the "reality of homosexuality" and promote frankness as it cannot be wished away, according to the chairman of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Dr Barney Pityana.
01 July 1997
South Africa's last state president under apartheid, F.W. de Klerk, had a tragic lack of insight into the evil of South Africa's racial segregation policy, the Anglican Bishop of Grahamstown, David Russell, said last week, 19 June.
01 July 1997
Corruption in South African society is subverting and bedevilling the work of honest, caring policemen and women, the Anglican Primate and Archbishop of Cape Town, The Most Revd. Njongonkulu Ndungane, said on 8 June. if we allow prisoners to be released, only to commit a crime again and be returned to prison."
13 June 1997
Kenya's Churches have issued an ultimatum to their country's Government, demanding the implementation of basic constitutional reforms.
13 June 1997
After they successfully participated in the peace making process that saw the signing of the historical peace accord in Rome in 1992 between the Mozambican Government and the rebel Movement-front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO), the Mozambican Churches are now embarked on yet another national programme. This demilitarisation programme aims to swap weapons with farm implements, for example, for a better Mozambique, reports APS writer Osman Njuguna.
10 June 1997