Now that they no longer need to spend their time battling apartheid, South Africa's Churches have found another common enemy - the nation's spiralling crime rate. Crime has overtaken political violence as the major preoccupation of both politicians and the general public. According to official figures, a murder is committed every three minutes in South Africa.
04 March 1996
The Archbishop was speaking in a personal capacity from Cape Town. He was interviewed by the Sunday Programme after he had signed a statement of support for the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. The statement forms part of an advertisement for the movement's 20th birthday.
12 February 1996
Bishop Dinis Sengulane of the Diocese of Lebombo has written to the Anglican Communion office telling people how the Decade of Evangelism has been relaunched in his diocese. See the June edition of Anglican World for more details and photographs.
03 February 1996
The Anglican Church of Uganda is grappling with an acute financial crisis, despite an appeal by President Yoweri Museveni to the Churches to become self-reliant and stop "begging" abroad. A spokesperson for the Church said employees at the Church's headquarters, in Kampala, including Archbishop Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo, had not received their salaries for the months of October and November 1995.
03 February 1996