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Nominations sought for women advocates to attend UN event in 2020

The search is on for women from across the Anglican Communion to attend the 64th Session of the UNCSW, to be held in New York in March 2020.

15 August 2019

Tributes to an Anglican Communion pioneer of “service-learning”

Tributes have been paid to Dr Linda Chisolm, founder of Colleges & Universities of the Anglican Communion, following her recent death.

09 August 2019

Mozambique missionary and advocate Joan Antcliff dies, aged 98

A retired missionary and advocate, who spent more than 20 years training teachers and working with the church in Mozambique has died.

09 August 2019

Disability advocates call for inclusive action by UN for refugees

Church disability advocates have called for further action from the United Nations (UN) to protect people with disabilities in areas of conflict.

09 August 2019

Churches key responders in battle against latest Ebola outbreak

Churches in the DRC are playing a vital role, alongside healthcare agencies, in the fight against the world’s second largest outbreak of Ebola.

26 July 2019

Supreme court justice becomes Ghana’s first female lay cathedral canon

A justice of the Supreme Court in Ghana is to become the first female and lay Canon of the Church of St Peter in the Diocese of Koforidua.

26 July 2019

“Don’t force us to attend public gatherings”, Archbishop Moses Deng Bol tells South Sudan’s government

The archbishop of Northern Bahr el ghazel has appealed to the South Sudanese government to stop forcing citizens to attend public gatherings.

26 July 2019

Prayer and communion linked with anniversary of moon landing

Facts about the first ever “extra-terrestrial communion” have come to light as people celebrate 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing

26 July 2019

The next Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops begins exactly one year from today

One year to go until more than 1,000 bishops and spouses from around the Anglican Communion join together for the Lambeth Conference.

23 July 2019

Anglican Communion’s Secretary-General says education is key to peaceful communities

Dr Idowu-Fearon says inter-faith religious education will move some of Nigeria’s most divided communities away from hatred and fear.

19 July 2019