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Bishops' consultation helps keep Communion together, says Canadian Primate

Four Primates and 20 bishops gathered in Accra, Ghana, recently for the seventh year of the “Bishop in Dialogue” consultations.

04 July 2016

New Archbishop of Kenya enthroned

Thousands of Anglicans from Kenya and beyond yesterday attended the enthronement of their new archbishop, the Most Revd Dr Jackson Ole Sapit at the All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi.

04 July 2016

Mission, refugees, and peace in the Holy Land addressed by WCC

The next World Mission Conference of the WCC will take place in Arusha, Tanzania, in March 2018, it was announced last week.

01 July 2016

Former pro-Apartheid church welcomed back into world ecumenical family

Thirty years after it voted to reject all forms of racism and open its membership to all Christians, the Dutch Reformed Church has been welcomed back as a full member of the World Council of Churches.

01 July 2016

Anglican mission agency seeks 1,000 new missionaries

Ambitious plans to recruit 1,000 new missionaries to follow in the footsteps of pioneers like William Wilberforce and Samuel Crowther have been unveiled by the Church Mission Society.

01 July 2016

Zanzibar's Christ Church Cathedral opens slave-trade heritage centre

Christ Church Anglican Cathedral stands in Stone Town as a symbol of remembrance to the men, women and children taken from East Africa and sold into slavery.

24 June 2016

Episcopal News Service launches French language service

The news service of the US-based Episcopal Church has launched a French language service to complement its existing English and Spanish provision. 

23 June 2016

Bishop Martin Nyaboho elected as next Archbishop of Burundi

The Bishop of Makamba, the Rt Revd Martin Blaise Nyaboho, has been elected as the fourth Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Burundi.

22 June 2016

Prayer call over Nuba Mountains warfare

The only secondary school Umdorain County, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state, has been destroyed in on-going fighting between government forces and the opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Army in the Nuba mountains.

22 June 2016

History of Anglicanism in Rwanda preserved in new Kigali archive

A new archive in the Diocese of Kigali is allowing Anglicans the opportunity to learn more about the history of the church in Rwanda.

16 June 2016