Terrorism results from the misuse of religious texts taken out of context; and sound teaching is needed to combat its aggressive ideology, Anglican and Islamic leaders agreed this week during a meeting Cairo.
11 December 2015
The Episcopal Church in America and La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico (the Anglican Church of Mexico) have issued updates on the recuperation of their Primates after both were hospitalised in recent days.
09 December 2015
In 1987, some 20,000 boys who fled the Sudanese civil war became stateless – their parents and families had been killed, and there was no prospect of being reintegrated in the country they had fled to avoid death or forced conscription into the northern Army. Some of them were eventually resettled in the USA and now one of these, Gabriel Garang Atem, has now been ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Utah.
09 December 2015
The Anglican Communion is seeking a new director of communications who will be tasked with unearthing and publishing stories of Christians in action, promoting communication between member churches, and providing a communications service to the Instruments of Communion.
08 December 2015
A young Anglican from Central Africa has said that the Anglican Consultative Council-16 (ACC-16) which will be held in Lusaka, Zambia in April next year, “is a unique opportunity for young people to fully express themselves and shine.”
08 December 2015
Prayers have been asked for the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Revd Michael Curry, after he was hospitalised with a subdural hematoma.
07 December 2015
The Anglican mission agency Mothers’ Union (MU) is taking part in the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence by campaigning for “one in three to zero” – for the number of women globally experiencing gender-based violence to drop from one in three to zero.
04 December 2015
The Presiding Bishop of La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico (the Anglican Church of Mexico), the Most Revd Francisco Moreno, is recovering after a surgical operation for gastric discomfort and is facing two months of recuperation.
02 December 2015
Human Rights ombudsmen have met with Anglican and Episcopal Bishops representing the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to discuss the creation of a regional Anglican Commission on Human Rights to protect refugees in Central America.
02 December 2015
As we mark World Aids Day 2015, the World Council of Churches-Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (WCC-EAA) welcomes a licence agreement between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) for Daclatasvir, an important direct acting antiviral that is proven to help cure multiple genotypes of the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
01 December 2015