A guide from the National Council of Churches USA (NCC) to a new film about the last days of Jesus Christ, has been endorsed by the Episcopal Church's ecumenical and interfaith officer as a helpful guide to congregations viewing the controversial film. Called “The Passion of the Christ” and directed by Mel Gibson, the film is to open at cinemas on Ash Wednesday (25 February).
20 February 2004
"To my colleagues, the Primates of the Great Anglican Communion; to my sister and brother bishops of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America; and to the bishops and other clergy and lay leaders of our beloved Province of the Central Region of America, which includes the countries of Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador; to all, peace and goodness in the name of the living and true God that surely is among us.
13 February 2004
Episcopalians were part of a thirty-member delegation of the National Council of Churches of Christ (USA) invited to Cuba, 22-28 January 2004.
11 February 2004
Statement of the Episcopal Church of Guatemala on the participation of the Central American Primate in Gene Robinson’s consecration
05 February 2004
Archbishop Michael Peers' 18-year primacy of the Anglican Church of Canada officially ended with his retirement last weekend. As of Sunday 1 February, the church is under an acting primate until Archbishop Peers' successor is elected at General Synod on May 31. Candidates for this election will be nominated by members of the House of Bishops when it meets in Regina in April.
02 February 2004
Archbishop Michael Peers has called on various religious traditions in Canada to rise above their differences and renew their public role in society saying their contributions are "particularly crucial" as more and more Canadians are "losing confidence in the common good".
26 January 2004
Episcopal Relief and Development is providing support to victims of Cyclone Heta, which hit Samoan islands in the Pacific in early January. Winds, flash flooding, and strong waves damaged homes and destroyed crops.
22 January 2004
A gathering of more than 3,000 conservative Episcopalians from the USA met in Woodbridge, Virginia, January 9-10, to declare their faith and commitment to the traditional teachings of scripture in the Anglican Communion and to prepare for realignment of an orthodox Anglicanism in the United States.
16 January 2004
Parishes in the former British Columbia diocese of Cariboo, Canada, will once again have a bishop. Now called the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI), representatives from the parishes on January 10 nominated Canon Gordon Light to the position of bishop suffragan to the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and the Yukon, currently Archbishop David Crawley.
13 January 2004
Archbishop Drexel Gomez, Primate of the Province of the West Indies, was among the speakers who stirred the "Future of the Anglican Communion" conference meeting January 8-9 in Charleston, South Carolina, with calls for disciplinary action against the Episcopal Church, USA, (ECUSA) for its stance on homosexuality and the interpretation of scripture and tradition.
13 January 2004