A delegation of US Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican Church leaders are visiting the Middle East between April 16 and 27. Planned for several months, the trip is "all the more urgent" given the deepening crisis, said the delegation's leader, the Revd Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches.
23 April 2002
The Revd Canon Dr Eugene R Fairweather, a Canadian Anglican theologian and ecumenist of international stature, died on Saturday 6 April, in Nova Scotia.
10 April 2002
Amid the terrible surge of violence in the Holy Land, I wish to thank you for your decision to send Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region and for your call for Israeli forces to withdraw from Palestinian cities.
08 April 2002
Over the past ten days, suicide bombings in Israel and armoured invasions in the Occupied Territories have galvanized the attention of people around the world.
08 April 2002
Presiding Bishop Hanson of the ELCA has sent this letter to President Bush with a copy to Secretary Powell. The letter from Jerusalem Christian leaders that he enclosed with this letter follows:
03 April 2002
The current round of violence in Israel and the occupied territories has brought the crisis to its lowest and most dangerous ebb in many years.
03 April 2002
Katherine Tyler Scott, president of Trustee Leadership Development Inc, noted author and leadership educator, has been elected president of the board of the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes,
26 March 2002
Despite dire predictions of a confrontation over a range of sensitive issues in the life of the Episcopal Church, the annual spring retreat of bishops ended on March 12 with general agreement that it had been one of the deepest and most honest encounters many of them had experienced.
20 March 2002
I often find that the simple seemingly chance experiences of our ordinary days have a way of opening us to new understanding.
20 March 2002
Bishop Jack Iker of Fort Worth has written to Sarah Harte of New York, co-chair of an Executive Council task force that has been asked by General Convention resolution to monitor progress in three dioceses that still do not ordain women to the priesthood, expressing his "dismay" with her report to the recent council meeting in San Antonio.
08 March 2002