I am Bishop Enock Lee Drati, the Bishop of Madi, West Nile Diocese bordering with Sudan and Congo. At the 1998 Lambeth Conference, Anglican bishops asked for the worldwide church to work with their governments to cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries. Since Lambeth, debt relief has become a priority for the Episcopal Church in the United States and throughout the Anglican Communion.
11 July 2000
The 24 member communities of the Conference on the Religious Life celebrated 50 years of ministry on Sunday afternoon in St John's Cathedral.
11 July 2000
Your Grace, the Presiding Bishop, Members of the General Convention, invited Guests, Sisters and Brothers: I once read of a Bishop who started his Charge to his Diocesan Convention as follows: "I feel rather like a swan. I look all calm and serene on the surface, but I am paddling like the dickens underneath!" And that's me today!
11 July 2000
I am delighted that both Houses of our General Convention have now passed "Called to Common Mission," the proposed revision of the Concordat of Agreement, together with the related constitutional and canonical changes.
11 July 2000
A Canadian MP has raised the issue of the serious financial situation faced by churches in Canada concerning lawsuits over the treatment of children in residential schools. "Surely it is important to make sure that the churches involved do not go bankrupt or are so severely damaged that much of their social services and social action work will have to be eliminated just to survive," said New Democratic Party member, Bill Blaikie, in a statement to the Canadian House of Commons.
07 July 2000
Two thousand people filled St Paul's Bloor Street in Toronto for the fifth annual service to celebrate the diocese's black heritage. The Revd Cecil Fletcher, who is minister of Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Toronto, preached at the service - the first non-Anglican to do so - and Bishop Michael Bedford-Jones was the chief celebrant.
03 June 2000
I write to share something of this moment in the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. In this troubling time we are faced with litigation so costly as to change radically our structures and our life as a national church. But the time is also profoundly hopeful; God leads us ever deeper into the path of healing and new life.
30 May 2000
Over the next eighteen months the sound of the trumpet will be heard all over the Diocese of Northern California as part of their Jubilee Celebrations, which start officially on 11th June - the Feast of Pentecost.
30 May 2000
The Pope, His Holiness John Paul II sent a message of greeting to the historic May 2000 gathering of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops in Mississauga, Toronto, Canada.
30 May 2000
This meeting of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from 13 countries, convened by His Eminence Edward Cardinal Cassidy and His Grace Archbishop George Carey, gathered at Mississauga, near Toronto, Canada, from 14-20 May 2000.
22 May 2000