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Anglican Bishops Recommend Dialogue with Homosexuals

Anglican Bishops Recommend Dialogue with Homosexuals

The seven diocesan bishops and the primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB), recommended that Anglicans receive people of any race, culture, social class or sexual orientation with love.

25 April 1997

Four Candidates for Presiding Bishop Announced

Four Candidates for Presiding Bishop Announced

Four bishops have been nominated as candidates for the next Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA.

18 April 1997

Anglican Conference Reviews Decade

Anglican Conference Reviews Decade

While it may walk a little slowly, the Church is working on missionary transformation, according to leaders from the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB). The statement was made April 10 at the end of a meeting to evaluate the Decade of Evangelism which will end in year 2001. The meeting brought together more than 70 Church leaders from the seven dioceses of Brazil.

18 April 1997

Eau Claire has companion relationship with Old Catholics

Eau Claire has companion relationship with Old Catholics

The Diocese of Eau Claire in ECUSA has established an agreement for prayer and fellowship with the Old Catholic Diocese of Germany, the first such agreement between Episcopal and Old Catholic dioceses.

14 March 1997

Diocese of Connecticut offers wooden crosses

Diocese of Connecticut offers wooden crosses

As part of a "pure evangelistic undertaking", the Diocese of Connecticut is distributing small wooden crosses made by Christian Palestinians from olive wood. According to Alinda Stanley, chair of the diocese's evangelism committee, "the crosses have filled a great need here in Connecticut, to provide a simple, powerful tool for Episcopalians to witness to the power of Christ's love for the world."

07 March 1997

Canadian Giving Increases

Canadian Giving Increases

All 30 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada have met or exceeded amounts they had agreed to pay in 1996 to help finance national ministry and mission. Seven dioceses actually paid more to the apportionment, or program, part of the budget than they had originally committed themselves to. Additional payments were made by the dioceses of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Huron, Niagara, Ontario, Toronto and Edmonton.

21 February 1997

Argentina: Land Rights of Indians Still Not Resolved

Argentina: Land Rights of Indians Still Not Resolved

Further to the ACNS report in the mailing of November 1996 about the land rights campaign by the Wichi and Chorote Indians of the Northern Argentine Chaco, Bishop Patrick Harris, Bishop of Southwell and a former Bishop of Northern Argentina, sent this report update to ACNS.

27 January 1997

Canada: Anglicans Urges to Boycott US Holidays

Canada: Anglicans Urges to Boycott US Holidays

Canadian Anglicans are being encouraged to boycott all US holiday destinations and visit Caribbean venues instead, as a protest against US policy on Cuba.

17 January 1997

USA: New Bishop for Indianapolis - A Profile

USA: New Bishop for Indianapolis - A Profile

The Rev. Catherine Waynick was born and raised in southern Michigan. She has been married 28 years to Larry, an elementary school principal, and they are the parents of two children, who are both in college.

17 January 1997

USA: New Indian theological training institute

USA: New Indian theological training institute

After months of work, the Episcopal Council of Indian Ministries (ECIM) adopted a framework in late October for a new Indigenous Theological Training Institute to provide culturally sensitive leadership training for laity and clergy. 

19 December 1996