We announce with deep sorrow the passing away of the Right Reverend James T. Yashiro, Primate of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai and Bishop of the Diocese of Kitakanto. He passed away at 11:40 pm on March 12 in Murayama Hospital near his residence at the age of 65. He succumbed to respiratory failure after a long illness.
21 March 1997
On July 1, 1997, a historic event will take place in Hong Kong. After 150 years as a British colony Hong Kong will return to the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China.
14 February 1997
At the time of going to press the Anglican Communion Office was receiving a number of reports about the desecration of churches, Bibles and Christian homes in Khanewal, Shanti Nagar and Tobba villages. What follows is a summary of the reports received by 14 February.
14 February 1997
The Diocese of Newark in America has just passed a resolution on Hong Kong at its annual convention. The Resolution states:
Resolved, that this 123rd Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark calls upon our Primate to insist on a full and thorough review by officials of the Anglican Communion of proposals underway in the Diocese of Hong Kong to split itself into three dioceses and declare itself an independent province.
14 February 1997
There could be no one fixed or stereotyped Christian response to the challenge of Islam in the multi-religious, multi-lingual, multi-racial and multi-cultural situation prevalent in most of the advanced countries of the world, the Anglican Consultative Council, meeting in Panama, was told today, 18 October 1996.
04 November 1996
The Beijing government's Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) will not set up an office in Hong Kong, nor will it implement religious regulations or policy after the territory's return to Chinese sovereignty in July next year. This assurance was given by Beijing's leading official on religion, Ye Xiaowen, head of the RAB in the Chinese capital, to religious leaders in Hong Kong.
26 July 1996
The Rt Revd Ignacio Capuyan Soliba, Bishop of Northern Luzon, has been chosen as third Prime Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines at the Church's June Synod. He will be installed early next year upon the retirement of the Most Revd Narcisco Ticobay.
02 July 1996
Japan's Anglican bishops have vetoed moves to ordain women as priests. According to the Church Times, in London, the General Synod of Japan's Anglican Church, Nippon Sei Ko Kai, rejected moves to ordain women priests after the bishops voted six to four against the proposal.
02 July 1996
Nearly a year after the great Hanshin earthquake devastated large areas of Kobe and Osaka in Japan, the Anglican Church in Japan made a report on the situation in the country.
03 February 1996
The Most Revd Bundo Kim OSB, Bishop of Pusan, has been elected Primate of the Anglican Church of Korea for the next two years. He succeeds the Most Revd Simon Kim who has retired.
03 February 1996