A project funded by the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG) in Myanmar (Burma) is supplying clean water to nearly 120 families in two remote villages. The project is soon to be extended to other nearby villages to continue the work of combating disease spread by contaminated water.
19 May 2004
The Archbishop of Dublin has appointed the Revd Canon David Pierpoint to be the next Archdeacon of Dublin following on the retirement of the Venerable Gordon Linney in the autumn. The exact date for the appointment to take effect has not been fixed.
17 May 2004
On 11 May, Jane Williams gave the Mary Sumner Lecture at the Mothers' Union in London. The address was to mark the International Year of the Family.
14 May 2004
Church Army's Chief Secretary, Philip Johanson OBE, has warned the church against waiting in vain for young people to return to the fold.
12 May 2004
Armagh is not the only city with two cathedrals facing each other from two hills. If you go to Kampala, you'll see exactly the same phenomenon - the great Anglican cathedral at Namirembe and the Roman Catholic cathedral on the other side of the city
12 May 2004
Mary is a sign of God's peace to both the Church and the world - the Archbishop of York, the Most Revd Dr David Hope, said in his address at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham National Festival in York Minster today.
11 May 2004
Members of the General Synod, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to this meeting of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland in Armagh and pray that Almighty God will bless and guide us in our work.
11 May 2004
The Rt Revd Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, will be guest preacher in the UK's first 3D online church service next week. He will appear as a cartoon double in Church of Fools, conceived by web magazine shipoffools.com.
06 May 2004
At a press conference held today at the Church in Wales' provincial offices in Cardiff (1100 am, Tuesday 4 May 2004), the result of the episcopal election to choose the 80th Bishop of Bangor was announced. The next Bishop of Bangor is to be the Ven Anthony Crockett, presently Archdeacon of Carmarthen in the diocese of St Davids.
04 May 2004
The Most Revd Dr Robin Eames, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, preached at the reopening and rededication of St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh on Friday 30 April.
04 May 2004