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Saintly "Santa" historic visit to Canterbury

Saintly "Santa" historic visit to Canterbury

Saturday, December 8 at 11 a.m. the original image of Santa Claus/Father Christmas will enter Christchurch Gate in Canterbury, St Nicholas, Patron Saint of Children, Sailors and many more.

04 December 2001

An Advent 2001 message from the Holy Land

An Advent 2001 message from the Holy Land

We live in a tumultuous and restless time.  The post-September 11th world has left many fearful for their security and uncertain about the future.  The words 'terrorism' and 'terrorist' have become routine in people's conversations.  Suspicion and doubt about others are becoming all too common.

04 December 2001

School-girl, 12, elected Archbishop of Wales

School-girl, 12, elected Archbishop of Wales

Wales is to have a new Archbishop - Guide Rhian Hartshorn, 12 is to step into the Archbishop of Wales's shoes for a day in aid of the BBC Children in Need appeal. In turn, Most Rev Dr Rowan Williams, is to take her place at Oakdale Comprehensive School for the day and will follow her time-table.

15 November 2001

Sermon given by Archbishop Joseph Marona from the Church of the Sudan

The horrendous events of 11th September have forced the people of America, of this country and of the whole Western world to discover what much of the rest of the world knows only too well: the terror of sudden violence: the fearful uncertainty of what lies ahead; and the unsettling sense of loosing control over what happens in our lives.

15 November 2001

Enthronement Sermon of the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe: Drinking from the Rock

Enthronement Sermon of the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe: Drinking from the Rock

To be Bishop of Gibraltar is to take one's title from a place and a rock, a rock situated at almost the furthest extremity of a diocese which stretches from Madeira and the Canary Islands to Vladivostok, where the chaplain in Moscow has recently been visiting the small congregation and conducting a service for the harvest of the sea with the Orthodox chaplain of the Russian Pacific fleet .

13 November 2001

Notas del Obituario del Obispo Ramon Taibo Sienes

Notas del Obituario del Obispo Ramon Taibo Sienes

El Revmo Ramón Taibo Sienes, Obispo Anglicano de la Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal, falleció el reciente 26 de Octubre de 2001, luego de un larga enfermedad

03 November 2001

Obituary note on Bishop Ramon Taibo Sienes

Obituary note on Bishop Ramon Taibo Sienes

Rt Rev Ramón Taibo Sienes, Anglican Bishop of the Spanish Episcopal Reformed Church passed away last 26th October 2001, after a long time of illness.

03 November 2001

Youth is slain in Bethlehem, and passions flare

Youth is slain in Bethlehem, and passions flare

The spot in Manger Square where Johnny Thaljieh fell has already become a shrine, or perhaps an exhibit. His blackening blood on the cobblestones is surrounded by rocks and blue metal barricades, to honor his memory and to shield the evidence of what his family said was a random slaying by Israeli soldiers after church on Saturday.

23 October 2001

National Day of Prayer in England's churches

The flicker of candles in the Chapel of Our Lady in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral marks a special prayer time led by the Archbishop on the National Day of Prayer for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in the troubled world.

10 October 2001

St Francis Day - 4 October

St Francis Day - 4 October

 have recently revisited Hilfield Friary, tucked away now for over 80 years in the folds of Thomas Hardy's rural Dorset in England. They say ours was the 28 acres that the farmers couldn't use - too stony. Since 1921 there has been some visible Franciscan life in the Anglican Church.

04 October 2001