The Diocese of Winchester is planning a series of pilgrimages to Canterbury to celebrate the millennium. A specially commissioned pilgrim's staff, made by local craftsman Charles Piggott, will be blessed in a service in Winchester Cathedral on 29th December.
20 December 1999
The Anglican community in Istanbul has recently announced the continuing struggle of its Istanbul Anglican Earthquake Appeal, which was set up after the huge earthquake in Turkey earlier this year
20 December 1999
The impact on the church of new technology is growing all the time, especially in the area of telecommunications. Examples of the spread of this technology came recently from two sources: the Diocese in Europe and the Shrine of Our lady at Walsingham.
16 December 1999
The joy of the Wise Men is understandable. The Gift of Christ to our world is beyond our comprehension. Christmas is always a joyful time for Christians, a time to reflect, with thankfulness to God, upon the full richness of his gift to the world of the Word made Flesh.
16 December 1999
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, will be visiting the new Tavistock House Cold Weather Shelter in central London on Wednesday 15 December.
15 December 1999
The Archbishop of Canterbury this afternoon (Wednesday 15 December) paid a visit to the Faith Zone at the Millennium Dome.
15 December 1999
I am very grateful to you for the opportunity to say a few words of thanks to all of you who have made it possible for me to see the work you do so well here today.
15 December 1999
Christmas is always a time for parties and celebrations, and for catching-up with family and friends. This year, with the Millennium, we are also celebrating the 2000th anniversary of Jesus' birth - a birth which began when the Angel Gabriel came to Mary.
10 December 1999
The Electoral College of the Church in Wales, meeting at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Llandrindod Wells, has nominated the Rt Revd Dr Rowan Douglas Williams as Archbishop of Wales in succession to the Most Revd Alwyn Rice Jones who retired earlier this year.
07 December 1999
I greet you most warmly for the feast of the nativity of the Lord 1999. Christian faith today is not facing new threats, but old threats renewed, and I pray that the in the third millennium Christians will be led to announce the gospel together with a single united voice, so that the world may believe.
03 December 1999