The Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, is to visit Romania at the end of July. The Archbishop, who sponsors a Romanian child through the charity The Christian Children's Fund of Great Britain (CCF), will be visiting various charity projects during his visit.
19 July 1999
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, today (29 June 1999) hosted a private consultation on issues relating to the place of gay and lesbian people in the life of the Church of England.
29 June 1999
The Dean of Westminster Abbey, the Very Revd Wesley Carr, has appointed a Roman Catholic to the prestigious post of organist and Master of the Choristers, at the world famous Anglican abbey.
07 June 1999
The Canterbury Cathedral Choir, under the direction of Cathedral Organist and Master of the Choristers David Flood, returned to North America for the first time in five years in April to make a highly successful fifteen-day tour of the US and Canada.
24 May 1999
The Archbishop of Canterbury, has appealed for tolerance towards refugees in the wake of the Kosovo tragedy. Dr Carey made his call only hours after the announcement that Britain is to accept a first group of 120 refugees from the Balkans.
21 April 1999
The Archbishop of Cape Town the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane will undertake an ecumenical visitation to the churches in Germany at the invitation of the German Evangelical Church (EKD).
21 April 1999
The refugees from Kosovo and the victims of the bombing campaign prove that no one has a monopoly on human suffering. Please God may this awful tragedy soon be over. The task of rebuilding peace, confidence and justice in Europe will then have to begin.
07 April 1999
The Christian message of Easter is one of hope, love and new life. Those words stem from the Resurrection of Jesus on that first Easter when death and sin were overcome by the empty tomb.
01 April 1999
In this season of Easter, Christians around the world share the profound pain of all those caught up in tragedies such as Kosovo. Our hearts go out to all those who are suffering the terrible consequences of the violence being inflicted on God’s children in this region and in many other parts of the world.
31 March 1999
In a way, I am amazed at how little the Millennium seems to be impacting upon the majority of Christians. The political wranglings and questions of appropriateness stirred up by the national Millennium Dome project in Greenwich seem to have found most people's 'off' switch, as if that were the beginning and the end of the matter.
29 March 1999