On 1 October two missionary traditions were brought together to form the United College of the Ascension in Selly Oak, Birmingham. The coming together of the Methodists and the Anglican United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (Anglican) in a United College has taken a number of years. Many Anglican leaders from around the world have trained at the College of the Ascension and recently the College has become pivotal for the new Centre for Anglican Communion Studies.
19 December 1996
The Church of England Synod meeting in November unanimously endorsed the Jubilee 2000 campaign. This is a campaign to persuade the world's banks and governments to remit the unpayable debts of 40 of the world's poorest countries in recognition of the millennium.
19 December 1996
Women representing 14 provinces of the Anglican Communion met at the Mothers' Union headquarters in London in November and decided to form a women's network for the world Church.
19 December 1996
I want to thank the Provost and Chapter for inviting me to preach on this occasion. Thank you to the LGCM for their sensitivity and welcome to me. Amidst all the controversy surrounding this event I Want you to know what an enriching experience it has been to have heard people's stories.
19 November 1996
The General Synod of the Church of England is to consider a new system for dealing with complaints against clergy. Under Authority - Report on Clergy Discipline is published today by the Working Party reviewing Clergy Discipline and the Working of the Ecclesiastical Courts and will be considered at the General Synod meeting later this month. (Synod meets week of 25th Nov).
06 November 1996
History was made today in Rome at St. Paul's Within-the-Walls Episcopal Church with the ordination to the priesthood of the Rev. Ruth Cecilia Monge Teran de Erazo in a richly textured service conducted in Spanish, English and Italian. Cecilia is, almost certainly, the first woman ever to be ordained priest in the City of Rome.
06 November 1996
A one-and-a-half-tonne mountain of shoes, representing lives and limbs lost by landmines, was built on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, in London in October.
06 November 1996
The Church of England has called on the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, to show a renewed commitment to the peace process in the Middle East.
06 November 1996
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) today passed a resolution which endorses a proposal to help create a new town plan for Bethlehem's Manger Square. Anglicans were asked by the Palestinian National Authority to take part in this restoration of Bethlehem.
19 October 1996
"The next Lambeth Conference will be a defining moment for Anglicanism. It will determine what we are and where we are going," said Archbishop Robin Eames to the representatives at the Anglican Consultative Council. "It will stand or fall on our sense of unity and vision."
15 October 1996