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Questions about evangelism? Why not #AskTheArchbishop

Archbishop Justin Welby will answer questions about evangelism tomorrow in a question and answer session hosted on Twitter.

31 May 2017

USPG chief Janette O’Neill to step down

The international Anglican mission agency USPG has announced that its chief executive, Janette O’Neill, is to retire at the end of August.

30 May 2017

Prayer and solidarity after another terror attack on Coptic Christians

Anglican church leaders have expressed their prayerful solidarity with the Coptic Church after the latest terror attack in Egypt.

30 May 2017

Anglicans and Roman Catholics agree statement on ecclesiology

Members of the third-phase of the Anglican - Roman Catholic International Commission (Arcic) have agreed a statement on ecclesiology

30 May 2017

German Protestant Kirchentag opens to call for renewal of global order

Former United States president Barack Obama joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in front of tens of thousands of people on 25 May, the first full day of Germany’s biggest Protestant gathering, the Kirchentag, or “church festival”.

26 May 2017

New annual prayer day links dioceses in South America and northern England

People in two dioceses on opposite sides of the globe are today (25/5) engaging in their first joint annual prayer day. The Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Revd James Newcome, and the Bishop of Northern Argentina, the Rt Revd Nick Drayson have sent reciprocal filmed messages of greeting.

25 May 2017

Church of South India expresses 'anguish' over government backing for GM food product

The Church of South India has expressed significant concern over a government recommendation that genetically modified mustard be made commercially available.

23 May 2017

Bishop of Manchester offers prayers after suicide attack

The Bishop of Manchester, David Walker, has issued the following statement after the attack at a concert venue in Manchester in northern England in which twenty two people were killed and fifty nine injured.

23 May 2017

Amplifying the Christian voice in a secular Europe

The Conference of European Churches is hosting a conference and networking event for European church and ecumenical communicators and journalists in September.

19 May 2017

Two Iranian Christians face a court hearing this weekend

Two Iranian Christians arrested at a Christmas celebration in 2014 have been summoned to a court hearing this Sunday.

19 May 2017