Anglican church leaders have expressed their prayerful solidarity with the Coptic Church after the latest terror attack in Egypt.
30 May 2017
Hundreds of thousands of Christians of all denominations are preparing to take part in the international prayer initiative “Thy Kingdom Come” which starts next week.
18 May 2017
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has concluded his longest pastoral visit to a diocese outside the Church of England by praising the Archbishop of Jerusalem's "bridge-building" work between Israelis and Palestinians.
15 May 2017
The Archbishop of Canterbury has described the imminent re-opening of St Peter's Anglican Church in Jaffa as a story of hope. The church has been closed since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Diocese of Jerusalem is now working on renovating it, with hopes that worship will soon resume there.
12 May 2017
The experience of the church in this region has been of a suffering church for centuries. Sometimes life has been better, sometimes it is less bad. But the nature of suffering is that when it is happening it is all consuming.
08 May 2017
Archbishop Justin Welby, accompanied by the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, Archbishop Suheil Dawani, has visited two hospitals in Gaza City, led worship in the chapel of the city’s Anglican hospital and met members of Gaza’s Christian community on the third day of his official trip to the Holy Land.
05 May 2017
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis have visited Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem.
04 May 2017
Archbishop Justin Welby reflects on meeting Iraqi Christians in Jordan, on the first day of his visit to Jordan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
03 May 2017
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have set up a working group to examine the governance of the Church of England’s cathedrals.
10 April 2017
Speaking in Britain’s Upper Chamber, the House of Lords, about the attack in Westminster on Wednesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has paid tribute to victims and first responders, speaking of the “deep values" in British society.
24 March 2017