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New website for Anglican Communion News Service

The news service of the Anglican Communion has launched a purpose-built website

13 June 2013

New UN, faith-based NGO guidelines on welcoming displaced people

New principles to help faith leaders to respond to refugees and displaced people to be unveiled

12 June 2013

Video: Abp of Canterbury supports global hunger campaign

Watch Archbishop Justin's video message for the launch of the IF campaign against hunger

08 June 2013

Archbishop of Canterbury on UK government's same sex marriage Bill

Read the Archbishop's speech made during the Hosue of Lords' debate on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill 

04 June 2013

The Melanesian Brothers and Sisters visit Abp Justin

Members of four Melanesian religious orders visited Abp Justin at Lambeth Palace last week and pledged to work for Communion peace and reconciliation

04 June 2013

Archbishop of Canterbury's statement on the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby

Archbishop of Canterbury's statement on the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said today that "all our prayers and mine" are with the family of Lee Rigby, the British soldier killed in Woolwich on Wednesday. In a joint press conference in Leicester with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, the Archbishop praised the responses of different faith groups to the incident and said this is "very much a time for communities to come together". 

24 May 2013

Archbishop Welby meets Desmond Tutu

The South African archbishop and social rights activist Desmond Tutu "incarnates the grace of God," said Archbishop Justin Welby.

23 May 2013

Three thousand attend enthronement of Tanzania's new Primate

Around 3,000 people gathered at Dodoma's Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on Saturday for the installation of the Anglican Church of Tanzania’s new Primate.

20 May 2013

Joint statement from The Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster, Justin Welby and Vincent Nichols, concerning the ongoing violence in Syria

Joint statement from The Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster, Justin Welby and Vincent Nichols, concerning the ongoing violence in Syria

Since the very first days of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, we have prayed as we watched in horror and sorrow the escalating violence that has rent this country apart.

26 April 2013

Jesus is 'always making us new': Abp Justin's Easter sermon

Archbishop Justin has said in his Easter sermon that pinning hopes on individuals in politics and public life is "always a mistake".

31 March 2013