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ACC: Thousands celebrate Anglican Communion in Panama

ACC: Thousands celebrate Anglican Communion in Panama

City traffic was brought to a standstill in Panama City today, 13 October, when 2,500 members of the local Anglican Church joined delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in a kilometre long procession through the streets to the Gimnasio Nuevo sports hall. 

13 October 1996

Address by John L. Peterson, Secretary General to the Tenth Meeting of the ACC

Address by John L. Peterson, Secretary General to the Tenth Meeting of the ACC

What a great joy it is for me finally to stand before you after being in office for almost two years. What a great privilege it is to meet the appointed members of the Anglican Consultative Council from around the Anglican Communion. I have been waiting a long time for this day and I am thrilled it has finally come.

12 October 1996

Sermon at the Opening Eucharist (Cathedral of St. Luke, Panama City, Panama) of the ACC

Sermon at the Opening Eucharist (Cathedral of St. Luke, Panama City, Panama) of the ACC

You shall not make for yourself any other idol, for God is spirit, the spirit and the ground of all beings, which is love. The creation is an expression of his great spirit of love. We live in a world of love. Therefore you shall not dishonour the name of the Lord your God. God is the ground of our being. Our beings are grounded in love. God is love and love is God.

10 October 1996

ACC: Anglicans Take Up Millennium Call

ACC: Anglicans Take Up Millennium Call

The Tenth Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) will take place in Panama beginning October 10 and running through to October 20. The meeting theme is Witnessing as Anglicans in the Third Millennium.

01 October 1996