Last night’s terror attack at Istanbul International Airport has been met with a wave of prayer from Anglican and other Christian leaders.
29 June 2016
The Chaplain of the Anglican Church in Greater Athens, Canon Malcolm Bradshaw, has been presented with one of the UK’s civil honours by Princess Anne, the Princess Royal.
23 June 2016
The Church of England’s Diocese in Europe has opened a new parish in central France. The new church of St Alcuin of York will serve an English-speaking congregation in the Touraine. It will meet in two separate buildings: l’Eglise Protestante in Tours and the Roman Catholic l’Eglise St Michel in Savigny-en-Véron.
27 May 2016
Six months after terrorists brought death and destruction to the streets of Paris; and just over six weeks since similar carnage was visited on Brussels, leaving more than 160 people dead and many more injured, ACNS spoke to the clergy of the Anglican churches in the cities to see how they and their congregations are coping now.
11 May 2016
The Revd Christine Goldsmith makes regular visits to Kofinou Refugee Camp located in the Cypriot countryside 20 minutes by car from the port city of Larnaca. The curate at St Barnabas Anglican Church in Limassol, further to the west on Cyprus’s southern coast says she goes to show that someone cares and is willing to listen, and to help where she is able.
25 March 2016
A scheduled Chrism Mass at the Diocese in Europe’s pro-cathedral in Brussels went ahead this afternoon in an “act of defiance” against the terrorists who killed at least 34 people and injured 198 more in a series of bomb attacks in the city’s airport and a metro station.
22 March 2016
Ten children – five boys and five girls – are amongst 26 Kurdish refugees from Iraq who have been confirmed to have drowned off the coast of Samos Island in Greece yesterday, the Anglican mission agency United Society (formerly USPG) say.
29 January 2016
Update on the latest situation facing refugees relocated from Idomeni, on the Greece-Macedonia border, to Athens where they face over-crowding and a lack of resources, by Max McClellan, who is helping to co-ordinate the response to the refugee crisis in Greece on behalf of the Anglican mission agency United Society (formerly USPG) and the Diocese in Europe.
16 December 2015
A painting of the exiled Julia in a grotto in the Gulf of Salerno has sold at auction for more than five times its estimate, raising in excess of half a million pounds which will be used by the United Society (formerly USPG) and the Diocese of Europe in support of their response to the refugee crisis.
10 December 2015
A valuable painting by an Old Master, Joseph Wright of Derby, featuring the exiled adulteress Julia in a cavern in the Gulf of Salerno near Naples, is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s after its owners donated it to the Anglican mission agency United Society (Us, formerly USPG) to support their work with refugees.
03 December 2015