This website is best viewed with CSS and JavaScript enabled.

News Stories


england

Isle of Wight conference focuses on environment

Isle of Wight conference focuses on environment

Christians, business leaders and sixth-formers from the Isle of Wight are to find out how they can help save our planet.

04 November 2003

Bishop applauds European dialogue with faiths

Bishop applauds European dialogue with faiths

An important initiative to encourage dialogue between the governments and faith communities of Europe has been applauded by the Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert.

04 November 2003

Archbishop of Canterbury's address at the signing of an Anglican-Methodist Covenant

Archbishop of Canterbury's address at the signing of an Anglican-Methodist Covenant

 At his first meeting with leaders of the Jewish community in Rome, Pope John XXIII, it's said, greeted them with the words, "I am Joseph, your brother". He was evoking one of the most poignant moments in the Old Testament.

02 November 2003

The Anglican-Methodist Covenant celebration and signing on 1 November

The Anglican-Methodist Covenant celebration and signing on 1 November

The Anglican-Methodist Covenant in England will be signed at a national celebration on Saturday 1 November 2003, at 11:00am, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.

27 October 2003

Canon Gene Robinson addresses Halfway to Lambeth by satellite link

Canon Gene Robinson addresses Halfway to Lambeth by satellite link

Speaking via a live satellite link from New Hampshire today, the Revd Canon V Gene Robinson, who will be consecrated as the Anglican Communion's first openly gay bishop next week, told the Halfway to Lambeth conference that "the issue of homosexuality in the Church should not be elevated above all that holds us together".

25 October 2003

Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement hosts Halfway to Lambeth conference in Manchester

Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement hosts Halfway to Lambeth conference in Manchester

After eighteen months of intense planning, the Halfway to Lambeth conference, organised by the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM), began today (24 October) in Manchester, England.

24 October 2003

Continuum launches international Journal of Anglican Studies

Continuum launches international Journal of Anglican Studies

A new international journal is released this month concerned with the study of Anglicanism in all its forms. The scholarly journal is published by Continuum Publishers on behalf of the Journal of Anglican Studies Trust and will appear twice a year.

22 October 2003

Stop for Prayer! It is fundamental to everything we do

Stop for Prayer! It is fundamental to everything we do

Thousands of people are expected to pause for prayer at the launch of a new mission started by the Bishop of Oxford.

22 October 2003

Archbishop salutes new Canterbury Partnership

Archbishop salutes new Canterbury Partnership

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams, opened the new St Augustine's Library at 12 noon on Saturday 11 October in the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral.

13 October 2003

Archbishop of Canterbury's address at a Service of Remembrance for Iraq, St Paul's Cathedral, London

Not long before the First World War, a French poet, who was to be one of the earliest casualties of that conflict, wrote that 'everything begins with mysticism and ends with politics'. People have argued a good deal over what he meant.

10 October 2003