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Anglican women gather to lobby UN on women's lives

Anglican women gather to lobby UN on women's lives

Eighty-one Anglican women gather in New York City beginning February 24 for two weeks of meetings and lobbying in support of the Anglican Observer to the United Nations during the 49th session of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW)

15 February 2005

Revised Spanish translation of Windsor Report

Revised Spanish translation of Windsor Report

A revised version of Section D of the Windsor Report in Spanish is now available

14 February 2005

God's Earth is Sacred: An Open Letter to Church and Society in the United States

God's Earth is Sacred: An Open Letter to Church and Society in the United States

God's creation delivers unsettling news. Earth's climate is warming to dangerous levels; 90 percent of the world's fisheries have been depleted; coastal development and pollution are causing a sharp decline in ocean health;

14 February 2005

Media Advisory on the 2005 Primates Meeting

Media Advisory on the 2005 Primates Meeting

The Primates of the Anglican Communion are to hold their regular meeting at the Dromantine Conference Centre near Newry, Northern Ireland, between 21-25 February 2005. The meeting of the 38 provincial Primates of the Anglican Communion will be centred on Bible study, Eucharist and retreat led by the Archbishop of Canterbury

08 February 2005

Images of Mary

Images of Mary

The forthcoming document on Mary, produced by the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), gives us a chance to look at images of Mary in art and devotion in the Anglican Communion. The Anglican Communion Office is willing to use images, prayers, sermons, and other items from around the Communion within this publication

31 January 2005

Statement on Holocaust Memorial Day

Statement on Holocaust Memorial Day

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, issued a statement to mark National Holocaust Day on 27 January.

28 January 2005

Communique from the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations (IASCER) met in Montego Bay, Jamaica from Sunday, 4th to 10th December 2004. The Most Revd Drexel Gomez, Primate of the West Indies, welcomed the commission on behalf of his province and the Bishop of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands

28 January 2005

Address by the Archbishop of Canterbury on commissioning the new Secretary General

Address by the Archbishop of Canterbury on commissioning the new Secretary General

At the beginning of the Epistle, the apostle describes himself as a "prisoner of the Lord". A prisoner for the Lord's sake, yes. But also, surely and deliberately, the Lord's prisoner. The apostle is somebody whom Christ has taken captive

19 January 2005

New Secretary General commissioned

New Secretary General commissioned

A new chapter of history in the Anglican Communion began today as the Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon was officially commissioned as Secretary General in a service in St Andrew's House Chapel in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, presided at the liturgy and preached the homily.

18 January 2005

CPSA announces US$10 million HIV/AIDS relief

CPSA announces US$10 million HIV/AIDS relief

The Archbishop of Cape, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, and the Rt Revd David Beetge, Bishop of The Highveld and provincial dean, met today [Wednesday 12 January] with South African Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, to brief him on a proposed US$10 million dollar award for a new HIV and AIDS educational programme to be facilitated by the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA)

12 January 2005