The Church of England has launched an online campaign to encourage a renewal of prayer life in the nation; but the organisers could not have expected that the launch of its new website would have received quite as much publicity as it has – thanks to a decision by the UK’s three largest cinema chains to ban an advert featuring the Lord's Prayer.
23 November 2015
The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, the Most Revd Josiah Idowu-Fearon, is inviting everyone to pray daily for the Bishops and Archbishops who will be getting together in Canterbury, 11-16 January.
20 November 2015
Church leaders around the world have offered prayers and messages of solidarity after the series of terrorist attacks in Paris last night which left at least 127 people dead and many more fighting for their lives.
14 November 2015
In Psalm 122, King David extols us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Now the Diocese of Jerusalem is inviting us to do just that. They have produced and shared a Litany for Peace in the Holy Land. They are asking churches and Christians around the world to use it in their prayers on the first Sunday in Advent – 29 November 2015.
11 November 2015
The Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa, in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East, has issued an urgent prayer request following flash flooding in much of Egypt's Delta Region.
09 November 2015
A response from the Church of England to a request from the Bishop of New Zealand for a boat to be used in missionary work in 1850 led to mission outreach work whose fruit is seen today in a number of Anglican provinces.
29 October 2015
Students from Anglican schools throughout the province of Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia have prayed through the night as part of a 24-hour vigil for the refugees streaming out from Syria across Europe, and into camps in Jordan and Lebanon.
16 October 2015
Women aged between 22 and 40 are being invited to “spend a year in God’s rhythm” while they learn to pray, serve others and study, while living in intentional community alongside the Sisterhood of Saint John the Divine in Toronto, Canada.
12 October 2015
Faith in Christ must overthrow “voices of violence and fear that seemingly compel us to stock our lives with firearms”
02 October 2015
Anglican Communion asked to accompany in prayer the Archbishop of Canterbury’s invitation to the Primates
30 September 2015