The mission agency Manna, the Mozambique and Angola Anglican Association, believes it is good to be Anglican and are demonstrating this belief by publishing 40 good news stories throughout Lent on social media using the hashtag #Good2BAnglican and its own website.
24 February 2016
A self-imposed ban on the use of Styrofoam – or Polystyrene – products by members of the Mothers’ Union in Southern Africa will lead to an increase in washing up – but it’s a price that the members are willing to pay for the impact their decision will have on the environment.
23 February 2016
Anglican bishops from across southern Africa have resolved that gay and lesbian partners who enter same-sex civil unions under South African law should be welcomed into congregations as full members of the church. A document outlining guidelines on members living in same-sex unions will be sent to the church’s ruling body, which meets this year.
22 February 2016
The Bishop of Matabeleland, Cleophas Lunga, has opened a cross-border round table on the elimination of Malaria in sub-Saharan Africa by saying that the “Anglican Church has a unique role to play” in the elimination of the disease in Zambia.
18 February 2016
An HIV-positive father of four in Durban, South Africa has gone from losing hope to loving life
17 February 2016
The Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has called for prayers for South Africa as the country’s Parliament debates the state of the nation.
11 February 2016
Anglicans and other Christians are being challenged to take enjoy a candlelit dinner as part of a series of challenges for a “carbon fast” during Lent. The initiative comes from the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and is being supported by the Anglican Communion’s Environmental Network (ACEN).
25 January 2016
People suffering from the catastrophic effects of climate change need help to adapt or – where the effects are so significant that adaption is not a possibility – they need help to move on, the Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba said.
27 November 2015
The Primate of Southern Africa, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, is backing a new campaign that brings businesses and people together to celebrate the “great nation” of South Africa “and share its beauty, culture, diversity and achievements with the world.”
25 November 2015
The first woman to be ordained a priest in South Africa has died, it has been announced. The Revd Canon Nancy Charton served at Grahamstown Cathedral as a lay minister and Sunday School teacher before being ordained there first as a deacon and then, in 1992, she was one of three women ordained priest by the late Bishop David Russell.
11 November 2015