I am Bishop Enock Lee Drati, the Bishop of Madi, West Nile Diocese bordering with Sudan and Congo. At the 1998 Lambeth Conference, Anglican bishops asked for the worldwide church to work with their governments to cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries. Since Lambeth, debt relief has become a priority for the Episcopal Church in the United States and throughout the Anglican Communion.
11 July 2000
The 24 member communities of the Conference on the Religious Life celebrated 50 years of ministry on Sunday afternoon in St John's Cathedral.
11 July 2000
Your Grace, the Presiding Bishop, Members of the General Convention, invited Guests, Sisters and Brothers: I once read of a Bishop who started his Charge to his Diocesan Convention as follows: "I feel rather like a swan. I look all calm and serene on the surface, but I am paddling like the dickens underneath!" And that's me today!
11 July 2000
I am delighted that both Houses of our General Convention have now passed "Called to Common Mission," the proposed revision of the Concordat of Agreement, together with the related constitutional and canonical changes.
11 July 2000
Over the next eighteen months the sound of the trumpet will be heard all over the Diocese of Northern California as part of their Jubilee Celebrations, which start officially on 11th June - the Feast of Pentecost.
30 May 2000
An organisation formed in America to increase the representation in church leadership of clergy born between 1961 and 1981 (the so-called "Generation X"), has agreed to widen its membership to include lay people and those of different generations.
18 May 2000
The church of St Francis, Fair Oaks, in Northern California has seen its congregation increased by a number of canine members. Very appropriate for a church dedicated to the patron saint of animals! However, these are no ordinary dogs, but Golden Labradors who are being trained for special jobs as guide and helper dogs for people with disabilities.
18 May 2000
Over the years, I have become aware how important conjunctions are in our common language. We can all think of occasions when we think we are being praised - whether it is a speech we might have given, a job we have done quite well or a good deed we might have performed.
18 May 2000
It is Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Perkins we must thank for so generously endowing the Lectureship in 1943; the purpose of which is "to bring speakers to deliver lectures or talks for the furtherance of the Christian Religion…
15 May 2000
Two priests who were serving in separate dioceses of the Church of Ireland are now living under the same roof in Maryland, USA.
18 April 2000