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Students volunteer over 8,000 hours

Students volunteer over 8,000 hours

Over 140 students from the Episcopal High School (EHS) in Houston, Texas, spend two weeks of their final spring semester taking part in community outreach programmes.

18 April 2000

Millennium sermon: One family

Millennium sermon: One family

In his sermon, Archbishop Tutu contrasted the "unending vista of pristine days" that stretches out ahead of us into the future, with the failures, atrocities, exploitation and abuses of the past. He recalled the suffering and injustices of slavery, apartheid, Nazism, fascism, communism, conflict and war.

11 March 2000

PWRDF Responds as Mozambique Floods Continue

PWRDF Responds as Mozambique Floods Continue

The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has provided an initial grant of $15,000 to assist victims of the floods in Mozambique through Action by Churches Together.

04 March 2000

USA: Presiding Bishop meets with Archbishop Carey

USA: Presiding Bishop meets with Archbishop Carey

In a letter to his Council of Advice on 10 February 2000, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA, the Most Revd Frank Griswold, reported on his meeting in London with Dr George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury.

23 February 2000

USA: General Convention Hotel dropped

USA: General Convention Hotel dropped

The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has decided not to use a hotel in Denver, Colorado, for its General Convention this July, even though it had booked the facility two years ago. The United States Department of Justice is bringing charges against the Adams Mark Hotel chain which allege a wide pattern of racial discrimination by the company.

23 February 2000

USA: Yale hosts Major Conference on Future of Ecumenism

USA: Yale hosts Major Conference on Future of Ecumenism

International church leaders and theologians gathered at Yale University on February 4-6, 2000 to discuss the future of the ecumenical movement in the 21st century. 

18 February 2000

USA: Christian Hope 2000

USA: Christian Hope 2000

SEAD (Scholarly Engagement with Anglican Doctrine) held its 11th Annual Conference at the Cathedral of St Luke and St John in Charleston, South Carolina in early January. About 80 people, clergy and laity, attended from 12 states. Six talks were given on the theme of "Christian Hope 2000: Beyond Secularism, Suspicion and Spirituality

11 February 2000

USA: Bishop of Pittsburgh Responds to the Consecration of Bishops Rodgers

USA: Bishop of Pittsburgh Responds to the Consecration of Bishops Rodgers

Word has been received by news reports from Singapore concerning the consecration there yesterday of John Rodgers of Ambridge and Chuck Murphy of Pawleys Island (South Carolina) as missionary bishops for the United States. Since this involves one of our own so directly, I think it both wise and necessary that you have a letter from me as your diocesan bishop.

11 February 2000

USA: A Pastoral Letter to the Congregations of the Diocese of South Carolina

USA: A Pastoral Letter to the Congregations of the Diocese of South Carolina

All of you by now are aware of the consecration of John Rodgers and Chuck Murphy as bishops by the Archbishop of Singapore, the Archbishop of Rwanda, Bishop Rucyahana of Rwanda and Bishop Allison and Bishop Dickson.

11 February 2000

USA: The Future for Christianty

USA: The Future for Christianty

There are more Christians today than the population of the whole world in Jesus' time. Despite concerns about the decline of Anglicanism, its growth has been impressive. In 1600, there were 47 Anglican dioceses, by 1800 this had increased to 60. By 1900 there were 223 diocese - today there are 593 across the world

08 February 2000