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Religious leaders' peace mission to Kenya

Religious leaders' peace mission to Kenya

The Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) hosted an inter-faith peace mission to Kenya for religious leaders from the Great Lakes Region from 19th to 21st February 2013.

18 March 2013

Anglicans commissioned to write Titanic II prayer

Anglicans commissioned to write Titanic II prayer

The Mission to Seafarers global maritime welfare charity is pleased to announce that we have been commissioned to write and deliver a prayer of remembrance and to give a blessing to the future crew, passengers and engineers who will sail on the replica cruise ship Titanic II.

14 March 2013

Mission in Kenya aids abandoned crew

Mission in Kenya aids abandoned crew

The Mission to Seafarers in Kenya has come to the aid of an abandoned crew who have been left without food and wages on a cockroach-infested vessel.

14 March 2013

"The Church universal needs Anglicans" - Pope Francis

"The Church universal needs Anglicans" - Pope Francis

The new Pope has reportedly said the Church universal needs Anglicans and that the Ordinariate is "quite unnecessary".

14 March 2013

South Sudan: 'We will persevere'

Bishop Anthony Poggo of Kajo-Keji Diocese, South Sudan, talks with Paul Thaxter (rt), CMS transcultural mission director, and Stephen Burgess, CMS transcultural manager for Africa.

Bishop renews call for prayer for South Sudan and Sudan as agreement to resume oil production is finally reached The nations of Sudan and South Sudan need each other, a South Sudanese bishop has said as an agreement is announced on renewing oil production.

14 March 2013

46.3 percent of Ghanaians are illiterate – Anglican Bishop

46.3 percent of Ghanaians are illiterate – Anglican Bishop

Right Reverend Francis Benjamin Quashie says the lack of adequate access to education had left the country with an illiteracy rate of 46.3 percent

14 March 2013

New Secretary General for the Mission to Seafarers

New Secretary General for the Mission to Seafarers

The Revd Andrew Wright has taken up his new post as Secretary General of The Mission to Seafarers. Revd Wright has joined the Mission from Fishermen’s Mission, where he was chaplain and director of operations.

13 March 2013

Educating young boys and girls key to addressing gender based violence-Bishop of Eastern Zambia

Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Zambia, the Rt Revd William Mchombo has advised that educating young boys and girls on the equality of men and women is the key to addressing issues of gender-based violence in Africa.

13 March 2013

Pacific Conference of Churches resolutions welcomed by WCC

Pacific Conference of Churches resolutions welcomed by WCC

he 10th Assembly of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), meeting from 3 to 10 March in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, adopted a series of resolutions on public issues ranging from climate change and resettlement, through seabed mining and nuclear weaponry, to the self-determination of West Papua and Maohi Nui (or Tahiti).

13 March 2013

WCC in solidarity with Christians attacked in Pakistan

WCC in solidarity with Christians attacked in Pakistan

In a letter to Pakistani churches, the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has condemned the attacks on Christians in Badami Bagh, Lahore, on Saturday, 10 March. More than a hundred houses were burned down following allegations of blasphemy.

13 March 2013