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Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Receives US Honorary Degree

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Receives US Honorary Degree

The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town yesterday said that the honorary degree he has been awarded by an American seminary ‘is for all South Africans who were denied access to education’.

21 May 2009

Bishop Eliud Wabukala elected as the new Archbishop of Kenya

Bishop Eliud Wabukala elected as the new Archbishop of Kenya

The Rt Revd Dr. Eliud W. Wabukala was elected the 5th Primate and Archbishop of Kenya in a very peaceful, joyous and orderly election process by a 158 member Electoral College of the Anglican Church of Kenya that was gathered at the All Saints Cathedral on 24th April, 2009

28 April 2009

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba - World Malaria Day Statement

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba - World Malaria Day Statement

‘The cost of preventing and treating malaria is only a fraction of what the disease costs us in terms of lost lives, lost income, lost productivity, lost learning’ Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has said. ‘The world must get its priorities right in tackling this preventable and curable disease, which claims a million lives a year, and causes the death of a sub-Saharan African child ever 30 seconds.’

24 April 2009

Press Release from the Church of the Province of Central Africa

Press Release from the Church of the Province of Central Africa

The Church of the Province of Central Africa (which is the Anglican Church in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana) announces that the Court of Confirmation of the new bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Upper Shire met on 16th April, 2009 at Chilema Conference Centre Chapel at Malosa.

24 April 2009

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba speaks on flooding in Namibia and Angola

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba speaks on flooding in Namibia and Angola

'Continuing exaggerated weather patterns across Southern Africa are a further illustration of the urgent need to tackle global warming' Archbishop Thabo Makgoba said on Tuesday, calling for swift and decisive global action on climate change.   

27 March 2009

Lenten Greetings from the Indian Ocean.

Lenten Greetings from the Indian Ocean.

From the Most Revd Ian Ernest, Archbishop of the Province...In collaboration with the Malagasy Embassy, the Province will organize a vigil of prayer for Madagascar in the Diocese of Mauritius, on Tuesday 17th March from  7.30(local time)

17 March 2009

Consultation in Sudan

Consultation in Sudan

The first workshop of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan’s (ECS) Commission for Inter faith and Ecumenical Relations was held in ECS Provincial Headquarters, Juba, during the period 23-27 February 2009

10 March 2009

Statement from the Anglican Bishops of the Church of the Province of Central Africa

Statement from the Anglican Bishops of the Church of the Province of Central Africa

We the Bishops of the Province of Central Africa in holding and believing that all people are created equal in the image of God and that God wills his people to live their lives to its full potential abundantly, cautiously welcome the formation of the Government of National Unity in Zimbabwe

06 March 2009

Archbishop Deng lobbies HM Government to help end LRA crisis

Archbishop Deng lobbies HM Government to help end LRA crisis

The Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, the Most Rev’d Dr. Daniel Deng Bul Yak, has this week sent a petition, on behalf of his Church, the Church of Uganda and the Anglican Church in north eastern DR Congo, to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

05 March 2009

Support PM Tsvangirai's Appeal For Help, Says Archbishop Makgoba

Support PM Tsvangirai's Appeal For Help, Says Archbishop Makgoba

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town today (Wednesday) appealed to the international community "to give generously" to Zimbabwe's new unity government in response to pleas for help by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

25 February 2009