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More news from the Sudan

More news from the Sudan

The Christians gathered for prayer at all Saints Cathedral Khartoum of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan on Wednesday 11th. April where by the Church authorities were to also brief them of the steps taken to approach the government over the unfair treatment they were given to ban the celebration at Green Square.

25 April 2001

Statement re Anglican AIDS Initiative

Statement re Anglican AIDS Initiative

At the recent meeting of primates (archbishops representing the worldwide Anglican Communion) it was resolved that the church’s first priority is to adopt a holistic and effective approach to HIV/AIDS. I was commissioned to facilitate a workshop in order that a strategic plan for sub-Saharan Africa may be developed.

11 April 2001

Call to cancel Mozambique's debt

Call to cancel Mozambique's debt

I have just returned from a visit to Northern Mozambique where I witnessed soul-searing poverty and its diabolical impact on a community ravaged by colonialism, war and floods.

02 April 2001

Kenyan Inter-denominational women seminar discusses their role in church

Kenyan Inter-denominational women seminar discusses their role in church

Women from the various Kenyan church denominations gathered at St. Paul's United Theological College in Limuru, Kenya, to share their experiences in ministry and urged the church to find measures to improve poor women and structures that empower and disempower them.

02 April 2001

More to Anglican Bishops' AIDS campaign than testing

More to Anglican Bishops' AIDS campaign than testing

The Anglican bishops are very mindful that there is more to Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) than the actual test itself. They are being careful to ensure that the VCT exercise is meaningful and will have maximum impact, within and without the church.

26 March 2001

Archbishop George Carey: The visit to Nigeria 2001

Archbishop George Carey: The visit to Nigeria 2001

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd George Carey has expressed hope that both government and religious leaders in Nigeria will work for better relations between Christians and Muslims. This sentiment came following his two-week visit to the home of 15 million Anglicans in a country of 118 million people.

06 March 2001

"The Christians raised their heads..."

"The Christians raised their heads..."

Ash Wednesday began for me with the power of the Book of Common Prayer's Litany of Penitence and Confession. The day lived up to its message in some ways for me and indeed I knew it was Lent. 

06 March 2001

Democratisation of Africa difficult, but participants express hope for the future

Democratisation of Africa difficult, but participants express hope for the future

African nations with recently established democratic governments have experienced trying times through the process, but church representatives from two of those countries say the people want to make their representative governments work.

12 February 2001

Archbishop of Canterbury begins visit to Nigeria

Archbishop of Canterbury begins visit to Nigeria

Dr George Carey has today (31 January) begun his visit first ever to Nigeria, and the first by an Archbishop of Canterbury for eighteen years.

31 January 2001

Concern for Congo Archbishop

Concern for Congo Archbishop

New outbreaks of fighting in eastern DR Congo has left at least 100 dead and caused more than 3,500 to flee over the Ugandan border and there are fears for the safety of the Christian community including the country's Anglican Archbishop.

24 January 2001