The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) will allow widows in Nyanza Province to remarry in the church after establishing the HIV/Aids status of the their late husbands
06 September 2000
I am sorry to share with you the sad news that Marc Nikkel our brother and missionary to Sudan died on the early morning of Sunday 3rd September in his sister and brother-in-laws' home in Reedley, CA.
05 September 2000
The Bishop of Port Elizabeth, the Rt Revd Eric Pike, used the ancient rule of St Benedict in the Charge to his diocesan Synod. He drew parallels between the experiences of Benedict and the situation in Southern Africa today.
31 August 2000
Three departments of the Anglican Church of Kenya have combined to launch a joint Civic Education Programme (CEP) entitled "Discerning Our Way Together." Kenyan Archbishop, the Most Revd Dr David Gitari, launched the new programme at All Saints Cathedral earlier this year.
23 August 2000
The following account of celebrations to mark the 60th birthday of the Rt Revd Itumeleng Moseki, Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman in the Province of Southern Africa, gives a good idea of the diversity, flexibility and local relevance of Anglican liturgical practice!
10 August 2000
On 18 March 2000 around 500 people, many of them young, perished in a fire that swept through a community church in a remote South Western corner of Uganda.
25 July 2000
The cyclones and extreme weather that devastated so much of Mozambique earlier this year also affected Madagascar very badly. Archbishop Remi reported damage to St Lawrence School in Antananarivo. Another cyclone struck in April and caused extensive damage to church property in the Diocese of Antsiranana.
23 June 2000
Five members of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have just spent a week on a pastoral visit to Zimbabwe, a country that is currently experiencing widespread social upheaval. They arrived in the capital, Harare, on 20 May.
30 May 2000
Poverty is most concentrated in Africa, where over 250 million people experience chronic hunger, a further 180 million are undernourished, and more than 40% of the population live in abject poverty.
18 May 2000
The Bishop Barnham Divinity College in Kabale is to become a University this autumn. The South West Ugandan college, which is some 300 miles from the capital, Kampala, was founded in 1924 as a normal day school.
12 May 2000