The central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has urged WCC member churches, particularly those with direct links with the Sudan, "to continue and intensify their efforts to encourage and support the unified peace initiatives" by Church organisations in the north and south which are seeking to bring peace to the beleaguered African country.
23 September 1997
The Anglican Church in Southern Africa is to commemorate the coming of the new Millennium with a number of pilgrimages.
23 September 1997
The Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) is planning to expand its work on the sub-continent by establishing a new diocese in war-torn Angola by the turn of the century.
23 September 1997
What follows is a statement by the Primate of Southern Africa, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, regarding Mozambique and the highly indebted poor country initiative - issued in support of representations to be made to the IMF and World Bank during meetings next week.
05 September 1997
Following reports of unrest in parts of Kenya, ACC staff contacted the Provincial Headquarters of the Anglican Church in Kenya. The Revd Canon Enos Z Ashimala, the Provincial Secretary, sent this report on 3 September:
05 September 1997
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, has announced that he is planning to hold a major summit meeting on the eradication of poverty in the first part of next year.
03 September 1997
South Africa's Anglican leaders have rebuked President Nelson Mandela's government for selling weapons on the international market and for buying military equipment with money which, the Church leaders say, is badly needed to alleviate poverty and to pay for social services like health and education.
03 September 1997
Kenya's Churches have told the country's government to arrest the "masterminds" behind an outbreak of violence in the coastal town of Mombasa and the surrounding area following an attack on the town's Likoni Catholic Church on 22 August during which two people were killed.
03 September 1997
Archbishops and representatives of Anglican Churches in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands met in Rosebank, Johannesburg, from Monday, to discuss issues affecting the Church on the continent and to consider challenges and opportunities facing it. They met in the shadow of the attack last week by security forces on people in All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya, and the confiscation by the Nigerian government of the passport of the Primate of the Church in Nigeria, Archbishop Joseph Adetiloye.
21 July 1997
It was time for the sleeping giant of Africa to rise up and take its rightful place amongst the nations of the world, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, told Anglican Archbishops from Africa at a consultation in Johannesburg this week.
21 July 1997