The Church of the Province of Nigeria is a growing Church. It now has 58 dioceses and recently decided to create three Provinces within the Church. The new Provinces each has its own Archbishop. The new Provinces will be inaugurated on 3 October and the Archbishops will be presented.
21 July 1997
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's days are numbered and his kingdom will crumble, Kenya's Anglican Archbishop David Gitari warned on 17 July.
21 July 1997
A gathering of Anglican archbishops from throughout Africa, meeting in Johannesburg this week, has heard a strongly-worded condemnation of the Kenyan government for using violence against demonstrators demanding democratic reforms.
21 July 1997
The Anglican Bishop of Gambia, the Rt Revd Tilewa Johnson has been appointed the chairman of the country's independent Electoral Commission (IEC).
21 July 1997
In scenes of unprecedented mayhem and carnage, Kenyan paramilitary police stormed All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Nairobi, on 7 July attacking pro-reform advocates who were sheltering inside and leaving the cathedral covered with blood and the pews broken and scattered.
11 July 1997
The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to the Most Revd David Gitari, Archbishop of Kenya, to express his horror over the attack on peaceful protesters in and around All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi.
11 July 1997
This statement on the events of May 25 1997 by the Anglican Church of Freetown has been received via the Church Mission Society (CMS) in London. It is dated 15 June and reproduced here in full. The CMS are coordinating relief efforts to the area. John Evenson of CMS can be contacted for further news reports from the region.
04 July 1997
The Anglican Primate of Kenya, the Most Revd David Gitari, has appealed to the President Daniel arap Moi's government to effect changes on the country's current constitution following earlier requests by the Churches and other institutions.
04 July 1997
The Bishop of Yei, in the southern Sudan, returned home a fortnight ago from Arua in Uganda, where he, his clergy and people have been living since their flight from the Sudanese war in 1990. In the devastated city of Yei, only a quarter of which is standing, the Rt Revd Semi Solomona's former home is now a patch of scrub littered with spent cartridges and shells.
01 July 1997
Churches should accept the "reality of homosexuality" and promote frankness as it cannot be wished away, according to the chairman of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Dr Barney Pityana.
01 July 1997