Trinity Grants, a programme of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City, USA, has awarded the African Network of Institutions of Theological Education Preparing Anglicans for Ministry (ANITEPAM), a grant of US$24,000 to develop resources about theological education by extension (TEE) for use in African residential colleges.
25 April 1997
About two years ago four quite ordinary women in Matola (south of Maputo) decided that something had to be done about the young girls, who lived on the verge of becoming street children. They knew that girls are much more vulnerable than boys and that living on the streets would affect the rest of their lives.
18 April 1997
The Episcopal Church of Rwanda has elected bishops to fill its vacant sees. Bishop Ken Barham, Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Cyangugu writes: "The province has struggled for two years to sort out its leadership. But has now made a big move forward.
18 April 1997
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of the Province of Southern Africa, gave the opening prayer at a public Day of Prayer against Crime on 13 April. The day was organised by the police. The Archbishop said that South Africans were glad that under the government of President Nelson Mandela the police were now regarded as friends, no longer as the enemy of the people. The police service was now representative of, and there for all the people.
18 April 1997
The Church Mission Society in London has issued an urgent call for prayer and practical help for 33,000 Sudanese refugees in northern Kenya. The inhabitants of Kakuma camp are slowly dying of malnutrition because their food rations have been cut to starvation level.
11 April 1997
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will undergo radiotherapy for cancer in the United States. Archbishop Tutu said in a statement on 19 March, that after consulting medical specialists in the US and Cape Town, he had decided on a combination of hormone treatment and radiotherapy.
21 March 1997
The Churches in Rwanda have appealed to the global press and electronic media, international and ecumenical authorities, to stop using the ethnic vocabulary "which encloses Rwandans in the shackles of 'Hutu-Tutsi' as this term has become deadly".
21 March 1997
The bishops of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (Anglican) have publicly apologised to homosexual people who have been hurt by the "unacceptable prejudice" against gays and lesbians within the church.
14 March 1997
A proposal to use underground mine shafts as "super maximum security prisons" in South Africa has been slammed by the country's Anglican bishops as callous and offensive.
07 March 1997
The Rt Revd Dinis Sengulane, Bishop of Lebombo, Mozambique, has been made an Honorary Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) by the Queen. According to a communique from the British High Commission in Maputo the award was given in recognition of the Bishop's effort to strengthen Anglo-Mozambique relations and for the involvement by the Bishop in the peace negotiations which led to an end of the civil war in the country.
28 February 1997