Rev Dr Richard Rodgers Secretary of Light and Hope for Sudan is Keeping a 40 day vigil on bread and water outside the Foreign Office in London from Thursday 26th September to 5th November requesting a British government initiative to settle the 40 years of misery and war in the Sudan.
27 September 1996
After days of cold rain and high wind the sun came out on a perfect spring day in Capetown for the Enthronement of the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman as the new Archbishop of Capetown and Primate of the Anglican church of the Province of Southern Africa.
27 September 1996
Holy Cross Day, Saturday 14th September 1996 in the Cathedral of St George the Martyr, Cape Town... I greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am deeply humbled and greatly overwhelmed by the confidence that the Diocese of Cape Town and the Church of the Province of Southern Africa have placed in me.
24 September 1996
The Anglican Church of Uganda has added its voice to the chorus of protests against lottery games sanctioned by the Ugandan Government. The Church said the lottery games, which have recently come to dominate public life in this east African country, were corrupting Ugandan society.
02 September 1996
More than 30 clergywomen from all dioceses of the Anglican Church of Uganda have accused their male counterparts of discriminating against them and relegating them to secondary positions in the Church hierarchy.
02 September 1996
An Anglican Studies Centre has opened at Bishop McAllister College in Kyogyera in West Ankole Diocese. The Centre will serve the whole of the province and its aim is to strengthen Ugandan's understanding of their Anglican heritage in the African context.
02 September 1996
The Rt Revd Cyprian Bamwoze of Busoga Diocese has been forced to retire. The Ugandan House of Bishops Meeting in late July made the decision after years of conflict between the Bishop and his diocese.
02 September 1996
Christian Solidarity International, a Christian human rights group, visited Sudan recently and have expressed their fears that there could be a famine in north east Sudan.
02 September 1996
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chairman of a commission probing atrocities committed during the apartheid era and, until recently, head of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa - has taken on another role: campaigning in Atlanta during the Olympic Games on behalf of Cape Town's bid to stage the Games in 2004.
02 September 1996
A gunman tracked down by police admitted he had planned to kidnap Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chairman of the government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating atrocities committed during the apartheid era in South Africa.
02 September 1996