The London Sunday Telegraph ran an article on a new prayer book - "We Too Are Baptised" - for lesbians and gays. The foreword has been written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His text is presented here for your use and for the sake of clarity and accuracy.
22 April 1996
Fourteen mainline Churches in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal have launched an Ecumenical Peacemakers' Programme to help contain political violence in the run-up to the province's local government elections on 29 May.
03 April 1996
For the past four years reports about conflict in the Diocese of Busoga and the Bishop, the Rt Revd Cyprian Bamwoze, have appeared in various papers and news services. The Province has now written the following report
03 April 1996
The death of Archbishop George Browne in February, 1993, left the Episcopal Church of Liberia mired in efforts to reorganise and rebuild in the middle of a war. In a shining example of Christian hope, a special convocation last May elected Suffragan Bishop Edward Neufville II to succeed Archbishop Browne.
04 March 1996
Now that they no longer need to spend their time battling apartheid, South Africa's Churches have found another common enemy - the nation's spiralling crime rate. Crime has overtaken political violence as the major preoccupation of both politicians and the general public. According to official figures, a murder is committed every three minutes in South Africa.
04 March 1996
The Archbishop was speaking in a personal capacity from Cape Town. He was interviewed by the Sunday Programme after he had signed a statement of support for the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. The statement forms part of an advertisement for the movement's 20th birthday.
12 February 1996
Bishop Dinis Sengulane of the Diocese of Lebombo has written to the Anglican Communion office telling people how the Decade of Evangelism has been relaunched in his diocese. See the June edition of Anglican World for more details and photographs.
03 February 1996
The Anglican Church of Uganda is grappling with an acute financial crisis, despite an appeal by President Yoweri Museveni to the Churches to become self-reliant and stop "begging" abroad. A spokesperson for the Church said employees at the Church's headquarters, in Kampala, including Archbishop Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo, had not received their salaries for the months of October and November 1995.
03 February 1996