(ENS) The occasion of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr (4th April) provides all of us with an opportunity to pause and reflect on the current status of race relations in America and in our churches. While we offer thanksgivings for the contribution of Dr. King's legacy as a non-violent advocate for racial equality, we might best serve his memory with a commitment to continuing in the journey he led so faithfully.
08 April 1998
(ENS) Episcopal Churches appear to have escaped major damage from El Niño's lashing storms along the West Coast of the United States and in Latin America. But thousands of dollars in aid are being funnelled through church agencies to assist victims of this winter's vicious storms.
01 April 1998
(ENS) In the lush surroundings of Cocoyoc, a 16th century sugar plantation-turned-hotel, a diverse group of bishops and church leaders from New York to California spent three days in February, immersed in Hispanic history and culture, discussing "Anglicanism and the Hispanic Experience
01 April 1998
(ENS)John Maury Allin, the 23rd Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1973-1985, died 6 March, 1998, after suffering a stroke while undergoing treatment for cancer. He was 76.
19 March 1998
(ENS) The Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA) and the Episcopal Church have appointed teams to explore avenues for better understanding in the wake of last summer's failure to approve a Concordat of Agreement establishing full communion.
23 February 1998
The yellow stucco church stood on a corner. A tall man strode out from under a tree. He hailed us. We stopped the car and I noticed the ragged T-shirt hanging on his thin frame.
23 February 1998
(ALC)In an unprecedented act in the country's religious history, Ecuadorian Cardinal Bernardino Echeverria offered a sermon in the Anglican Church's El Salvador Cathedral.
30 January 1998
(ALC/ACNS ) Christians, Hindus and Muslims gathered at the National Park Stadium in Georgetown, Guyana's on Sunday 11 January for an interfaith service for peace and atonement.
23 January 1998
Following the devastating ice storms hitting Canada the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada issued the following letter to the Canadian bishops.
18 January 1998
The Canadian federal Government has taken a useful first step in apologising to indigenous peoples for the harm they suffered at residential schools, but it must remain open to other remedies that may be required or sought, according to Archdeacon Jim Boyles, General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada.
18 January 1998