The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit expressed “profound thanks” on 27 February for the ministry and witness of Pope Benedict XVI as he officially completed his service as head of the Catholic Church.
27 February 2013
BAGUIO CITY, PHILIPPINES—Easter College, one of the Philippine’s two institutions of higher education, celebrated its 107th anniversary on February 8-9, 2013
27 February 2013
Two years after a magnitude-6.3 earthquake decimated Christchurch, New Zealand, and its suburbs on Feb. 22, 2011, the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch helped the community remember the 185 people who died and look to the future.
22 February 2013
New video footage of the interior of the stricken ChristChurch Cathedral shows further deterioration from exposure to the weather, continued aftershocks, and birds.
22 February 2013
“The time is right for the Church to enter into new relationships with our sister churches in Asia, in particular with the Church of the Province of Myanmar,” said Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne Dr Philip Freier, as he began a two-week visit to Myanmar, starting in Yangon.
18 February 2013
The Anglican Alliance are calling for prayers for people affected by an undersea earthquake in the Solomon Islands, triggering a tsunami, killing people and destroying homes on some outlying islands.
07 February 2013
[By Lloyd Ashton for Anglicantaonga] There’s an almost irresistible momentum towards blessings for same-sex couples in church, and for the ordination of folk in those relationships.
06 February 2013
The Anglican Board of Mission has welcomed a change to the 5 Marks of Mission made by the Anglican Consultative Council in late 2012.
24 January 2013
WCC general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit speaking at the Vatican’s inter-religious service in the Ecumenical Centre, Geneva.
23 January 2013
Drawing on the Indian churches’ experience of Christian disunity in the realities of casteism, churches around the world are celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with a particular focus on justice as integral to the unity they seek.
23 January 2013