The Anglican Consultative Council will meet in Lusaka for its 16th triennial meeting in April, and the secretary general of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, is asking “all our members in every Province, as well as our ecumenical partners, to join us in this prayer as we prepare for the meeting of this Instrument of our Communion.”
25 February 2016
Successful and emerging discipleship work with and by children and young people within the Anglican Communion will be recognised with two new awards. The new Youth and Children Ministry Award will be presented for the first time at this year’s Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, in April.
24 February 2016
Young people who want to spend a year living at Lambeth Palace, the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, as part of a “radical Jesus-centred community of prayer, study and serving local communities” have just under one week to submit their applications.
23 February 2016
The crew of an anti-piracy vessel who were jailed for five years in India for carrying illegal arms must wait to find out whether they have been successful in their bid for bail while an appeal is heard. The Anglican agency Mission to Seafarers is supporting the crew saying that anti-piracy patrols are entitled to carry the weapons under international law.
18 February 2016
The Carbon Fast for Lent developed by the Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN) is generating a lot of interest this year.
17 February 2016
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has used his presidential address to the Church of England’s General Synod to update members on last month’s Primates Meeting and Gathering in Canterbury. He also gave his impression about the current state of the Anglican Communion.
15 February 2016
Senior staff from the Anglican Alliance joined colleagues from the ACT Alliance, Caritas Internationalis, Globethics, Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches in the first meeting of its kind to discuss communication and collaboration in policy engagement, advocacy and action.
15 February 2016
When Muslim bus passengers thwarted an attempt by terrorists to single out and massacre Christian passengers in Kenya in December last year, they not only saved lives; but they may have also “given terrorism-weary Kenyans new inspiration to defy Al Shabaab and pursue peace,” the new issue of the Christian Muslim News Digest, suggests.
08 February 2016
Anglicans around the world are being invited to join an Ash Wednesday service at Lambeth Palace next week – through the social media platform Facebook.
05 February 2016
When the UN Commission on the Status of Women convenes in New York next month to explore women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development it will benefit from the experience and knowledge of some 22 Anglican women from 18 provinces.
03 February 2016