The World Council of Churches led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for eight young Christians from all over the world, earlier this month.
16 June 2017
A clergyman who worked in New Zealand as a doctor in the 1990s is returning there as the new Bishop of Dunedin. Revd Dr Steven Benford, currently serving in the Diocese of London, was a doctor for twenty nine years.
16 June 2017
New Hampshire Bishop Robert Hirschfeld has rowed on the Connecticut River for years. It once was a sort of industrial “sewer” but has since been cleaned up and restored to “a place of stunning beauty,” he said. Bishop Hirschfeld intends to show it also can be a place of worship and an inspiration for prayer.
13 June 2017
The Anglican Communion Office in London is advertising for a Director for Finance and Resources
13 June 2017
The church of St Luke in Ras al Khaimah – one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates - has a new Urdu-language, Anglican congregation.
12 June 2017
An estimated 900 worshippers packed into the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul to celebrate the evening ordination of the Rt Rev Dr Eleanor “Ellie” Sanderson as Assistant Bishop for the Diocese of Wellington.
12 June 2017
As the drowsy heat of afternoon descends, traffic on the footpath leading out of the village slows to a trickle. But small groups of women and children still regularly walk up to fill their large plastic buckets from the stainless-steel pump at the top of a rise of land overlooking a rice paddy.
09 June 2017
The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church has voted in favour of allowing gay couples to marry in church. The vote means that the Church’s canon law will be changed - to remove the definition that marriage is between a man and a woman.
08 June 2017
“Bangladeshi women are subjected to violence throughout their lives, which prevents them from realising their own dignity and rights as human beings."
08 June 2017
Bellringers at cathedrals and churches around the world are being invited to join a worldwide day of music organised by the BBC.
07 June 2017