Bishop David Birney arrived in Panama today to report to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting, bringing delegates up to date on the situation of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda.
04 November 1996
Emerging Provinces of the Anglican Communion will be helped towards membership of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) under guidelines agreed at the Council's meeting in Panama City today, 15 October 1996. Following the guidelines will ensure new Provinces the opportunity to benefit from the advice of the ACC and the experience of other Provinces.
04 November 1996
The issue of homosexuality is not a top priority for the world, the Anglican Consultative Council was told at its meeting in Panama today, 17 October 1996. Poverty, peace and reconciliation come much higher up the agenda, delegates pointed out.
04 November 1996
Welcome to ACC-10. Together with Canon Colin Craston, Chairman of ACC, I greet you all in the name of our Lord and pray that this time together will be a time of blessing as surely as it will be a time of hard work!
30 October 1996
With his employers looking at a budget crisis in the next few days, the Anglican Observer at the United Nations used a hi-tech multi-media presentation to back his impassioned plea to support his ministry among the world's diplomats.
30 October 1996
OCTOBER 11, 1996 - PANAMA CITY, PANAMA - Anglicans from around the world began a 10-day meeting here to help develop a vision for the church in the third Christian millennium. With more than 80 members of the Anglican Consultative Council represent bishops, priests and deacons and lay people from the 36 major branches of the Anglican Church. It has met every three years since 1971.
22 October 1996
Trusting in God's reconciling power, and giving thanks for signs of repentance and spiritual renewal within the Episcopal Church of Rwanda
22 October 1996
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) today passed a resolution which endorses a proposal to help create a new town plan for Bethlehem's Manger Square. Anglicans were asked by the Palestinian National Authority to take part in this restoration of Bethlehem.
19 October 1996
"The next Lambeth Conference will be a defining moment for Anglicanism. It will determine what we are and where we are going," said Archbishop Robin Eames to the representatives at the Anglican Consultative Council. "It will stand or fall on our sense of unity and vision."
15 October 1996
A Tanzanian bishop who is a former Minister for Education in the Tanzanian Government is the new Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council. The Right Reverend John Paterson, Bishop of Auckland in the Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia was elected ACC Vice-Chairman in a series of closely contested ballots on 14 October.
15 October 1996