For the first two weeks in March, the Mothers' Union will be represented at the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and will be involved in discussions with governments, other NGOs and women on the progress made in achieving gender equality worldwide.
03 March 2005
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, has welcomed the announcement that HRH Prince of Wales and Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles are to marry. In a statement from Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Rowan said...
10 February 2005
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, has confirmed that, with great regret, he has today received and accepted Lady Brentford's resignation as Third Church Estates Commissioner to take effect from the end of May this year.
03 February 2005
n 2005 the MU will be backing the MakePovertyHistory campaign, a mass coalition of activists committed to eradicating poverty through the three critical areas of trade, debt and aid.
02 February 2005
Do you have strong memories related to times when you have heard this prayer or made this prayer? Does it particularly comfort or inspire you? Do you remember a time when you recited this prayer for a special reason? Perhaps you have a story about Kyrie Eleison
01 February 2005
The General Synod of the Church of England will debate a Christian vision of a greener world at its forthcoming meeting in London on Thursday 17 February.
28 January 2005
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, attended solemn vespers on Friday 14 January at the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral and preached at the service at the invitation of the Cardinal Archbishop of England, HE Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, to mark Christian Unity Week. It was his first official visit to the cathedral
17 January 2005
In a move that marks a renewed vision and vigour and renewed enthusiasm and optimism for its work, Affirming Catholicism, a progressive Anglican Catholic organisation in the Anglican Communion, has appointed the Revd Richard Jenkins as its first full time director
12 January 2005
want to take this opportunity to thank you all for all you have been doing, and continue to do, in encouraging giving and the offering of prayers during the last two weeks.
11 January 2005
Thought-provoking new research reveals the economic and social value of England's Anglican cathedrals. New research has revealed that nearly nine million people visited England's Anglican cathedrals in 2003 - two million more than visited Blackpool Pleasure Beach, five million more than went on the London Eye and almost twice as many as visited the British Museum in the same year.
15 December 2004