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Global and local: Making the difference

Global and local: Making the difference

'Justice and celebration belong together, in the prophets and the Gospels.' 'God's plan is one in which all human beings are called to be both givers and receivers.' Two brief examples of remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, as he addressed the World Mission Conference held 23-25 November 2004 in Swanwick, England

14 December 2004

Southwark letter to the UK Chancellor on poverty

Southwark letter to the UK Chancellor on poverty

Further to your 2 December 2004 pre-budget report, I am writing to you, in my capacity as Vice Chairman for Community and Public Affairs of the Church of England's Mission and Public Affairs Council, regarding the Government's plans for the focus of the UK Presidency of the 2005 G8.

10 December 2004

Muslims and Christians to debate 'war on terror

Muslims and Christians to debate 'war on terror

Muslims and Christians will meet to debate the 'war on terror' at a ground-breaking meeting aimed at building bridges between the two communities 26 November in Leeds. Taking part in 'Trust or Terror', being held at the Building Blocks Centre in Beeston, will be two leading religious leaders, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, and the Chair of the Leeds Muslim Forum.

22 November 2004

Vicar of Nazareth meets with Walsingham

Vicar of Nazareth meets with Walsingham

Christian pilgrims should return to the Holy Land to support the mission of Palestinian Christians to their own young people - the Revd Samuel Barthoum, Vicar of Christ Church, Nazareth told over 35 Walsingham pilgrims from the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Nazareth this weekend.

22 November 2004

On Fallujah, Bishops of Coventry and Bath & Wells

On Fallujah, Bishops of Coventry and Bath & Wells

Joint Statement from The Bishop of Coventry and The Bishop of Bath and Wells. We write as two Anglican Bishops who visited Iraq in 1999 and who witnessed the terrible suffering of the Iraqi people under the double insult of Saddams brutal dictatorship and the UN sanctions regime. 

17 November 2004

Murdered hostage remembered in Cathedral service

Murdered hostage remembered in Cathedral service

Liverpool Cathedral in England held a memorial service on Saturday 13 November for the murdered British hostage, Kenneth Bigley, who was kidnapped in mid-September by a group in Iraq calling for the release of prisoners. He was killed some three weeks later.

15 November 2004

Church of England warns on human genetics

Church of England warns on human genetics

The Church of England has warned that human genetics should be developed for the purpose of therapy only, and not for the enhancement of the foetus, in a submission by the Church's Mission and Public Affairs Council to the consultation Choosing the Future, run by the Human Genetics Commission.

11 November 2004

Women Bishops in the Church of England?

Women Bishops in the Church of England?

Women Bishops in the Church of England?, the report of the House of Bishops' Working Party on Women in the Episcopate, chaired by the Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, was published yesterday

02 November 2004

Archbishop commissions new USPG General Secretary

Archbishop commissions new USPG General Secretary

Any mission agency's role is to represent the community of God with a human face. USPG's mission is to show the human face of God to our world, that struggles with poverty and injustice,' said the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, at a commissioning service in London on Monday to commission the Rt Revd Michael Doe as the new General Secretary of the Anglican mission agency USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel).

02 November 2004

Statement from Lambeth Palace on the 'network' stories

Statement from Lambeth Palace on the 'network' stories

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, has had a wide range of meetings and conversations with many groups and individuals on all sides in relation to the current concerns in the Anglican Communion

24 September 2004