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One of the World's Preeminent Choral ensembles to tour U.S and Canada

One of the World's Preeminent Choral ensembles to tour U.S and Canada

One of the world's preeminent choral ensembles will tour the U.S. and Canada in 1999, performing in some of the most distinguished venues in major cities and offering a rich, diverse program of choral masterworks spanning the centuries.

01 December 1998

New Province for Anglicans in Hong Kong

New Province for Anglicans in Hong Kong

The newest official Province of the world-wide Anglican Communion, the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, the Hong Kong Anglican Church, will be inaugurated in a colourful liturgy on 25 October 1998.

17 October 1998

Britain's Millennium Resolution never intended to be a Christian prayer

Britain's Millennium Resolution never intended to be a Christian prayer

The Millennium Resolution calls on the British public to make a new start in the year 2000, but it does not mention God because it is not a prayer, its ecumenical authors declare.

03 August 1998

Reconciliation and Peace, the role of the Faith Communities

Reconciliation and Peace, the role of the Faith Communities

I am very conscious of the honour done to me by this invitation to address Chatham House and I am grateful to the Council for their encouragement to me to explore this particular topic. The Chairman suggested that this was a rare subject for a Chatham House talk. This was obviously true for the past but I wonder whether this is not a theme whose time has come

26 June 1998

Address by The Revd Canon John L. Peterson at Hereford Cathedral

Address by The Revd Canon John L. Peterson at Hereford Cathedral

Vocation and ministry, that is what the Lambeth Conference 1998 is all about. 800 bishops will gather in Canterbury this coming July. The largest group ever assembled for a Lambeth Conference to discuss four areas of our calling as Christians, especially as we consider the call and vocation of bishops in the Church of God as they lead the people of God. 

09 June 1998

Statement issued by the "Friends of Peace" group from Sri Lanka at the conclusion of their two week visit to the UK

Statement issued by the "Friends of Peace" group from Sri Lanka at the conclusion of their two week visit to the UK

To the people of Sri Lanka, who recently experienced their 50th anniversary of independence amidst tight security, the 15 year old internal war has been a continuing tragedy. This is a war that has claimed over 50,000 lives and led to over a million refugees and internally displaced persons.

22 May 1998

Britain: 50,000 people protest to G8 about debt issue

Britain: 50,000 people protest to G8 about debt issue

More than 50,000 people from all over Britain and abroad arrived in Birmingham on Saturday 16th May to take part in a protest against Third World debt.

22 May 1998

"Getting Connected"

"Getting Connected"

Complete Text of Bishop Holloway's speech at St. Alban's, London

11 May 1998

Protesters storm Cathedral Pulpit

Protesters storm Cathedral Pulpit

Several protesters from the extremist gay rights group Outrage stormed the pulpit at Canterbury Cathedral as the Archbishop, Dr. George Carey, began his Easter sermon. The full Cathedral heard a spokesman for the activists shout at the congregation about their lesbian and gay rights for about three minutes before security people forcibly removed the aggressive protesters who literally surrounded the Archbishop in the small pulpit in the crowded nave.

12 April 1998

Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter Sermon

Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter Sermon

'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, he is risen. Remember how he told you while he was still with you in Galilee.' Then, Luke tells us, 'they remembered his words'.

09 April 1998