Convention pledges ongoing support for direct Anglican partnerships
By Matthew Davies, Episcopal News Service
The world’s 80 million Anglicans are much more aware today than they were 10 years ago that they belong to a global communion, a realization that has led to a flourishing of international relationships between the Episcopal Church and other provinces, dioceses and individuals.
Toronto, 17 October (ENInews)--The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) announced that Dennis Smith was re-elected on 13 October president of its board of directors for the next three years.
At its annual meeting in London on September 8th and 9th, over 90 members of the Compass Rose Society, which provides financial support to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council, heard the Bishop of Haiti, the Right Reverend Jean Zaché Duracin, say of this year’s earthquake, “in just 35 seconds, what we had built up in over 200 years was completely destroyed.”
Pope Benedict XVI’s State Visit to Britain in September raises questions about the relationship between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Churches today. This in turn poses other questions about how Anglicanism developed, where it fits in alongside the other Churches of Christendom, and how it is working alongside other Christians at home and overseas.
Compass Rose Society President Bishop Philip Poole has announced that the Right Reverend Jean Zaché Duracin, Bishop of Haiti, will address the Society's 2010 Annual General Meeting.
"Volcanic eruption won’t stop us working to bring Lutherans and Anglicans closer to full communion," says Commission co-secretary.
Most of the 130 primates, bishops, clergy, senior lay leaders, associates and observers have now arrived for the five-day Encounter which starts today, Monday 19th April.
The Portuguese version of the Anglican Communion Covenant is now available online here
The final text of the Covenant was sent to the Provinces of the Communion for their consideration at the end of December 2009, and it is being translated into some of the other languages spoken most widely across the Communion. Spanish and French translations are being prepared, and will be released soon.
Friday 01 January 2010
In his BBC New Year Message the Archbishop of Canterbury sets out that in this global society we now inhabit "risk and suffering are everybody's problem, the needs of our neighbours are the needs of the whole human family."
The November 2009 issue of the Digest of Christian-Muslim relations, which is produced by the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns in fulfilment of the mandate given to it by the 1998 Lambeth Conference, is now available on this website at: http://nifcon.anglicancommunion.org/digest/docs/digest10.cfm
This issue looks at news from Pakistan and the misuse of the Blasphemy Laws; reports of Interfaith meetings in Accra, Geneva and Washington; the Pew Forum report Mapping the Muslim Global Population; an update on the situation in Jos, Nigeria; Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa celebrates fifty years of Interfaith work; resource on Muslims in Europe and, in depth, at the situation in Malaysia.
For further information or to request a copy of the digest by email (or for exceptional reasons in print form) please contact: suminder.duggal@aco.org
A short film showing the work of Anglican churches in Swaziland, Malawi and Uruguay in combating the effects of HIV/AIDS has just been produced by the British based world mission agency USPG: Anglicans in World Mission.
The July 2009 issue of the Digest of Christian-Muslim relations, which is produced by the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns in fulfilment of the mandate given to it by the 1998 Lambeth Conference, is now available on this website at: http://nifcon.anglicancommunion.org/digest/docs/digest09.cfm
Easter Messages from:
Dr Phillip Aspinall – Anglican Church of Australia, Archbishop of Brisbane
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori -The Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (IEAB)
The Most Revd Alan Harper, OBE, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
The Anglican Church of Canada
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has lent his voice to Earth Hour's global call for action on climate change.
“Climate change is the greatest human induced crisis facing the world today. It is totally indiscriminate of race, culture and religion. It affects every human being on the planet,” said the Archbishop.
With over 500 cities in 75 countries already signed up to take part in the lights out campaign, Earth Hour 2009 is anticipated to be one of the greatest social movements the world has ever witnessed.
Booklet added to the Holy Land Section of the website and updates for the Anglican Cycle of Prayer.
NIFCON (the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns) was asked by the 1998 Lambeth Conference ‘to study and evaluate Muslim-Christian relations and report regularly to the Anglican Consultative Council.’
'Watching the news, I could not help but join in the tears of Jesus, who wept over the land of his birth, and prayed for peace to reign' the Archbishop of Cape Town said.
Presiding Bishop's Christmas Message 2008
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued the following message for Christmas 2008
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it (John 1:5).
'I am' ....Journeying with the Gospel of John through Lambeth, the set of Bible Studies written by an international team of biblical scholars for the use of the bishops and spouses at the Lambeth Conference are now available in PDF format on the Lambeth Conference website
http://www.lambethconference.org/lc2008/resources/pdf/I_am_Lambeth_booklet.pdf
