Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

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.

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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."

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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.

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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 

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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

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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.

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Booklet added to the Holy Land Section of the website and updates for the Anglican Cycle of Prayer.

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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.’

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'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. 

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Christmas messages from around the Anglican Communion

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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). 

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'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

Bishop Christopher Epting, Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations Program Officer for The Episcopal Church and Mary Reath, Governor of the Anglican Centre, will lead a guided exploration of Growing Together in Unity and Mission, the agreed statement of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told the annual meeting of the Compass Rose Society (CRS) in November that the tensions and ruptures within our Communion are not going to be resolved in a hurry. "Deep wounds heal slowly," the Archbishop said.

The Archbishop spoke at length about the Lambeth Conference 2008 and viewed a "photo cinema" presentation of Lambeth images from the Communications department. The Most Reverend Clive Handford and the Right Reverend Victoria Matthews also gave CRS members an update of the work of the Windsor Continuation Group and matters of the Anglican Covenant.

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Faith leaders "should shout from the rooftops that AIDS is not a punishment from God but a medical condition which is preventable," Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, former primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, has told the World Aids Campaign.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has awarded the Cross of St Augustine to members of the 2008 Lambeth Conference Design Group at a ceremony at Lambeth Palace.

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Canon John L Peterson, Washington Cathedral

The Rt Revd David Beetge

When we received word last Friday in Jerusalem that Bishop David Beetge had died, there was total disbelief. Kirsten and I had spent a wonderful evening with Carol and David at the Lambeth Conference and although David was under treatment for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, he looked great and was "vintage" David. It was a night of lots of laughter and recollection of the "good old days."

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From the Anglican Communion Office, London

The 2008 Lambeth Conference involved the participation of some 680 bishops and 3000 participants overall. From Cathedral to parishes and volunteers all over the UK, support for 2008 meeting was indeed generous.

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AWNN Third Issue can be found here: http://www.aco.org/resources/aw/online/index.cfm

The latest issue of AWNN is now online. The theme of the current edition digests Limbering Up for Lambeth.

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