After more than four years successfully leading Anglicare SA Dr Lynn Arnold will leave his position of Chief Executive Officer on June 30 to begin full-time study of theology and seek ordination.
By refereeing 45 rounds of a 120-round boxing match in Sydney, a Filipino-Australian journalist helped Anglican priest - Father Dave "Fighting Padre" Smith - set a Guinness World Record.
Australia’s Anglican bishops, meeting in Melbourne last month, have urged the Federal Government to persist with reforms to help problem gamblers and their families.
Two leading philosophers will discuss the topic ‘The role of reason in faith and unbelief’ in a public conversation at St Paul’s Cathedral on 12 April. Professor Peter Singer of Princeton and Melbourne Universities, and an atheist, and the Revd Professor Brendan Purcell, of University College, Dublin, and a Roman Catholic priest, will engage in conversation as part of the Anglican Church’s response to the global atheist convention being held in Melbourne 13-15 April.
Archbishop Philip Freier has asked for prayers for Bishop Keith Rayner, who has had a mild stroke.
The Right Rev’d John Stead appointed as Bishop of Willochra
Adelaide Archbishop Dr Jeffrey Driver has expressed his congratulations to the Diocese of Willochra and his delight at the appointment of the Right Rev’d John Stead as the new Bishop of Willochra.
Australians who want to support justice for women on International Women’s Day (March 8) should be extremely concerned about the impact of climate change on the Pacific’s most vulnerable women, says the CEO of Anglicord – Anglican Overseas Aid.
It's 20 years ago today (March 7 1992) that women were admitted to the priesthood in Australia.
Pastors and teachers need to understand science and faith so they can best serve their parishioners and students, the reverend Dr Graham Buxton says.
After 25 years of service to Anglican parishes of the Riverina, Reverend Karen Kime has become the first indigenous woman to be appointed an Archdeacon at an ordination service in Goulburn on Saturday.
Archbishop Philip Freier says there is a disconnection in Australia between many features of society, such as the welfare system, and their Christian origins.
When the elderly ladies at the Good Samaritan clinic in Kenya were unable to get anyone to fund a well, they didn’t give up. They needed to address the burden of carting water for older women and those with HIV & AIDS. So they began to save a little bit of money out of their income, and were then able to access funds from the Anglicord income generating scheme to fund five rainwater tanks.
Easter Sunday could be stripped of its public holiday status under possible changes to holiday laws.
By Anglicord www.anglicord.org.au
Human welfare needs to be balanced against the need to maintain rivers for future generations, according to the Chair of the Anglican Church’s Environmental Working Group in Australia.
Australia’s only nuclear reactor and scientists on both sides of the continent are contributing to international research into an Anglican Bible in Perth that is more than 450 years old.
Archbishop Jeffrey Driver is pleased to announce the Episcopal Ordination of The Venerable Dr Timothy Harris to be Bishop in the Diocese of Adelaide.
Anglicord’s “Women Die Waiting” campaign, which highlights the lack of access women in Gaza have to appropriate breast cancer treatment, has received cross-party support in the Australian Senate.
From the Office of the Very Rev’d Dr Jeffrey Driver – Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide
Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, Jeffrey Driver, has called on South Australia’s politicians to begin the conversation about Adelaide’s urban ecology.
Chris Calcino, The Chronicle
Two Anglican churches in Toowoomba are set to receive facelifts expected to cost $3.4 million.
By Jane Still, Communications & Fundraising Manager, Anglicord
The government and people of Australia have been issued a prophetic challenge by The Environment Working Group of the General Synod (the national parliament) of the Anglican Church of Australia, to take up their moral responsibility to reduce carbon emissions, and it says paying for the cost of carbon pollution will be a necessary part of that action.
