The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Dr Rowan Williams and Dr John Sentamu, have launched new websites to help project the Archbishops’ beliefs, activities and personalities to a wider audience, with the aim of creating sites that utilise the best in web technology and design.
Lambeth Palace has issued the following statement in response to reports that some Anglican church services in Harare have been disrupted by state officials.
The Archbishop of Cantebury's annual televised New Year Message for 2008 has now been posted on Youtube and can be seen at:
Archbishop’s Pause for Thought on Terry Wogan programme BBC Radio 2
We sing quite a bit about ‘Tidings of comfort and joy’ at this time of year. But it would be a pity if we felt Christmas ought to be a time when we turned our faces away from uncomfortable things in our society. Surely it ought to be a time when we summon up courage to confront a few issues – simply because it’s a time when we are more conscious than ever of the good things that have been given to us, material good things to celebrate with, and also, if you’re a Christian, the biggest gift of all, the birth of Jesus.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has said that the case for action on climate change is a moral as well as a practical one, challenging the world’s rich and powerful nations to act with justice towards future generations and to the world’s poorest.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to make a brief visit to Israel this week to meet with the Chief Rabbis of Israel. Archbishop Williams will meet with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has sent a message to the Bishops of Los Angeles and San Diego expressing his sadness at the devastation brought by the raging fires in California.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has sent a greeting to Islamic communities for the coming festival of Eid, marking the end of Ramadhan.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, today received a copy of a key letter from Muslim scholars and religious leaders addressed to Christian religious leaders. Dr Anas S. Al-Shaikh-Ali, Chair of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, and one of the signatories to the letter, presented it to the Archbishop at Lambeth Palace.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has described as 'heartbreaking and harrowing' a meeting he held in Syria with refugees from Iraq. Over two hundred refugees, mostly members of Christian congregations, met Dr Williams in a Syrian Orthodox monastery at Ma'aret Sednaya, outside the Syrian capital.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has returned from a visit to Armenia, Syria and Lebanon.
In a gruelling schedule of visits, meetings and services he spent time with senior politicians, Church leaders, senior Muslim clerics, refugees and communities and community projects ranging from prison inmates and chaplains in Armenia, to people with learning disabilities living in a L'Arche community in Damascus, and first, second and third generation refugees living in one of the Palestinian camps outside Beirut.
Following on from his visit to the United States the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams will visit Armenia, Syria and Lebanon, from 22nd - 29th September.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has announced a new higher degree programme as an expansion of the Archbishop's Examination in Theology. Applications for PhD and MPhil degrees in Theology will be accepted from early 2008 with the first awards of the new MPhil degrees anticipated in 2012 and Doctorates shortly afterwards. Candidates will be examined to university standards in order to qualify.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is on the front cover of the European and African editions of Time Magazine. In a frank account of the challenges facing the Anglican Communion worldwide, Time Magazine outlines Dr Williams' hopes for the future in the run up to the Lambeth Conferece.
Please find the main story "Saving Grace" here
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630227,00.html
A podcast of the interview itself can be found here
http://i.timeinc.net/time/podcast/archbishop_canterbury/archbishop_canterbury.mp3
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Interview with Lucilla Teoh from the Diocese of Singapore’s Diocesan Digest
Q - Firstly, what are your first impressions of the Anglican Church in Southeast Asia?
A - What strikes me most is the tremendous commitment of the church here to growth. I have been hearing quite a little bit about the outreach of Singapore to Cambodia, Thailand, to the Karen refugees in Thailand, to Nepal, all the work around the whole region. I think it is a wonderful model and I am very impressed with the energy, and the Cathedral seems to be very much. It is at the heart of that energy, thanks to the work of the Dean.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, gave an address at Toynbee Hall, in which he will call for a widening of the debate on multiculturalism beyond narrow considerations of ethnicity or nationality, and to take in arguments about globalisation and commerce.
Prime Minister announces that he will be standing down in June
Responding to the Prime Minister's announcement that he will stand down from 27th June, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, made the following statement from Sri Lanka:
‘Tony Blair has understood as well as any Prime Minister in recent times why religion matters, how faith communities contribute to the common good and why religious extremism should have no place in a progressive society.
Archbishop of Canterbury - Christians should stand for hope in conflict
Christian’s communities in the middle of conflict need to stand for hope, forgiveness, and reconciliation, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. During a visit to Sri Lanka, Archbishop Williams told a packed congregation in the cathedral church of Christ the King in Kurunegala that Christians have to feed those around them by bringing hope:
‘When we find ourselves in the middle of conflict, of suffering, and even of despair, we as Christians have to say ‘we have food to give’. And the food that we have to give is the promise that forgiveness is possible, that reconciliation is possible’.
Archbishop of Canterbury - 'Bishops need stillness'
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that Bishops need to make time for stillness and silence if they are to find the strength to show leadership to the church.
Archbishop Williams was speaking in sermon at the consecration of the new Bishop of West Malaysia, The Rt Revd Ng Moon Hing in St Mary’s Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur on Saturday 5th May. A congregation of almost 900, sitting in the body of the church and its two extensions, heard Archbishop Williams describe life for a bishop as something that should first of all be listening to God:
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will tonight give the inaugaral Zaki Badawi Memorial Lecture at Lambeth Palace. The lecture is entitled 'Islam, Christianity and Pluralism', and will focus on the different attitudes between the two faiths regarding both pluralism as a religious thesis, and pluralism as a social and political reality.
