Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

The meeting of the Standing Committee of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) is currently taking place in the Diocese of Enugu, which will play host to the House of Bishops, House of Clergy and House of Laity.

For more information on this meeting, please visit the Church of Nigeria web site here:

http://www.anglican-nig.org/news1.htm

Between Wednesday 11 August to Sunday 15 August 15 the city of Abuja was the venue for a gathering of Anglican Youth, 'Abuja AYF 2004'.

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His Excellency Omer Mohammed Al Bashir

President Republic of the Sudan

KHARTOUM

Your Excellency

RE: FORCED EVICTION OF ECS FROM ITS GUEST HOUSE AT MOGRAN, KHARTOUM

As Primates of Africa, we write to congratulate your Government and the people of Sudan for the remarkable progress towards a just peace in the Sudan during the recent signing of the peace protocols in Kenya. We pray that God will help us to sustain this precious peace.

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The Episcopal Synod of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), which was held in St. Matthias' Church Wuse, Abuja, on Wednesday, 2 June, 2004, has elected four Clergymen to the vacant sees in the Church. They are:

• The Venerable Kelechi Eze, formerly Director Mission and Evangelism in the Primate's Office Abuja, as Bishop of Ukwa
• The Rt Revd Caleb Maduoma, formerly of Okigwe South, as the Bishop of Ideato (on translation)
• The Venerable Clement Ekpeye, formerly of Holy Trinity Church Nonwa, as the Bishop of the newly-created Diocese of Ahoada
• The Venerable Isaac Olubowale, formerly of St. James' Church Suleja, as the Bishop of the newly-created Diocese of Ekiti-Oke.

Their consecration is fixed for St James' Day, 25 July, 2004 at the Cathedral Church of the Advent Gwarinpa, Abuja.