Five full days of activities are planned for the 19th staging of the Anglican Schools Festival in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
The Archbishop of York, The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, will today preach at a service at the Webster Memorial Church in Kingston, to mark the beginning of Jamaica’s celebration of 50 years of independence.
From the Nassau Guardian
Archbishop: "History should be seen as a book of lessons."
As Anglicans celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Diocese in The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and what it measn to be of their faith and Christian, they were told their history should be seen as a book of lessons from whcih they can gather some insights that can make them more effective in their mission and ministry today.
"Know that whatever happened yesterday or yesteryear - be it good, bad or indifferent - can still be a lesson for us today about how we can deal with today so we may have no regrets about tomorrow," said The Reverend John Holder, arcbhbishop of the West Indies and bishop of Barbados at the service held at Christ Church Cathedral. "Our history should be a lesson that can help us not repeat the mistakes of yesterday, but to carve out a better tomorrow."
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From www.go-jamaica.com
The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is expressing alarm at what they say is the intention of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) to 'confiscate' Nuttall Hospital land.
From the Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago
“An initiative by and for young people, to stir things up a bit, and wake the church up”- this is how 22-year-old Keisha Baisden, Director of the newly-launched Music School, describes the initiative.
By Canida Dames, The Nassau Guardian
The offices of St. Agnes Anglican Church were ransacked and a safe with important documents and money stolen sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, according to its rector, Archdeacon I. Ranfurly Brown.
By Glyn Paflin, Church Times
THE Archbishop of the West Indies since 2009, Dr John Holder, is awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, announced last weekend. His award is for services to religion (Barbados list).
By Cecily Asson Sunday, www.newsday.co.tt
With so much competition for the public’s attention, persons at all levels of leadership including the clergy, are often tempted to go overboard in what they say and do, all be it in the full glare of the media, Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies Reverend Dr John WD Holder said yesterday.
By Angela Pidduck, Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday newspaper.
Two nominations have been received by the Diocesan Secretary, Sonia Noel, for the post of Coadjutor Bishop of the Anglican Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago. They are Canon Claude Berkley, rector of All Saints Parish, and the Venerable Archdeacon Edwin Primus, rector of St Stephen’s Parish and Archdeacon (South).
Fourteen bishops of the Anglican Church in the Province of the West Indies, meeting in the House of Bishops and Provincial Standing Committee in Nassau, Bahamas, November 11-14, under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of the West Indies, the Most Rev Drexel Gomez, have registered their opposition to the death penalty, while calling for intervention by government and cooperation of the Church as part of civil society, to deal with the situation which facilitates the upsurge of crime and violence in the Caribbean region.
Archbishop Rt Revd Drexel W. Gomez speaks to Jamaicans via radio Power 106FM on Saturday evening, just after Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller made a national address, as the Caribbean Island prepares for a direct hit of hurricane Dean on Saturday evening.
Songs by late reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, both devout Rastafarians, will be included in a new collection of Anglican church hymnals in Jamaica.
Marley's ‘One Love’ and Tosh's ‘Psalm 27’ will be the first reggae tunes to appear in songbooks alongside traditional worship music on the island that gave birth to reggae, said church leaders preparing a new collection of hymns.
The Revd Ernle Gordon, a church spokesman, said Friday that members of the Anglican Church of Jamaica were enthusiastic about including the reggae musicians' music in the hymnals, despite their sometimes vocal opposition to Christianity.
‘They may have been antichurch, but they were not anti-God or antireligion,’ said Gordon, adding that the songs would help modernize Jamaica's hymnals.
Marley and Tosh, who died in the 1980s after becoming international music stars, practiced Rastafarianism, a faith founded by descendants of slaves in response to black oppression.
Article by Associated Press
The momentum and excitement in anticipation of the first Church Games set for October 11-21 is building very quickly.
The games officially got underway on Saturday with a Cross Run that is similar to the Commonwealth or the Olympic games torch run where a representative from each of denomination had the opportunity to run with the cross as it made its way around the city before ending at the Sir Kendal Isaacs Gym.
