Anglican Communion News Service - Digest - ACO

Awareness of Anglican Communion radically changed in a decade

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:54:00 GMT

Convention pledges ongoing support for direct Anglican partnerships By Matthew Davies, Episcopal News Service The world’s 80 million Anglicans are much more aware today than they were 10 years ago that they belong to a global communion, a ... [More]

WACC board chooses officers, reviews strategic plan

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:35:00 GMT

Toronto, 17 October (ENInews)--The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) announced that Dennis Smith was re-elected on 13 October president of its board of directors for the next three years. [More]

Post-quake Haiti "reborn" Bishop tells Compass Rose Society's AGM

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:36:00 GMT

At its annual meeting in London on September 8th and 9th, over 90 members of the Compass Rose Society, which provides financial support to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council, heard the Bishop of Haiti, the Right Revere... [More]

Preparing for the Pope's Visit - Continuity, Change and Collaboration

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:33:00 GMT

Pope Benedict XVI’s State Visit to Britain in September raises questions about the relationship between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Churches today. This in turn poses other questions about how Anglicanism developed, where... [More]

Bishop of Haiti to speak at annual general meeting of the Compass Rose Society

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:59:00 GMT

Compass Rose Society President Bishop Philip Poole has announced that the Right Reverend Jean Zaché Duracin, Bishop of Haiti, will address the Society's 2010 Annual General Meeting. [More]

Anglican-Lutheran communion meeting proceeds despite air travel ban

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:55:00 GMT

"Volcanic eruption won’t stop us working to bring Lutherans and Anglicans closer to full communion," says Commission co-secretary.

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Fourth Anglican Global South to South Encounter begins in Singapore

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:55:00 GMT

Most of the 130 primates, bishops, clergy, senior lay leaders, associates and observers have now arrived for the five-day Encounter which starts today, Monday 19th April. [More]

Portuguese version of the Anglican Communion Covenant

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:43:00 GMT

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 in... [More]

The Archbishop of Canterbury's New Year Message

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:45:00 GMT

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 famil... [More]

New Issue of the Christian-Muslim digest is now available online

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:17:00 GMT

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 w...

New resource on church ministry with HIV/AIDS available

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:16:00 GMT

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. [More]

New Issue of the Christian-Muslim digest is now available online

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:24:00 GMT

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... [More]

Easter Messages from around the Communion

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:26:00 GMT

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,... [More]

Earth Hour

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:26:00 GMT

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 af... [More]

New materials on the ACO website

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:15:00 GMT

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