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Archbishop of Canterbury calls for commitment to sustainable peace in Sudan

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has issued a statement in support of today’s ‘Sudan Day of Action’ which calls for a renewed commitment to sustainable peace in Sudan. The Sudan Day of Action, organised by Baroness Cox and the Sudan Action Group, aims to raise awareness for the desperate plight of the people of Sudan. 

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Archbishop of Canterbury: Easter Sermon - 'Proof of the resurrection has to be lived, not argued'

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams reminds Christians that belief in God is about living in the reality of faith and the unselfish life, and not about opinions or philosophical proofs. In his Easter sermon delivered at Canterbury Cathedral, Dr Williams identifies St Paul as an early example of someone living the brave reality of faith, putting his life at risk for the sake of his belief and witness to the resurrection:

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Pastoral Visitors Briefing Seminar

Following the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group to the Archbishop of Canterbury (which was published at the Primates Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, in February 2009) the initial group of Pastoral Visitors called for by the Windsor Continuation Group in their Report and commended by the Primates Meeting in their Communiqué (para 15) met for a briefing session at Virginia Theological Seminary from 25-28 February.

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Archbishop of Canterbury vists Greek Orthodox Leader in Alexandria

The Archbishop of Canterbury has received a warm welcome from His Beatitude Theodoros II,  the Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and Africa, during a visit to his residence in Alexandria.

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Archbishop of Canterbury's New Year Message - the treasure that is our fellow human beings

It’s always a relief to have a bit of space after the busyness of Christmas to relax at home and mull over the past 12 months and the hopes and possibilities of the year ahead. The prospect of this coming year, though, is one that produces a lot of anxiety and insecurity for countless people. There are fears about disappearing savings, lost jobs, house repossessions and worse. While the headlines are often about the big figures, it’s the human cost that makes it real for us.

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Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas sermon 2008

In his Christmas sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury says that one of the lessons of the coming of Christ is that people shouldn't waste time waiting for larger-than-life heroes to bring comprehensive and total solutions to the ills of the world.

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Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas Message to the Anglican Communion

Human beings, left to themselves, have imagined God in all sorts of shapes; but - although there were one or two instances, in Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, of gods being pictured as boys - it took Christianity to introduce the world to the idea of God in the form of a baby: in the form of complete dependence and fragility, without power or control. 

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Archbishop of Canterbury's World AIDS Day video

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has recorded a video message to mark the 20th annual World AIDS day on December 1st 2008. The video sees the Archbishop talk about the Church’s worldwide involvement in care and education surrounding HIV and AIDS, and calls for faith leaders to ‘encourage and support’ what is being done by listening to those who work on the front lines

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Archbishop of Canterbury expresses shock and outrage at atrocities in Mumbai

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has today written to the High Commissioner of India, Mr Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, expressing his shock and outrage at the appalling atrocities in Mumbai and offering on behalf of the whole Anglican Communion prayers for those who have lost loved ones...

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UK Faith leaders join students on visit to former Nazi death camp in Poland

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams with the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, invited representatives from all the religious communities to join the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz Project tomorrow on their one day visit to the former Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.

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Communique from A Common Word conference

At a press conference today, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and His Excellency Dr Ali Gomaa, presented the communiqué from ‘A Common Word’ conference, a meeting of leading Muslim and Christian clerics and scholars.

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Archbishop of Canterbury calls for greater co-operation to meet Millennium Development Goals

On the eve of the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Millennium Development Goals in New York, the Archbishop of Canterbury has underlined the commitment of the Anglican Church to continue to work for the eradication of poverty.

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Archbishop of Canterbury meets with Chief Rabbis of Israel

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday met with the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger. The following communiqué was signed: The third meeting of the Chief Rabbis of Israel and the Archbishop of Canterbury was held on 9th September 2008

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Archbishop's Pastoral Letter to Bishops of the Anglican Communion

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has today sent a letter to the bishops of the Anglican Communion, setting out his personal reflections on the Lambeth Conference.

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Archbishop of Canterbury responds to GAFCON statement

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has responded to the final declaration of the Global Anglican Future Conference with the following statement...The Final Statement from the GAFCON meeting in Jordan and Jerusalem contains much that is positive and encouraging about the priorities of those who met for prayer and pilgrimage in the last week.

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Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter

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The Archbishop of Canterbury preached at a service to mark the 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter to the Inns of Court, at the Temple Church in London. 'Not far removed from Mount Olympus, but somewhat nearer to the blessed regions of the West, is the most favoured abode of Themis. 

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Archbishops call on UN for mediation and protection in Zimbabwe

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The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop Cape Town yesterday spoke to Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, to express their grave concern about the increasing violence of what appears to be a sustained campaign against the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury - plans to challenge global governments to tackle poverty

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams , has today announced plans to mount an unprecedented mass walk of bishops and other faith leaders through central London during the forthcoming Lambeth Conference to demonstrate the Anglican Communion’s determination to help end extreme poverty across the globe.

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Archbishop of Canterbury's Pentecost Letter to the Bishops of the Anglican Communion

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has sent an open letter to the bishops of the Anglican Communion, in advance of the Lambeth Conference. The Feast of Pentecost is a time when we give thanks that God, through the gift of the Holy Spirit, makes us able to speak to each other and to the whole world of the wonderful things done in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

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Archbishop of Canterbury - Prayers for Burma

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has written to the Anglican church in Burma following the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in the area of the Irrawaddy River Delta. In the letter to Archbishop Stephen Than Myint Oo, Dr Williams assures the church of the prayers of the Anglican Communion and commends the rescue operation now underway

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Archbishop of Canterbury - 'friendly meeting' with Pope Benedict

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has described his private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI yesterday in the Vatican as ‘friendly and informal’. They spent almost half an hour in the Pope’s study discussing matters of common interest.

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Archbishop of Canterbury - 'Religious Faith and Human Rights'

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The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams gave a lecture yesterday at the London School of Economics entitled 'Religious Faith and Human Rights'. Dr Williams sets out a fresh and original vision of how religious tradition – Christianity in particular – can help ground human rights thinking in ways that protect human life from violence, abuse or inequality.

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Archbishops of Canterbury and York issue Joint Statement on Zimbabwe

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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a joint statement this morning concerning the deteriorating situation of ordinary people in Zimbabwe calling for “a civil society movement that both gives voice to those who demand an end to the mayhem that grows out of injustice, poverty, exclusion and violence”.

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Archbishop of Canterbury - Society still needs religion

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The Archbishop of Canterbury will tonight give a lecture in which he acknowledges the rise in interest in spirituality, particularly in the Western World, but underlines the crucial role traditional religious allegiance continues to play in a genuinely plural society.

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Archbishop of Canterbury condemns recent violence against lesbian and gay people

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In response to reports of violence and threats towards Christians involved in the debate on human sexuality, the Archbishop of Canterbury has given the following statement: “The threats recently made against the leaders of Changing Attitudes are disgraceful.

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Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter Day Sermon

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'The last enemy to be overcome is death' (I Cor 15.26)

Your hair and your nails may keep growing for a while after you die; but nothing else does. Death is when growing stops - the routine ways in which your body repairs itself and grows fresh tissue, and the ways in which the mind and heart stop developing. We know the suffering that is caused when the mind and heart have already apparently stopped responding even before physical death - the agonizing spectacle of vegetative states or dementia.

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Archbishop's shock and sorrow at murder of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has expressed his deep shock and sorrow at the appalling murder of Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul

 

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Archbishop of Canterbury appoints Windsor Continuation Group

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The Archbishop of Canterbury announced the formation of the Windsor Continuation Group (WCG), as proposed in his Advent Letter. The WCG will address outstanding questions arising from the Windsor Report and the various formal responses from provinces and instruments of the Anglican Communion. 

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Presidential Address to the opening of General Synod

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'The prevailing attitude...was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the (speaker) had not said'. Ronald Knox's description of discussion at a student society in the nineteen thirties has a certain familiarity after the last few days; but given that public comment and criticism has been cast in such highly-coloured terms

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Archbishop of Canterbury's Liverpool lecture - Europe, Faith and Culture

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A lot of what gets said about Europe these days suggests that we are better at saying what it isn't than what it is. We say 'Europe' when we mean 'not Britain' or 'not America', sometimes 'not the Islamic world' or even 'not the developing world.' But we need from time to time to try and rescue a positive definition of some sor; which means a bit of historyand a bit of philosophy.

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