A Tanzanian bishop has said African churches have a duty to complement state education to help improve the local lives and the local community.
Following their meeting with President Robert Mugabe, the Archbishops of Canterbury, Central Africa, Southern Africa and Tanzania issued the following statement at their press conference.
Mindful of the fact that the Anglican Church of Tanzania issued statements in 2003 following the election, confirmation and eventual consecration to the Episcopate of Gene Robinson a practising homosexual clergyman, whereby we declared that henceforth we are not in communion, namely, communio in sacris, with: i. Bishops who consecrate homosexuals to the episcopate and those Bishops who ordain such persons to the priesthood and the deaconate or license them to minister in their dioceses
The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) is embarking on an educational project that will see the establishment of an Anglican university in the country. The institution to be known as St. John's University is set tentatively to start operating in September 2006 and will be located in Dodoma, capital city of Tanzania
The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) last month held its four-year Health and HIV/AIDS Strategic planning in Dar es Salaam. A five-day workshop developed plans in partnership with USAID, Futures Group, Christian Aid (UK) and Churches in the Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA).
Archbishop Donald Mtetemela has been re-elected to lead the Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) as Primate for the next five years. The re-election was done by the Electoral College for the election of the Archbishop at its sitting on Tuesday 25 February 2003.
On Sunday October 7th the Dean, the Very Rev'd Dennis Manyoni, welcomed members of the Anglican Communion's Compass Rose Society to a festival Eucharist in recognition of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Diocese.
The Electoral College for the election of the Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Tanzania this week elected the Rt Revd Donald Mtetemela to be the 4th Archbishop of the Church for a term of five years.
The Rt Revd Musa Kahurananga, a retired Bishop of the Diocese of Western Tanganyika who became the second Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Tanzania, died on 30 September at Kasulu. His funeral took place at Kasulu and was presided by his Grace Archbishop John Ramadhani.
