Anglicans from the Diocese of Toronto who participated in the Anglican Communion’s one-year indaba process believe it can have a transforming effect upon the church if it is used more broadly.
The Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies has announced that his Province has adopted the Anglican Communion Covenant. It is the third to do so officially, the others being the Anglican Church of Mexico and The Church of the Province of Myanmar.
At the opening of the week-long Synod of the Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands, Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies and Diocesan Bishop, His Grace Drexel Gomez said the Church must play an integral role in awareness building
The Standing Committee of the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Belize has received with pleasure the news of the appointment of the Rev. Canon Philip Wright to be the 14th Bishop of the Diocese of Belize
We the Bishops of the Church in the Province of the West Indies, meeting at the Provincial Secretariat in Barbados, send greetings to the faithful throughout the Province.
In July 2002, the House of Bishops of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) asked each diocese to pay greater attention to the area of mission, having identified engagement in mission as critical to the development of the Anglican Church in the province.
The first permanent Commission of the Anglican Communion met for the first time in early December 2000 - the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations (IASCER). The diverse group of sixteen people - men and women, lay and ordained, parish clergy, theologians and bishops, from ten nations and five continents - gathered in Nassau, the Bahamas, with the local Archbishop, Drexel Gomez, in the chair.
Monkey River Village in Belize is a very old village that has had an Anglican presence for many years. However, the congregation of St Stephen's has never had its own church building, instead they have met for worship in the school.
All Saints Anglican Church in Newtown, Trinidad, is planning to demolish its present crumbling and termite ridden bell tower, to replace it with a new state-of-the art tower containing two loud speakers linked to a digital sound system.
Leaders of the two main Christian denominations in Guyana have issued a joint statement calling on political parties contesting Guyana's upcoming general elections to "conduct the political debate on ideas and programmes and avoid personal attacks especially on the private life of any of the candidates".
Christian Churches in the Caribbean island of Antigua, only 60 kilometres away from the volcano ravaged island of Montserrat, have rallied to the support of the 4,500 residents still living mainly in shelters in the shrinking safe zone on the island and the 3,000 who have taken refuge in Antigua.
Parishioners of both Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches have joined forces to build a single church in the eastern community of Arima, Trinidad, after 13 years of planning and fund-raising on the part of both denominations.
On 22 December, 1996 the Anglican Diocese in Jamaica will ordain its first women priests when four existing women deacons will be priested.
The Anglican Communion Office has read in the diocesan paper of Trinidad and Tobago, that two women were ordained priest in the Anglican Diocese of Barbados in May. The women Sonia Hinds and Beverley Knight were ordained by the Rt Revd Rufus Brome at the Cathedral of St Michael, Bridgetown.
