16th September 2002
"An erosion of Communion through the adoption of local options reaching crisis proportions today"
In his final Presidential Address to the Anglican Consultative Council, Dr George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, shared his ‘greatest worry’ with the ACC members.
at the 12th Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council, Hong Kong
Monday 16 September 2002 at 11:15
Re-imagining the Anglican Communion
16 September 2002
ACC-12, meeting in Hong Kong was launched yesterday with worship, feasting, and celebration in true Hong Kong style, while not ignoring careful explanation of meeting procedures to be followed over the next ten days.
Two unique and historic services were held in Hong Kong prior to the commencement of the Anglican Consultative Meeting (ACC) being held in Hong Kong from 15th to 25th September.
Anglican Consultative Council meets under the title, "For the Life of the World"
The 12th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) will take place from 15-26 September, hosted by the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. The meeting will bring together representatives from the 38 Provinces of the Anglican Episcopal Communion around the world.
The difficulties and pains of life do not stop just because it is Easter, but if I can accept this sign, and trust in God's love for me, then I can have a real sense of joy and peace. Outwardly, I am not necessarily bubbling over with joy, but deep inside me there is a reassurance and an enduring hope that is a solid foundation for my life. From the Jesuits in Ireland
Bishop David Birney arrived in Panama today to report to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting, bringing delegates up to date on the situation of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. Bishop Birney is the Archbishop of Canterbury's Envoy to Rwanda and has spent recent months visiting the country and its Bishops. Despite continued requests and repeated visits by Church officials to those in exile, these Bishops, fearing reprisals, have refused to respond to the request that they return to their leaderless dioceses.
Emerging Provinces of the Anglican Communion will be helped towards membership of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) under guidelines agreed at the Council's meeting in Panama City today, 15 October 1996. Following the guidelines will ensure new Provinces the opportunity to benefit from the advice of the ACC and the experience of other Provinces.
The issue of homosexuality is not a top priority for the world, the Anglican Consultative Council was told at its meeting in Panama today, 17 October 1996. Poverty, peace and reconciliation come much higher up the agenda, delegates pointed out.
Welcome to ACC-10. Together with Canon Colin Craston, Chairman of ACC, I greet you all in the name of our Lord and pray that this time together will be a time of blessing as surely as it will be a time of hard work! I want to begin this Presidential Address by thanking the Secretary General and his staff for all the preparation that has gone into this Assembly. We are most grateful to them.
With his employers looking at a budget crisis in the next few days, the Anglican Observer at the United Nations used a hi-tech multi-media presentation to back his impassioned plea to support his ministry among the world's diplomats. The U.N. representative is responsible to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council through the Secretary General. Bishop James Ottley, who gives the Anglican Communion a voice at the UN, alternated between smooth diplomacy and inspired preaching to get his message across to members of the Anglican Consultative Council here Sunday night
OCTOBER 11, 1996 - PANAMA CITY, PANAMA - Anglicans from around the world began a 10-day meeting here to help develop a vision for the church in the third Christian millennium. With more than 80 members of the Anglican Consultative Council represent bishops, priests and deacons and lay people from the 36 major branches of the Anglican Church. It has met every three years since 1971.
The following resolution passed at the recent ACC-10 Meeting in Panama
Resolution on Rwanda
Trusting in God's reconciling power, and giving thanks for signs of repentance and spiritual renewal within the Episcopal Church of Rwanda, this Council:
Ecumenism is an inseparable part of the mission of the church to spread the Good News about Jesus Christ, a group of worldwide Anglican Church delegates was told recently.
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) today passed a resolution which endorses a proposal to help create a new town plan for Bethlehem's Manger Square. Anglicans were asked by the Palestinian National Authority to take part in this restoration of Bethlehem. The project will focus on reconstructing and replanning Manger Square (the birthplace of Christ) by the year 2000.
"The next Lambeth Conference will be a defining moment for Anglicanism. It will determine what we are and where we are going," said Archbishop Robin Eames to the representatives at the Anglican Consultative Council. "It will stand or fall on our sense of unity and vision."
A Tanzanian bishop who is a former Minister for Education in the Tanzanian Government is the new Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council. The Right Reverend John Paterson, Bishop of Auckland in the Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia was elected ACC Vice-Chairman in a series of closely contested ballots on 14 October.
City traffic was brought to a standstill in Panama City today, 13 October, when 2,500 members of the local Anglican Church joined delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in a kilometre long procession through the streets to the Gimnasio Nuevo sports hall. The procession was accompanied by police and youth bands and the 27 parishes all carried banners to mark their participation. Once inside the hall, they joined together in a three hour service of witness in a variety of languages typical of the international nature of the Anglican Communion.
What a great joy it is for me finally to stand before you after being in office for almost two years. What a great privilege it is to meet the appointed members of the Anglican Consultative Council from around the Anglican Communion. I have been waiting a long time for this day and I am thrilled it has finally come.
You shall not make for yourself any other idol, for God is spirit, the spirit and the ground of all beings, which is love. The creation is an expression of his great spirit of love. We live in a world of love. Therefore you shall not dishonour the name of the Lord your God. God is the ground of our being. Our beings are grounded in love. God is love and love is God.
The Tenth Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) will take place in Panama beginning October 10 and running through to October 20. The meeting theme is Witnessing as Anglicans in the Third Millennium.
As President of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon George L Carey, will call together Anglicans from around the world, laity and clergy, people from all walks of life, to discuss the work, worship and witness of the Anglican Communion around the world. The Archbishop of Canterbury will preach a sermon at a major Diocesan Mass on Sunday October 13 at 9am. The actual ACC meeting runs from October 10 through to October 20.
At their recent meeting in Bishop Woodford House, Ely, UK, the Joint Standing Committees of the Primates of the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) have announced the theme for the next international ACC gathering.
