Youth empowerment tops the agenda for the Anglican Alliance consultation which opens in Solomon Islands in the Pacific today.
Anglican education administrators from Commonwealth countries have a chance to apply for a professional fellowship scheme – but applications are needed before Friday September 16th.
Anglicans are to meet in Nairobi next week to launch an appeal and advocacy campaign on the food crisis sweeping East Africa.
The Archbishop of Burundi today (Tuesday) gave a passionate appeal to the UK government to restore its bilateral funding to Burundi – one of the poorest and most fragile countries in the world.
The Archbishop of Burundi, Most Rev Bernard Ntahoturi will be giving evidence to the UK’s International Development Select Committee in Parliament next week.
The leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States has called for G20 agriculture ministers meeting in Paris today for strong action to combat high food prices.
Anglican church leaders have written to G20 agriculture ministers to press for measures to combat high food prices ahead of the ministers’ meeting next week.
The Anglican Alliance launches a food campaign targeting G20 and African governments in the run-up to this month’s meetings on the global food crisis. Support for women farmers will be a focal point for the campaign
A local church leader in the contested Abyei area in Sudan has called for urgent support for civilians after troops swept through the town over the weekend. He said civilians were "lying on the ground without medical attention, shelter, food and water. We are left no choice but to raise the voice of the voiceless for relief assistance”.
The Anglican Alliance reached out across the Communion this week with a Facebook page for people to share views and expertise on development, relief and advocacy.
The Anglican Alliance’s inaugural assembly ended in Nairobi with a consensus on the way forward in development, advocacy and relief.
Delegates from throughout Africa and from all other regions of the world opened the first consultative conference for the Anglican Alliance in Nairobi yesterday (Monday 11 April)
Anglicans and Christian Aid renewed their partnership for development at a three-day consultation in Kenya
The UK government's aid arm, the Department for International Development (DFID), in its report “Changing Lives, Delivering Results” has proposed cutbacks in funding for some multilateral agencies, and also cuts in spending to some developing countries. Director of the Anglican Communion's Anglican Alliance for Development, Relief and Advocacy Sally Keeble has asked for a meeting with DFID officials to go through details of the proposed cuts which would have a serious impact on people in some very poor countries.
