Anglican Communion News Service

From 25th - 30th October 2005, about 120 delegates, representing 20 provinces within the Anglican Communion, from Africa, Asia and Latin America, will be meeting in Egypt for their third Global South Encounter. The Conference will take place at the Red Sea

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A new Anglican Church Centre is to be built in the State of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf. The initiative has arisen from the generosity of the country's Ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, who has ensured an allocation of land for churches and church communities in Doha, the country's rapidly-developing capital

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On 15 June 2005 the elections for the new Coadjutor Bishop of the Anglican Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East were held in Amman, Jordan. At the end of the second round, the Rev. Canon Suheil Dawani was elected as the new Bishop. He will work alongside the current Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Riah Abu-Assal, for a period of two years.

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The last remaining Anglican church in Iraq has praised the level of support it has received from the Anglican Communion and wider faith communities and has appealed for further assistance to meet its immediate needs and future goals. St George's Memorial Church in Baghdad, part of the Anglican Congregation of the American Embassy Chapel, is an important centre for the Iraqi Christian community

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It is with tremendous grief and sadness that I inform you that the Israeli special police force entered St George's Cathedral Close today without permission and took Mordechai Vanunu into custody

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We, as members of the Anglican Peace and Justice Network, representing 23 Provinces of the worldwide 75,000,000 member Anglican Communion, have visited the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem over these last 8 days, and during that time have been inspired by the faith of the people in the diocese

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The Jerusalem Inter-Church Committee has issued the following statement and asked that it be circulated as widely as possible

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Former director of studies becomes new Dean of St George's Jerusalem, one of the Anglican Communion's foremost continuing education centres

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As chief pastor of the Anglican community in the Holy Land, I greeted Mordechai Vanunu this morning at 11am as he was released from Ashkelon prison. He is an Anglican Christian and expressed his desire to offer thanks to God for his release from prison as his first act as a free man.

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Brothers and Sisters...Christ is risen! Let us rejoice. Let us achieve, with the grace of God, our own resurrection, spiritual and social. As we gaze on the Cross of Christ, we need to ask ourselves some penetrating questions if we would claim to be true disciples. In the first instance we must ask if we are ready to repudiate self-interest as the chief motive of our lives, so that we can readily accept the burdens of life which others lay on us.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is paying a pastoral visit to the diocese of Jerusalem in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East this week (25-30 January).

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is on a six-day pastoral visit to the Middle East, has strongly condemned the latest upsurge in violence involving Israelis and Palestinians.

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'He has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility'...This is a text used so often at services for Christian Unity that it has almost become stale; yet no-one in this congregation is likely to find it so. It is hard to think of an image more poignantly relevant to where we stand today as Christians in this land over which so many storm clouds are hovering

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Since its inception sixty years ago during the darkest days of World War Two, the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) has continued to confront the evil of antisemitism with a message of healing and mutual respect between our communities.

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Time and again the Christian life demands that we ask ourselves what it is that we really love. When Jesus meets Peter again beside the Sea of Galilee after his resurrection, he asks him three times, 'Do you love me?' And the challenge of the risen Jesus is always to ask us this: is it me that you love, he wants to know, or something else, perhaps something masquerading as me?

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In a phone conversation this New Year's Eve with the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rt Revd Riah Abu el Assal, ACNS learned that the Episcopal Church's hospital has been occupied by Israeli soldiers.

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Emergency relief efforts continue in the ancient city of Bam, Iran, after a deadly earthquake struck on December 26. Episcopal Relief and Development is working to help people caught in the disaster.

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Salaam and grace in the name of our Lord and blessed Christmas Eve greetings to you from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and St George's Cathedral in Jerusalem.

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Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold joined 32 other Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders in announcing a new collaborative effort to mobilize broad public support in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East.

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For nearly three and a half years Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Middle East have lived in fear and anxiety, with the stark reality that their lives are saturated by the hostilities and violence in their region.

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Centre for Christianity and Inter Religious Dialogue at Heythrop College and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (through the Middle East Forum) are jointly organizing a conference exploring the dilemmas facing Christian communities in the Middle East today.

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More than thirty young Christian theologians came together in Jerusalem last month to explore avenues of dialogue between Christians, Muslims and Jews.

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The broad smiles and warm handshakes told it all. Christians and Muslims are back on track discussing the "heavenly religions," as the Sunni Muslim leader put it.

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We, the heads of churches in Jerusalem, affirm our determination to do all in our power to work for Peace in this Holy Land, a Peace that is concerned with the well-being of every resident of this land, be they Israeli or Palestinian, to give the security, justice, freedom, independence and personal dignity.

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On behalf of the Anglican Consultative Council, I am writing to express to you and the United Nations, our deepest sympathy for the loss of Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello and United Nations staff in Iraq.

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The Revd Carl Harris, an Episcopal priest and a consultant for Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD), went to Iraq in June to assess the needs of people in the country following the war.

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The Diocese of Jerusalem has a powerful educational ministry, witnessing the love of Christ to almost 6000 students this academic year.

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The Anglican Consultative Council, representative of a worldwide Anglican Communion of 70 million people in 164 countries, reaffirms its full confidence in the authority of the United Nations and the Secretary General to rebuild Iraq in the interests of the Iraqi people and in accordance with international law.

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By now, most of you probably have heard about the "Road Map" that proposes to create a Palestinian state by 2005. As you can well imagine, this is an issue that lies very near to our hearts, as the people here have suffered more than 50 years under Israeli occupation.

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