Anglican Communion News Service

So how can one even contemplate doubling AIDS related national infant mortality - an estimated 100 infants a day - as government seems hell bent on de-registering a treatment that even our Constitutional Court acknowledges is the best resource we have at the moment.  How can our government, born out of a struggle for justice, strive to ignore the directive of its own court?

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Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, flies to Paris tonight (14 July) to attend a high-powered post G-8 summit Global Fund conference.

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Senior church leaders in South Africa have called on the international Christian community to uphold the South African church in prayer next week, 7-11 July, when Christian leaders from all walks of life meet to attend the South African Christian Leadership Assembly .

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The issue surrounding the appointment of Jeffrey John as a suffragan bishop affects, in the first instance, the diocese of Oxford and the Church in England, not the Church of the Province of Southern Africa.

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The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, hosted the first informal meeting on 10 May with the litigants in the case involving South African corporations and victims of human rights violations under apartheid.

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The significance of the Church in the fight against HIV/AIDS has once again been brought to the fore after the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) recently partnered with Christian Aid (UK) and the British Government, through DFID, to embark on a major R222 million (US$30.5 million) AIDS programme.

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 Anglican Archbishop, Njongonkulu Ndungane, has added his voice to the Western Cape Premier's call for the flood stricken region of the South-western Cape to be declared a disaster area.

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Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has asked Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) to mediate in the longstanding dispute between Zimbabwe and Britain.

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The Archbishop of Southern Africa, the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane, has called on Southern Africa's 10 million baptized Anglicans at all levels to urgently address the issue of homosexuality and to do so in a manner that will generate mutual understanding and bring people out of their "corners of conviction."

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Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane will celebrate an AIDS Awareness Day service at St James Anglican Church in Soweto, South Africa, on Sunday 1 December.

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The Anglican Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA) has, at its three-yearly synod, adopted a R22.5 million HIV/AIDS ministry programme to commence immediately.

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Declaration to the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development

Declaration to the Anglican Communion

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Wednesday 21 August 2002

Today's first speaker was Rosina Wiltshire of the UN Development Programme. Rosina's presentation was entitled 'Gender and Human Development' and she spoke of the series of UN conferences and summits with which she had been engaged as an advocate of women's rights. Rosina explained to the delegates that she is both an Anglican and 'dedicated to the protection of the environment and to health and human well-being'.

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Tuesday 20 August 2002

This morning delegates began, as they do each day, with meditation led by Claire Foster, taking one sentence from scripture. Today it was “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth”. Later, in the morning session, Peter Mann, who whilst addressing ‘Sacred Meals and Global Food Systems’, referred to the meditation as underpinning our recognition of food as sacred. Peter had been a Benedictine monk and in his work with World Hunger Year, he had been reminded of the importance of the monastic tradition of sharing meals together, and eating the food they had grown in their own fields. He questioned why, when there was an abundance of food throughout the world, 800 million people live in hunger, often in the countries producing most food.

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19th August 2002

Representatives from around the Anglican Communion have begun the first ever event the Communion has held to discuss and debate the issue of sustainable development, which is the subject of the forthcoming World Summit.

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On the appointment of the Most Revd Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury

I am delighted by the appointment of Rowan Williams. I have known him and his wife Jane since the 80's - a very difficult time for the church in South Africa. It was then that they responded to my invitation to lead seminars in this country and their input was invaluable and hugely encouraging at a time when we desperately needed friends in the North.

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What can we do?

Teachers, researchers, activists and policy makers from five countries in Southern Africa will meet together with partners from the UK on 18 July in London, at a conference in Senate House, University of London to assess what can be done to overcome HIV/AIDS in the education sector.

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at Bishopscourt, Cape Town on 17 July 2002

Passing through London I was horrified by newspaper headlines stating that the average life expectancy in Africa will soon be only 26 years. The same UNAIDS report that made such alarming news around the world warns that the AIDS pandemic is yet to peak - we haven't seen the worst of it yet!

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The Constitutional Court's ruling that compels the government to provide drugs that reduce the risk of the transmission of HIV from mother to foetus is both welcome and alarming. While the outcome is a tribute to those who have persevered against severe odds to bring the Government to its moral obligation to care for its citizens, we cannot lose sight of the time and lives that have in the meanwhile been lost and will continue to be at risk until our State hospitals shift into gear. I have said it before and will say it again: to dither on these issues is to fail Creation.

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Jubilee South Africa must be commended for the tremendous energy with which it has pursued truth, justice and reconciliation in regard to the victims and beneficiaries of apartheid.

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In a strongly worded address recently given at a conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, the Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, the Rt Revd Desmond Tutu, expressed his grave concern for the current state of affairs in the Holy Land. Having had first-hand experience of injustice and oppression under the apartheid regime in South Africa he recalls how the great supporters of abolishing the system were Jewish people. "They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones," he said.

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South Africa’s Human Right’s Day, 21 March 2002, will see over 250 000 Christians, in seven stadiums countrywide, praying to God to transform their cities, the Nation of South Africa and the continent of Africa. Their prayers will be joined by countless others listening to live radio broadcasts, watching TV or participating in smaller events planned in outlying cities. This year the event also invites international participation with live coverage on satellite TV throughout Africa and Europe (Channel 98 on DSTV through out Sub Saharan Africa, SABC throughout Africa and the GOD channel, channel 655 on Sky Digital in the UK and Europe).

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The government was sinning against God by denying life-saving medication to mothers and children facing the threat of HIV/Aids, Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town said on Friday.

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Last year's horrific US tragedy and subsequent events have dramatically illustrated how vulnerable and mutually dependent we are in our global village.

They pose a supreme challenge: Work together for the common good or perish!

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Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane on America's response to events of 11 September 2001. We were extremely horrified by the events of September 11th.

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Under the baton of Barry Smith and Mjikisile Vulindlu, the Cape Philharmonic, St George’s Singers, UCT Choir and UCT Choir for Africa are offering Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu a celebratory concert for his 70th birthday.

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In an historic meeting on September 17, 2001, representatives of the Anglican Church, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, COSATU and the Treatment Action Campaign met, out of a common commitment to life and dignity, to join forces against the AIDS epidemic.

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I need to say clearly and loudly that the South African government is presently breaching the constitutional rights of abandoned, abused and orphaned children.

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A statement addressed to the media by the Ecumenical Caucus at the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

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Sunday 26th August at 3pm sees St George's Cathedral, Cape Town the venue for a unique event in the life of the nation. An hour long service - presided at by former Archbishops of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu and Philip Russell - to mark the cathedral's centenary.

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