Press Releases

 

29 January 2025   Anglican Bishop describes terror in Goma and issues “Goma Call for Peace”
     
27 January 2025   Anglican Communion Webinar on Christian Unity to follow the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
     
13 November 2024  

A Statement by the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

     
11 November 2024  

Anglicans to call for Just Financing to protect the world's poorest

     
07 November 2024  

Anglican Centre in Rome announces new Director

     
02 May 2024  

Anglican Primates enjoy historic meeting with Pope Francis

     
02 May 2024  

Anglican Primates enjoy historic meeting with Pope Francis

     
24 April 2024  

Anglican Primates will gather in Rome for pilgrimage, consultation, and meeting with Pope Francis

     
19 March 2024  

Sudan Solidarity Visit - Secretary General of the Anglican Communion visits the Episcopal Church of Sudan

     
11 March 2024  

Anglican Delegation Attends Major United Nations Summit in New York

     
19 February 2024  

Anglican Communion Office run Companion Links meeting for bishops and share new guidance

     
01 February 2024  

It’s time to ‘walk together, pray together, and seek justice together’, say Anglican and Catholic Bishops as they share their commitment and call for Christian Unity

     
29 January 2024  

"Called to be Jesus Partners" - Anglican and Catholic Growing Together Summit in Canterbury

     
26 January 2024  

Anglican and Catholic bishops pray at the Church of San Gregorio al Celio as Ecumenical Summit prepares to travel to Canterbury

     
25 January 2024  

Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury Commission Anglican and Roman Catholic Bishops for Joint Mission and Witness in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

     
25 January 2024  

The Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at San Bartolomeo – a church dedicated to the memory of 20th and 21st Century Martyrs, during ecumenical summit

     
24 January 2024  

Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury to commission bishops in support of ecumenical summit 'Growing Together'

     
23 January 2024  

Anglican and Catholic Bishops make pilgrimage to St Peter’s Basilica for Anglican Choral Evensong as part of the ‘Growing Together’ Ecumenical Summit

     
23 January 2024  

“Growing Together” - Discussions at an Ecumenical Summit of Anglican and Catholic Bishops Starts in Rome Today During the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

     
18 January 2024   Media Advisory: Anglican and Catholic bishops to meet in Rome and Canterbury for Ecumenical Summit 
     
28 November 2023   Hope, Justice and a Voice for the Vulnerable
     
21 November 2023   “Policies and procedures of the Safe Church are good for all of us. They protect everyone,” says Bishop of Matabeleland at launch of Anglican Communion Safe Church resource
     
15 November 2023  

Anglican Communion Director of Communications, Gavin Drake, to step down

     
14 November 2023  

Statement from the Anglican Communion Office: Igreja Anglicana de Mocambique e Angola

     
24 October 2023  

Archbishops of Canterbury and Jerusalem issue joint Emergency Appeal for the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem

     
17 October 2023  

A Statement by The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem: Church Unites in Prayer, Firmly Condemns Massacre at Hospital, and Grieves the Loss of Hundreds of Innocent Civilians

     
16 October 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General echoes Jerusalem church leaders’ call for global Day of prayer and Fasting in response to Israel / Hamas conflict

     
11 October 2023  

International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue conclude Jerusalem meeting

     
08 October 2023  

Anglican Communion response to fresh outbreak of violence in the Holy Land and al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza launches emergency appeal

     
02 October 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General stresses hospitality and forgiveness after historic weekend in Rome

     
27 September  2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General’s warm welcome for South East Asia’s new Archbishop

     
18 September  2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General to visit Poland, USA and Singapore

     
13 September  2023  

Anglican Communion global prayer diary reaches re-set point

     
13 September  2023  

Bishop Jo Bailey Wells to become Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

     
7 September  2023  

Mothers’ Union celebrates 20 years of changing lives through literacy

     
18 August 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General praises pioneering educational work with disadvantaged girls in Tanzania

     
17 August 2023  

Pakistan church attacks: The Anglican Communion calls for justice and prayers

     
10 August 2023  

Anglican bishops and scientists consult on the interplay of faith and science at a meeting in Kenya to develop the work of the Anglican Communion Science Commission

     
8 August 2023  

Anglicans are being invited to take forward the Lambeth Call on the Environment and Sustainable Development, one year on from the launch of the Communion Forest at Lambeth Palace

     
26 July 2023  

Official Conference Report publishes - marking one year anniversary of the Lambeth Conference

     
26 July 2023  

One year on from the Lambeth Conference: The Archbishop of Canterbury shares a message of hope

     
24 July 2023  

English- and Portuguese-speaking bishops gather for first international episcopal peer-learning initiative

     
16 July 2023  

Statement from the Anglican Communion Secretary General on the death of Lady Jane Williams

     
4 July 2023  

Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem to confer honorary Canonry on Bishop Anthony Poggo

     
28 June 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General urges “moderate language” over disagreements

     
23 June 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General to visit the Anglican Church of Canada

     
9 June 2023  

Archbishop of Canterbury urges Church of Uganda to reject anti-LGBTQ law

     
6 June 2023  

Dublin Archbishop appointed Anglican co-chair of global ecumenical partnership with Oriental Orthodox Churches 

     
5 June 2023  

Bishop of Morobo, the Right Revd Amosa Data Elinoma, ambushed by armed militia in South Sudan

     
5 June 2023  

Anglican Consultative Council signs Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

     
2 June 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General praises the role of the Church in the Indian Ocean

     
1 June 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General pays tribute after death of Dr Agnes Abuom, Kenyan ecumenist and peacemaker

     
31 May 2023  

Anglican Communion Secretary General to visit the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean

     
30 May 2023  

Taking the Lambeth Calls Forward: The Lambeth Conference Phase 3 journey launches, and starts with Discipleship

     
22 May 2023  

Senior Ghanaian Virologist appointed co-chair of Anglican Communion Science Commission

     
17 May 2023  

Dates confirmed for next Anglican Communion Primates’ Meeting

     
20 April 2023  

Christians should challenge hostile approaches to asylum seekers, says Anglican Communion Secretary General

     
14 April 2023  

Phase 3 of the Lambeth Conference will launch in May 2023 and invite church communities to ‘Add Your Voice to the Call’

     
20 February 2023  

Statement by the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

     
18 February 2023  

Anglican Consultative Council vote shapes new Anglican Communion Standing Committee

     
17 February 2023  

Palestinian Archbishop elected unopposed as Vice Chair of Anglican Consultative Council

     
15 February 2023  

Liverpool Lay Canon elected unopposed as Chair of Anglican Consultative Council

     
15 February 2023  

ACC-18 visits former British slave castle in Ghana with the Archbishop of Canterbury

     
14 February 2023  

Anglican Consultative Council welcomes new group to explore “structure and decision-making” to “address our differences in the Anglican Communion”

     
14 February 2023  

Urgency of good safeguarding emphasised by Anglican Consultative Council members

     
12 February 2023  

Anglican Communion Office rebuts misleading claims about Church of England General Synod

     
12 February 2023  

Archbishop of Canterbury addresses concern over global Anglican structures

     
11 February 2023  

Archbishop of Canterbury visits Ashanti King in Ghana and bestows The Cross of Saint Augustine

     
26 January 2023  

International reconciliation and mediation practitioner to direct Anglican Communion’s work at the UN

     
24 January 2023  

Archbishop of Burundi refutes “fake news” of departure from the Anglican Communion

     
31 December 2022  

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: a statement from the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

     
17 October 2022  

Nomination d'une évêque pour le ministère épiscopal dans la Communion anglicane afin de tirer parti du succès de la Lambeth Conference

     
17 October 2022  

Se nombró a una obispa para el Ministerio Episcopal en la Comunión Anglicana para que construya sobre la base de la exitosa Lambeth Conference

     
17 October 2022  

Bispa para o Ministério Episcopal na Comunhão Anglicana nomeada para dar continuidade ao bom trabalho desenvolvido na Lambeth Conference

     
17 October 2022  

Bishop for Episcopal Ministry in the Anglican Communion appointed to build on the successful Lambeth Conference

     
30 September 2022  

Anglican Communion Standing Committee conclude “hopeful” and “uplifting” meeting

     
09 September 2022  

Anglican leaders around the world respond to the death of Queen Elizabeth II

     
09 September 2022  

Secretary General of the Anglican Communion pays tribute to Late Queen Elizabeth II

     
08 September 2022  

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby writes to global Anglican leaders

     
08 September 2022  

Prayers for Queen Elizabeth from the Anglican Communion

     
07 September 2022  

Anglican Communion’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations moves to new role

     
08 August 2022  

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Closing Sermon at the fifteenth Lambeth Conference

     
07 August 2022  

Anglican Communion appoints new Director of Unity, Faith and Order

     
07 August 2022  

The Fifteenth Lambeth Conference closes in song at Canterbury Cathedral

     
07 August 2022  

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Second Keynote Address at the Lambeth Conference

     
06 August 2022  

Church must learn to ‘speak confidently and courageously’ on science in changing world – Lambeth conference told

     
06 August 2022  

Bishops observe silence for Hiroshima Day as Lambeth Conference remembers violence and conflict around the world

     
04 August 2022  

Join with us to fight world crises such as climate change and poverty – Bishops’ invitation to leaders of other faiths

     
04 August 2022  

Lambeth Conference Calls for Church Unity amid ‘ecumenical emergency’

     
03 August 2022  

Global environmental restoration plan launched at Lambeth Conference

     
03 August 2022  

This is a time of ‘great need for the love of God’ – Queen’s message to Lambeth Conference

     
02 August 2022  

Bishops at Lambeth Conference discuss the Lambeth Call on Human Dignity

     
01 August 2022  

Bishops express support for ‘Anglican Congress’ meeting in the Global South

     
31 July 2022  

Creation of safe communities is a core part of the Church’s global mission, say bishops

     
31 July 2022  

United in prayer – bishops from around the world join in global chorus at Lambeth Conference Opening service at Canterbury Cathedral

     
27 July 2022  

Bishops from around world gather for 15th Lambeth Conference: climate change, war and poverty on agenda

     
26 July 2022  

Text of Lambeth Calls to be discussed by Bishops at Lambeth Conference published

     
22 July 2022  

Lambeth Calls: A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury to bishops attending the Lambeth Conference

     
14 June 2022  

Former child refugee named as next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

     
6 June 2022  

Tree planted at the Anglican Communion Office for the Queen’s Green Canopy

     
6 June 2022  

“Promises must be fulfilled” – Global North governments urged to honour financial commitments on climate change

     
20 April 2022  

Anglican Communion responds to misleading English Churchman article

     
31 March 2022  

Global Anglican leaders call for withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine

     
28 March 2022  

Global meeting of Anglican Primates takes place in London

     
21 March 2022  

Two senior Anglican Communion directors move on to new roles

     
7 March 2022  

Anglican Communion welcomes UN call for peace in Ukraine

     
11 February 2022  

Anglican Primates’ Meeting transferred to London from Rome

     
02 February 2022  

Consultation launched on membership of the Crown Nominations Commission for future Archbishops of Canterbury

     
13 January 2022  

Bishops will discuss Leadership and Ministry in a Conflicted World as part of the journey towards the Lambeth Conference in 2022

     
26 December 2021  

Statement from the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion on the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

     
26 November 2021  

Primates write to Special Session of the World Health Assembly following Primates’ Meeting

     
3 November 2021  

Rachel Parry to join Anglican Communion Office as Commissions and Networks Support Officer

     
24 September 2021  

Mrs Sheran Harper, Worldwide President of the Mothers’ Union, joins the Religions for Peace World Council

     
24 September 2021  

Anglican Communion welcomes Igreja Anglicana de Mocambique e Angola as 42nd member province

     
21 September 2021  

Anglican Communion Secretary General to step down in August 2022

     
18 September 2021  

Call to G7 nations to share surplus vaccines

     
8 September 2021  

A Joint Message for Protection of Creation

     
22 July 2021  

Young Anglicans invited to expose scandal of gender-based violence

     
6 July 2021  

First round of Lambeth Conference Bishops’ Conversations due to start (6th and 8th July 2021)

     
2 July 2021  

Tributes paid following death of Archbishop Fereimi Cama, Primate of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

     
21 May 2021  

Scientists and theologians join forces for new Anglican Communion Science Commission

     
20 May 2021  

Anglican Communion Secretary General joins International Christian leaders in call for end to Colombian violence

     
18 May 2021  

Archbishop of South Sudan responds to violent attacks in Abyei

     
17 May 2021  

Statement on the eruption of violence throughout the Holy Land

     
28 April 2021   Anglican Communion prays for the Catholic community of South Sudan
     
21 April 2021   The journey to Lambeth Conference will start online - A series of virtual Bishops’ Conversations will run in 2021 – in preparation for the Lambeth Conference in 2022
     
9 April 2021   Anglican Communion Deputy Secretary General pays tribute to Duke of Edinburgh
     
9 April 2021  

Archbishop of Canterbury’s Statement on the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

     
7 April 2021   New Anglican Health and Community Network launches on World Health Day
     
3 April 2021   Anglican Communion Secretary General urges all Christians to pray for the People of Myanmar
     
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဧပြီလ ၄ ရက်    အင်္ဂလီကန် ဝတ်ပြုဆုတောင်းအသင်း အထွေထွေအတွင်းရေးမှူးထံမှ မြန်မာပြည်သူလူထုအတွက် မျှော်လင့်ချက် သတင်းလွှာ
     
15 March 2021   Potential new Anglican Communion province proposed for Mozambique and Angola
     
5 March 2021   Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury
     
1 March 2021   Anglican Communion Office loses two more staff as restructuring consultation ends
     
12 February 2021   New Anglican Communion Deputy Secretary General and ACO Core Team unveiled
     
9 February 2021   Anglican Communion re-affirms commitment to gender justice in new ACO structure
     
1 February 2021   Official Announcement: Mr David White
     
27 January 2021   Anglican Communion Finance Director moves to Church of England’s Chelmsford Diocese
     
19 January 2021   Review of focus leads to slimmed-down Anglican Communion Office
     
12 November 2020   Global Anglican leaders call for “equitable” Covid-19 vaccine roll-out to world’s vulnerable
     
12 October 2020   Anglican Communion’s Mission Director steps down for return to parish ministry
     
9 October 2020   Anglican Communion welcomes Nobel Peace Prize for UN World Food Programme
     
25 September 2020   Ecumenical statement on migration received by European Commission
     
3 August 2020   What do Anglicans Believe? New study guide published by the Anglican Communion
     
28 July 2020   The Archbishop of Canterbury launches initiative called 'Together in Unity' to support churches and communities around the world during the COVID-19 crisis
     
17 July 2020   Anglican Communion rejects take-over claims by Egyptian protestant group
     
8 July 2020   The Lambeth Conference reschedules to 2022 – “Let us walk together as we seek to be good news” says the Archbishop of Canterbury
     
29 June 2020   Anglican Communion confirms inauguration of the Episcopal / Anglican Province of Alexandria
     
29 June 2020   يعلن اتحاد الكنائس الاسقفية الانجليكانية في العالم عن تدشين اقليم الاسكندرية
     
26 June 2020   The River Nile – A Gift from God: Statement from the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa
     
26 May 2020   Major new resource equips churches to tackle Covid-19-related Domestic Abuse
     
26 May 2020   Review begins into post Covid-19 priorities of the Anglican Communion Office
     
28 April 2020   Rebuilding a Just World: Faith Actors Call for COVID-19 Responses to Tackle Gender Inequalities
     
11 April 2020   Anglican Communion goes digital as Christians around the world stay at home for Easter
     
27 March 2020   Anglican Communion Health Network advises on suspension of public worship
     
24 March 2020   Covid-19: A message from global Anglican leadership
     
24 March 2020   Anglican leaders endorse Pope Francis’ worldwide call for Christians to say the Lord’s Prayer
     
23 March 2020   Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops postponed to 2021
     
5 December 2019   Anglican Communion appoints international anti-gender-based violence campaigner
     
17 June 2019        Archbishop of Canterbury praises role of religious communities in the Anglican Communion
     
17 May 2019        Former Archbishop of the Indian Ocean appointed Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome
     
28 March 2019        Agenda published for Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-17) meeting in Hong Kong
     
20 February 2019        Operational Notice: Seventeenth meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-17)
     
29 November 2018        Dates confirmed for 2020 Lambeth Conference gathering of Anglican bishops
     
18 June 2018    Allchurches Trust announce £750,000 bursary grant for Lambeth Conference