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The meeting of Anglican Primates, the senior bishops of the Anglican Provinces, took place in Canterbury between Monday 2 October and Friday 6 October at the invitation of the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. 

The International Reformed–Anglican Dialogue (IRAD) between the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and the Anglican Communion met for its third meeting, at the eBandla Hotel, Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 31 August to 7 September 2017. The Co-Chairs are the Revd Elizabeth Welch (Reformed) and the Rt Revd David Chillingworth (Anglican).

I am honoured to present my report to Standing Committee. I took up my appointment from 1 July 2015 reporting to Standing Committee in September after only two months in post. I then reported in Lusaka in April 2016, when I had been in post for nine months.

AIN Meeting & Conference hosted by the National Indigenous Bishop of Canada, The Rt. Rev. Mark MacDonald, At The Bear’s Inn, Six Nations Reserve on the Grand River Territory, Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada

The Anglican Indigenous Network (AIN) is an international community of faithful Indigenous Anglicans who are minorities in their own Lands. We gather every two years to provide mutual support as we strategically plan our future together. Compelled by the Gospel’s power of love, renewal, peace, reconciliation, and restoration we support one another within our common challenge as minority peoples faced with the unique daily realities of the ongoing impact of colonialism in the Church we love and in the world we are called to steward.

The August 2017 edition gathers news from around the Anglican Communion and anticipates our October newsletter on Anglican responses to human trafficking by featuring the story of an IAWN member who has survived modern day slavery. Please pray for her and for all those highlighted in our newsletter.

The Anglican–Old Catholic International Co-ordinating Council (AOCICC) met in the Arbeitnehmerzentrum in Königswinter near Bonn, Germany, from 4 to 8 July 2017. The meeting was hosted by the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht. This was the fifth meeting of the Council under its current mandate.

“To be caught up in healing and healthcare is to be drawn into God’s passion for human flourishing and the family offers a primary context where such flourishing is founded - an agency for restoring hope and recovering community.” (Bishop David Rossdale, IAFN Chair)

These words encapsulate what IAFN’s latest newsletter is all about, sharing stories from around the Anglican Communion of the many supportive ways churches and dioceses are coming alongside families affected by health difficulties and challenges. From pregnancy and birth care through to chaplaincy care for elders, this newsletter contains stories of mental, physical and emotional health, of community action and creative response throughout the varying stages and circumstances of life.

The Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) held the seventh meeting of its current phase (ARCIC III) in Erfurt, Germany, 14–20 May, 2017.

The May 2017 edition of the International Anglican Women’s Network newsletter is a UN Commission on the Status of Women special! It contains the thoughts, impressions and discoveries of some of the Anglican delegates to the Commission’s 61^st session and reveals the depth of their experience – and their realisation that any one of us can be an advocate for women and girls around the world.