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She has been the Bishop of London since 2018. In her first comments since accepting the role, the Archbishop said: “As I respond to the call...
continue readingTHE RT REV. Dr. Mark Short, Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn since 2019, was elected on July 19 as Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia. He is...
continue readingTHE CHURCH of England’s governing body has called on the British government to improve funding for “desperately needed” palliative care rather than putting vulnerable people at risk through “unworkable and unsafe” legislation to introduce assisted suicide.
continue reading(Staff) THE BISHOP-ELECT of Rupert’s Land, who has lived and worked in both Africa and North America, hopes to bridge the division between the Global North and the Global South in the Anglican Communion.
continue readingANGLICAN LEADERS from across the Global South condemned the July 30 election of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, a partnered lesbian, as Archbishop of Wales, describing it as an “abandonment of the fai...
THE Archbishop of Kenya has ordered churches under his care to stop allowing speeches by politicians during their worship services. The ban moves the Anglican Church of Kenya into a stricter separatio...
THE RT. REV. Martin Gordon, who has served as Bishop of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since December 2022, has fled the see city amid renewed attacks by a rebel military group backed...
continue reading(Staff) POPE Francis issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal stat...
continue reading(Staff) ON FEB. 11, the same day the Pope issued his letter, 27 faith groups filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington arguing that President Trump’s decision to rescind a 2011 govern...
continue reading(Staff) ON NOV. 29, British lawmakers approved in principle a Bill that permits terminally ill adults to seek help to end their lives if they have less than six months to live and can demonstrat...
continue reading(Staff) ON NOV. 12 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned amid allegations that he did little to stop a predatory layman from serially abusing as many as 130 boys and young men in Britia...
continue readingTHE VEN. Darrell Critch, a priest of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), was elected August 24 as Bishop of Mahajanga, Madagascar, a diocese of the Church in the Province of the Indian Ocean....
continue readingON JUNE 22, The Rt. Rev. Steve Wood of St. Andrew’s Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina was elected the next archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
continue readingBISHOP SEAN ROWE of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania and the Diocese of Western New York was elected the next presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, succeeding Presiding Bishop Michael Curr...
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PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow has been warned that his recent approval of a decree urging a “Holy War” and total takeover of Ukraine is likely to make the Russian Orthodox Church ineligible f...
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CONSERVATIVE Anglican leaders have challenged the authority of the Primates’ Meeting in Rome April 29-May 2, arguing that it is no longer representative of the worldwide Communion.
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AMID fears of a new wave of mass atrocities in Darfur, and warnings that 18 million people are going hungry, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Anthony Poggo, has appealed to the...
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THE VATICAN has described the belief in gender fluidity as “a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God,” as it released an updated declaration of what the Roman Catholic ch...
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IN ITS ANNUAL LIST detailing countries of concern when it comes to persecution of Christians, the watchdog organization Open Doors International highlighted outbreaks of violence against sub-Saharan A...
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SPEAKING at Mere Anglicanism, a conference sponsored by a diocese that ordains women to the priesthood, priest and conservative firebrand Calvin Robinson described women’s ordination as a &ldquo...
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VATICAN CITY (AP) – In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement on Jan. 11 refusing to follow his declaration allowing pr...
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AFTER MANY HOURS of intense debate, the Church of England’s General Synod on Nov. 15 narrowly approved a proposal by its bishops to allow clergy to bless same-sex relationships. The motion, whic...
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THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Evangelical Council (CEEC) will offer alternative spiritual episcopal ministry for clergy and congregations that oppose the introduction of blessings for same-sex couples.
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SOME CANADIAN Anglicans were heartened to learn that a priest that they felt had been unfairly treated by the Anglican Church of Canada has been voted the bishop-elect of Cascadia, a diocese in the An...
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There have been many statements issued concerning the Israeli-Hamas war. We think this one from the Church of England’s House of Bishops offers particular moral clarity, especially in its openin...
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AN ALLEGATION of blasphemy against two Christians in Pakistan has sparked a wave of sectarian attacks on churches and Christian communities
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TWO women who were forced to parade naked through the streets and were allegedly gang-raped by a mob in Manipur, India were members of a Presbyterian church in the region
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Bishop Azad Marshall visited the churches and Christian communities who were violently attacked in Jaranwala. He called for an end to Judicial Apartheid through fair and equal application of laws betw...
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A NIGERIAN-BORN BISHOP who spent almost a decade as an Anglican priest in Canada before becoming a bishop in the United States has reversed his decision of three years ago and changed his diocese&rsqu...
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FEWER THAN half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census – the first time only a minority of the population has followed the country&rsq...
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