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IN A March 5 communiqué marking what it said is a “historic day for the Global Anglican Communion,” GAFCON announced that it has di...
continue readingTHE Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking in the House of Lords on March 18 against the decriminalisation of abortions carried out outside the legal fram...
continue readingON MARCH 17, Scotland’s parliament voted 69 to 57 to reject Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill. This is a great victory after the same bill was passed at second reading, in May 2025, by a vote of 70 to 56.
continue readingFOR YEARS, we’ve heard the same story: Religion is dying in Canada, especially among young people. Churches are emptying. Faith is becoming irrelevant. The secular age has won. But recent data suggests Canada’s religious reality isn’t quite so simple. Given reports from the United Kingdom and the United States suggesting increased religious practice among young adults in those countries, Cardus partnered with the Canadian Bible Society to find out if something similar was happe...
continue reading(Staff) On Feb. 12, after a marathon debate, the General Synod of the Church of England formally ended Living in Love and Faith (LLF), the nine-year project that some had hoped would fully authorize s...
IT IS A sobering season in Nigeria. On Feb. 4, Islamic extremists killed 177 villagers in Kwara State, mostly moderate Muslims, and 35 in Katsina State.
A RECENT Supreme Court ruling in New Delhi has elicited responses of cautious optimism from the minority Christian community in India, who have long faced criminal cases under state-level anti-convers...
continue readingBOLDLY announcing that “the future has arrived,” GAFCON, the Global South-based conservative renewal movement also known as the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, declared the crea...
continue readingThe Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Shane Parker, and The Rt Rev. Daniel Gifford, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Canada, respond to the GAFCON announcement.
continue reading(RNS) – ARCHBISHOP Steve Wood, who leads the Anglican Church in North America, was inhibited, or temporarily suspended from his ministry, on Nov. 16, just days after more than 140 clergy in the...
continue readingShe 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 of Christ to this new ministry, I do so in the sam...
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 the first evangelical to lead the church since th...
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...
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...
continue readingTHE 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...
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