Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and leaders of the Church of England have offered prayers for those affected by the March 22 attack in Westminster which left four people dead and many injured.
The former Primate of the Anglican Church of Burundi, Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi, has been appointed as the Representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. He succeeds Archbishop David Moxon who retires in June.
Optimism, enthusiasm and expectation filled the air as Anglican, Episcopal and Mothers’ Union delegates from more than 20 countries around the world gathered for the opening day of the 61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York on Monday.
The bells of St. Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, will be ringing on March 19 to signal solidarity with immigrants.
The Anglican primates of Oceania, who have been meeting in Australia, have warned of the threat to their region from climate change.
A service of rededication has taken place at St Saviour‘s Church, in Acre in northern Israel, which was closed in the late1940s.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has addressed the rise of far-right politics, the election of U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain’s decision to vote to leave the European Union, in his presidential address at the start of theChurch of England’s General Synod.
Several Anglican mission agencies have put out a joint statement expressing “profound concern” at President Trump’s executive order on immigration – barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and blocking all refugees from Syria.
The first woman to be ordained as a bishop by the Church in Wales has described her consecration at the weekend as “awe-inspiring.” Bishop Joanna
People have been reduced to eating toxic locusts as a result of the food shortages affecting Madagascar, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Thirty-six Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from 19 countries are in Canterbury at the start of an historic week-long summit marking closer ties between the two traditions.
Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders were joined by senior figures from other Christian denominations last night at a special choral evensong in Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Anglican Centre in Rome.
The Bishop of Central Florida, the Rt Revd Gregory Brewer, has responded to this weekend’s shooting at an Orlando night club by acknowledging that “words of condolence have little value”.
The Scottish Episcopal Church took the first step towards allowing same sex marriage when its General Synod approved a change to the Church’s canon on marriage at a meeting in Edinburgh today (10 June).
The Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, celebrates her 90th birthday today; and members of the Anglican Consultative Council took time out of their ACC-16 meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, to send her birthday greetings.
There has been an outpouring of support for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, after revelations in the British Daily Telegraph newspaper that his genetic father was, in fact, Sir Winston Churchill’s private secretary, the late Sir Anthony Montague Browne; rather than his mother’s late-husband, Gavin Welby.
The Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Queen Elizabeth II, has made a strong personal statement of her faith, and has told the people that she is “very grateful” for their prayers for her; saying that she has felt God’s “faithfulness” during 64 years on the throne.
[ACNS] Pope Francis has apologized for behaviour towards Christians from non-Roman Catholic churches that “has not reflected Gospel values.”
When the senior archbishops of the Anglican Communion gathered in Canterbury Cathedral last week they did so against a backdrop of complex disagreements.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said on January 11 that a formal schism in the Anglican Communion would be a failure; but he told BBC Radio Four’s Today programme that such a scenario “would not be a disaster” because “God is bigger than our failures.”
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