The Church of South India has today appointed its first woman bishop. The Revd Eggoni Pushpalalitha was ordained in 1983 and has most recently been a priest in the Diocese of Nadyal in Andhra Pradesh.
Anglicans in Pakistan and around the world have expressed shock and sadness after two suicide bombers killed around 80 people and injured 200 at a church in Pakistan.
The Anglican Communion has given thanks to God for the safe releaseof the Church of Nigeria’s second most senior cleric, ArchbishopIgnatius Kattey.
One year from today, women priests can become bishops in the Church in Wales.
Senior leaders of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) will still meet for their bi-annual Standing Committee, despite the kidnapping of their Provincial Dean.
An English priest, the Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, has been elected as the new Bishop of Waikato Diocese in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has issued the following statement wishing Jewish communities “every blessing” at Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of the Jewish New Year.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is one of fourteen signatories to an article in Living Church magazine entitled Defending Bishop Tengatenga.
My Lords, I very much welcome the opportunity to have been able to speak later in this debate because of the extraordinary quality of many of the contributions that have been made, and how much one can learn by listening to them.
Both Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, have warned of the consequences of military action in Syria.
A marketing initiative established to remind Brits about the true meaning of Christmas is trying something different this year.
An Anglican committee for promoting equality and respect has called for change in print and online media after a men’s magazine ran a competition to find “Australia’s Hottest Asylum Seeker.”
Archbishop Justin Welby has spoken of the “joyful” work of building Christian-Muslim relationships in his first annual message to Muslims on Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan.
The Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, has outlined plans for a £33 million British Pounds (US$ 50 million) development plan for the his diocese and is seeking the views of the wider Anglican Communion as the proposals take shape.
The burial of a king is usually a significant event: full of pomp andpageantry, ritual and ceremony. And the same will be true when Englandburies its king in Leicester Cathedral in the coming months – despitethe fact that the king in question, Richard III, died more than 500years ago and that his first burial in what was then the church of theGreyfriars’ monastery was anything-but ceremonial.
The Bishop of Wiawso, in the Church of the Province of West Africa, has called for Ghanaians to show “restraint” as the country’s Supreme Court prepares to rule on a petition to overturn the results of last December’s presidential election.
Anglican youth from as far away as Australia have travelled to Brazil for the Roman Catholic Church’s World Youth Day.
Reports of fresh fighting around Goma and attacks on women in theconflict zone have been sent to the Anglican Alliance, the Anglican Communion’s relief and development agency, from the Church inthe Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Anglican Church in Japan/Nippon Sei Ko Kai (NSKK) has launched the second phase of its Isshoni Aruko(Let Us Walk Together) project, set up after the earthquake, tsunamiand nuclear fallout of March 2011 that left tens of thousands dead,missing or injured.
The General Synod has reaffirmed itscommitment to women bishops and called, less than a year after theprevious proposals were rejected, for new draft legislation to beintroduced.
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