| 22-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury expresses solidarity as death toll rises in Mexico City earthquake |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) text and image |
| 22-09-2017 |
Justin Welby: Boy wearing a dress to school ‘not a problem’ |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 22-09-2017 |
US bishops urge continued protection for child migrants |
ACNS |
| 22-09-2017 |
‘Purpose-filled’ clergy score highly on well-being |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 22-09-2017 |
Dire state of Religious Education laid bare in analysis of UK Government census |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 22-09-2017 |
Archbishop Welby to advise United Nations Secretary-General on mediation |
Church Times |
| 22-09-2017 |
Pocket biographies of the world’s Anglican Primates |
Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 22-09-2017 |
Welby: Africa can shape future of global economy |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 22-09-2017 |
Global South Primates briefed on ‘challenges’ |
Church Times |
| 22-09-2017 |
Governing Body of the Church in Wales: Archbishop Davies promises ‘more of the same’ — but faster |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 21-09-2017 |
Big W removes Christmas references from festive tree products |
Kieran Rooney, Christopher Harris and Mikaela Day, news.com.au |
| 21-09-2017 |
Archbishop Welby expects ‘energy’ and new faces at Primates’ Meeting |
Ed Thornton, Church Times |
| 21-09-2017 |
Welby tackles abortion, extremism, and gender during phone-in |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 20-09-2017 |
Victoria and New South Wales debate euthanasia bills |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio and text |
| 20-09-2017 |
Prayer urged as natural disasters strike Mexico and Caribbean islands |
ACNS text and images |
| 20-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury excited by prospect of ‘extraordinary’ Primates’ Meeting |
ACNS/YouTube video, text and image |
| 20-09-2017 |
Peace in South Sudan requires Christians to follow the greatest commandment |
ACNS |
| 20-09-2017 |
Canadian Indigenous church possible by 2019, says Primate |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 20-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's Rosh Hoshanah 2017 message |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 19-09-2017 |
Celebrations as Tonga’s first bishop symbolises ‘a bird that has begun to fly’ |
ACNS text and images |
| 19-09-2017 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes Met Police to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 18-09-2017 |
Australian Anglicans ‘sorry’ for complicity in domestic violence |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 18-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury joins UN Secretary-General’s advisory board on mediation |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 18-09-2017 |
Archbishop Welby hosts Lambeth Palace launch of ‘Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success’ |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 15-09-2017 |
Christian couple withdraw their two children from C of E school over its ‘fluid’ gender policy |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 15-09-2017 |
International call to halt Rohingya ‘genocide’ |
Church Times |
| 15-09-2017 |
Latest figures on giving show global decrease in generosity |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 15-09-2017 |
New Church of England poll confirms image of inactive Christians |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 15-09-2017 |
New national charity will help churches to welcome refugees |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 15-09-2017 |
Independent Reviewer’s report on Bishop Philip North’s nomination and withdrawal from See of Sheffield published |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 15-09-2017 |
The Philip North Sheffield fiasco — and the question that simply wasn’t asked |
Paul Handley, Church Times audio, text and image |
| 15-09-2017 |
Theology and pastoral practice need further work, Mawer review into Philip North affair concludes |
Paul Handley, Church Times |
| 15-09-2017 |
Europe’s first Anglican woman bishop laughs off everyday sexism |
Gregg Ryan, Church Times |
| 13-09-2017 |
Praying together for Marriage |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 13-09-2017 |
Priests-in-training to be given glossaries because they struggle to understand the Book of Common Prayer |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 12-09-2017 |
Same-sex marriage: Melbourne minister speaks out as the Uniting Church debates its position |
Barbara Miller ABC TV ‘Lateline’ videos, text and images |
| 11-09-2017 |
Panel on same-sex marriage: Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio, Revd David Ould, Ali Kadri and Fr Frank Brennan |
‘Lateline’, ABC TV video and transcript |
| 11-09-2017 |
Same-sex marriage debate: Tasmania’s Bishop Richard Condie and LGBTIQ activist Rodney Croome |
ABC Radio Hobart, Mornings with Leon Compton audio, text and images |
| 11-09-2017 |
South Africa is sitting ‘on a powder keg’: Bishop of Johannesburg |
ACNS |
| 10-09-2017 |
Christchurch Cathedral restoration to spur central city regeneration |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ)/stuff.co.nz text and images |
| 09-09-2017 |
Christchurch diocesan synod votes to reinstate quake-damaged Cathedral |
Julanne Clarke-Morris, Anglican Taonga (NZ) text and images |
| 09-09-2017 |
Quake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral to be restored |
New Zealand Herald video and text |
| 09-09-2017 |
Cathedral rebuild: ‘There was an overwhelming “Yes”’ |
Logan Church, Radio New Zealand text and images |
| 08-09-2017 |
General Synod opposes assisted suicide |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 08-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Nigeria Nicholas Okoh to shun next Primates’ Meeting |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 08-09-2017 |
Myanmar is urged to address ‘spiral of violence’ against Rohingya minority |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
North Korean war would be ‘catastrophic’, say Church leaders |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
Thousands dead and millions homeless after floods in South Asia |
Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury: UK economy is in pieces, and needs reform |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
Hurricane Irma wreaks havoc in Caribbean |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
Kenyan election re-run ‘an opportunity for peace’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
Church-backed study counts human cost of huge ‘agribusinesses’ pushing out local farmers |
Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
To sign or not: Nashville Statement on sexuality debate intensifies |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 08-09-2017 |
Confederate general Robert E Lee’s church decides to keep its name despite renewed debate on racism |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 07-09-2017 |
Anglican Church offers formal apology to victims of domestic violence |
Hayley Gleeson, ABC News video, text and images |
| 07-09-2017 |
Domestic violence ‘first priority’ |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 07-09-2017 |
Scots ‘impair’ communion with Australia |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 06-09-2017 |
Bishop Tim Thornton commissioned as new Bishop at Lambeth |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 05-09-2017 |
General Synod passes National child protection rules |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 05-09-2017 |
More than half UK population has no religion, finds survey |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 04-09-2017 |
Archbishop savages Dutton's welfare cuts |
Tracey Ferrier, Australian Associated Press/news.com.au |
| 04-09-2017 |
Anglican Church leader says cuts to asylum seeker welfare support ‘callous’ |
Ben Doherty, The Guardian Australia |
| 04-09-2017 |
Record number of British people say they have no religion |
May Bulman, The Independent (UK) |
| 01-09-2017 |
Seven dead after flu outbreak in St John’s Retirement Village, Wangaratta |
Anna Prytz and Ebony Bowden, with Shana Morgan, The Age/The Border Mail video, text and images |
| 01-09-2017 |
Seven people in Victorian aged care facility die in flu outbreak |
ABC News video, text and images |
| 01-09-2017 |
High-heel lessons for students in regional Victorian Christian schools labelled sexist |
Stephanie Corsetti, ABC News |
| 01-09-2017 |
Bishops taken to court of appeal in Australian Anglican feud |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) text and images |
| 01-09-2017 |
Top woman in Anglican Church has charismatic roots |
Anne Lim, Eternity News |
| 01-09-2017 |
Sydney Anglican church to sing all 500 songs from ‘New English Hymnal’ non-stop to raise funds for new organ |
David Adams, Sight Magazine (Vic) |
| 01-09-2017 |
Nashville statement on sexuality prompts response from LGBT-supporting Christians |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 01-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury pays tribute to late Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 01-09-2017 |
US Catholics and Protestants agree: 500 years after Reformation, they have more in common than not |
Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service (US) |
| 01-09-2017 |
Archbishop of Polynesia addresses festival-goers in England on climate change |
Anglican Taonga (NZ)/ACNS text and images |
| 01-09-2017 |
Diocese wants South Carolina Supreme Court to re-hear case |
Adam Parker, The Post and Courier (Charleston, US) |
| 01-09-2017 |
Canadian Anglicans take part in Season of Creation |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 01-09-2017 |
Contentious Christian-Muslim foster case ‘a sign’ that more carers are needed, charities say |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 31-08-2017 |
Same-sex marriage: John Howard wants more detail on religious exemptions ahead of same-sex marriage survey |
Sabra Lane and Stephanie Dalzell, ABC Radio ‘AM’ video and text |
| 31-08-2017 |
Evensong sees a surge even as British church attendance declines |
Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service (US) |
| 31-08-2017 |
Perth church leaders back ‘yes’ vote for same-sex marriage at launched of Australian Christians for Marriage Equality |
The West Australian/Australian Associated Press video, text and images |
| 31-08-2017 |
The Dean of Perth’s St George’s Cathedral backs a Yes vote in same-sex marriage postal survey |
Nick Butterly, The West Australian video, text and image |
| 31-08-2017 |
Episcopalians in Louisiana and Texas join storm relief effort |
Hattie Williams, Church Times text and images |
| 31-08-2017 |
C of E grammar school faces criticism for removing under-performing pupils |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 30-08-2017 |
Perth’s new Anglican Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy supports same-sex marriage |
Nick Butterly, The West Australian video, text and images |
| 30-08-2017 |
New Anglican Archbishop of Perth supports marriage equality but will not challenge Church |
Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian Australia |
| 30-08-2017 |
Working and weaving together: Anglican-Uniting Church agreement launched at St Paul’s Cathedral |
Crosslight (Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania newspaper) |
| 30-08-2017 |
Book dated 1655 donated to the Brotherhood by mystery donor |
Brotherhood of St Laurence text and images |
| 30-08-2017 |
Slavery in Australia? There are 4300 cases says the Walk Free Foundation |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’ with Andrew West, ABC Radio National audio, text and image |
| 30-08-2017 |
South Sudanese Church flees into exile |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 30-08-2017 |
Breaking the glass ceiling -Australia appoints its first female Anglican Archbishop |
'Religion and Ethics Report' with Andrew West interviewing Archbishop Philip Freier, ABC Radio National audio, text and image |
| 30-08-2017 |
Anglican Church of Canada joins anti-hate pledge |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 29-08-2017 |
Anglican Church elects Australia's first female Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy |
Emily Piesse, ABC News |
| 29-08-2017 |
Churches offer sanctuary to asylum seekers affected by welfare crackdown |
Lexy Hamilton-Smith, ABC News |
| 29-08-2017 |
362-year-old book donated to Melbourne op shop |
3AW audio, text and images |
| 29-08-2017 |
‘Our brothers and sisters in Texas and Louisiana need our help’: Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on Hurricane Harvey |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/Episcopal News Service (US) video and text |
| 29-08-2017 |
Bishop requests prayers as hurricane sweeps through Texas |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 29-08-2017 |
Diocese of West Malaysia calls for prayers for missing pastor and three others |
ACNS |
| 29-08-2017 |
New Primate elected in Indian Ocean |
ACNS |
| 28-08-2017 |
Episcopalians face into ‘catastrophic and life-threatening’ Hurricane Harvey |
Mary Frances Schjonberg and Amy Sowder, ENS videos, text and images |
| 26-08-2017 |
St David’s celebrates 175 years since Bishop’s chair brought to Hobart |
David Beniuk, The Mercury (Tasmania) |
| 26-08-2017 |
Baroness Warsi: ‘Paranoid’ Government must change tack so Muslims feel welcome in Britain |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 26-08-2017 |
Iona Community’s John Bell: ‘Why I came out’ |
Paul Handley, Church Times |
| 25-08-2017 |
Millions left in crisis by heavy flooding in South-East Asia |
Church Times text and image |
| 25-08-2017 |
‘Words not bullets must resolve our problems’: South Sudan Council of Churches |
ACNS |
| 25-08-2017 |
Pressure mounts to remove Confederate symbols from Episcopal institutions |
David Paulsen, ENS text and images |
| 25-08-2017 |
‘An extraordinary chance’ for hope, WCC leader reflects in Wittenberg |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 25-08-2017 |
Episcopal Church joins federal lawsuit over breakaway group in South Carolina |
Episcopal Church in South Carolina/ENS |
| 24-08-2017 |
Christian groups respond to growing Sudanese refugee crisis |
Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service (US) |
| 24-08-2017 |
The future of funerals? Robot priest launched to undercut human-led rites |
Samuel Gibbs, The Guardian (UK) |
| 18-08-2017 |
Shattering the silence: Australians tell their stories of surviving domestic violence in the church |
As told to Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, Radio Australia text |
| 18-08-2017 |
Anglicans express shock and alarm at terrorist attacks in Spain |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 18-08-2017 |
‘Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?’ asks US Presiding Bishop after Charlottesville |
Michael Curry, Anglican Communion News Service blog |
| 18-08-2017 |
Act before racist violence spreads, US bishops urge |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 18-08-2017 |
Visit England report: sharp drop in visitor numbers to churches and cathedrals |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 18-08-2017 |
London church’s plan to limit hire-space upsets musicians |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 17-08-2017 |
Indigenous bishop slams the ‘doctrine of discovery’ |
Anglican Communion News Service/Anglican Board of Mission – Australia text and image |
| 17-08-2017 |
Anglican Church abuse: Paedophile victim's suicide amplifies call for action against Philip Newell |
Rhiannon Shine, ABC News (Tasmania) |
| 17-08-2017 |
Baha`i community and Anglican parish in hills near Perth organise gathering of faiths for peace |
Lauren Peden, Hills Gazette (WA) |
| 17-08-2017 |
Mudslide claims hundreds of lives in Sierra Leone |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 17-08-2017 |
Prayer and action following Sierra Leone landslides |
ACNS |
| 17-08-2017 |
Hong Kong Anglican theological college approved for Bachelors and Masters degrees after partnership with Australian university |
ACNS |
| 17-08-2017 |
India’s faiths commit to ‘just and inclusive communities’ for people with disabilities |
ACNS |
| 17-08-2017 |
Episcopal Church launches ‘Good Book Club’ Bible study for Lent-Pentecost 2018 |
ACNS/Episcopal News Service video and text |
| 17-08-2017 |
A small Episcopal church’s welcome to refugees hits the movie screens |
ACNS video, text and image |
| 17-08-2017 |
Church prepares children to be future leaders in Rwanda |
ACNS text and images |
| 17-08-2017 |
Pastoral Letter – The Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey |
Stuart Robinson, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community |
| 17-08-2017 |
Why are thousands of people who've never set foot in church before suddenly showing up for choral evensong? |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) text and images |
| 16-08-2017 |
How our nation killed Hamed: A former Manus social worker speaks out |
Alice Krupa, New Matilda |
| 16-08-2017 |
Kim Jong-un ‘no longer seen as God’ as worshipping North Koreans ‘place their faith elsewhere’ |
Julian Ryall, The Telegraph (UK) text and images |
| 16-08-2017 |
Welsh electoral college to choose next Archbishop and Primate |
ACNS |
| 15-08-2017 |
Melbourne’s Roman Catholic Archbishop says he'd rather go to jail than report child abuse heard in confession |
Melissa Davey, The Guardian Australia |
| 15-08-2017 |
A priest's perspective: Why I wouldn't report a confession to police |
ABC News |
| 15-08-2017 |
Same-sex marriage ‘on a knife edge’ |
Anne Lim, Eternity |
| 15-08-2017 |
Synod to consider gifting Christchurch Cathedral to New Zealand Government |
ACNS |
| 15-08-2017 |
Anglican Church of Kenya calls for elections audit |
David Mwere, Daily Nation (Kenya) |
| 14-08-2017 |
Royal Commission releases its Criminal Justice Report, including recommendations on failure to report and the religious confessional and failure to protect a child within an institution |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 14-08-2017 |
Child abuse royal commission calls for dozens of law changes including new confession rules |
Stephanie Anderson and Jane Braslin, ABC News |
| 14-08-2017 |
Child sex abuse: How the Royal Commission plans to protect kids |
Danny Tran, ABC News |
| 14-08-2017 |
Child abuse inquiry recommends an end to Seal of the Confessional |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 14-08-2017 |
Australian church abuse: Priests ‘must report’ confessions |
BBC News audio, text and images |
| 14-08-2017 |
Coalition for Marriage website launched |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 14-08-2017 |
Charlottesville clergy hold anti-racism prayer meeting |
ACNS |
| 14-08-2017 |
Anglican synod to consider gifting Christ Church Cathedral to the people of NZ |
The Press (NZ)/stuff.co.nz |
| 14-08-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury backs ‘sex-workers’ charity |
ACNS |
| 14-08-2017 |
Anglican Church installs 14th Bishop of Sarawak and Brunei |
Matthew Umpang, Borneo Post (Malaysia) |
| 14-08-2017 |
Pretoria bishop sues for slander |
Ntando Makhubu and Zelda Venter, Independent Online (IOL, South Africa) |
| 13-08-2017 |
Low-income families would benefit from proposals in review of Victorian energy markets, says Brotherhood of St Laurence |
Brotherhood of St Laurence media release |
| 13-08-2017 |
Prince of Wales donates to help save Malta cathedral |
Olivia Rudgard, The Sunday Telegraph (UK) |
| 12-08-2017 |
Anglican Church to consecrate and enthrone new bishop for Sarawak and Brunei |
Borneo Post (Malaysia) |
| 11-08-2017 |
‘Testing but wonderful’ – Archbishop Welby reflects on Sudan and Uganda trip |
ACNS text and images |
| 11-08-2017 |
Priests could be authorised to offer same-sex blessings in New Zealand |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 11-08-2017 |
Church of England is ‘abandoning’ the poorest areas, Bishop Philip North warns |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times audio, text and images |
| 11-08-2017 |
Don’t delay in tightening gambling machine regulation, UK Bishop urges |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 11-08-2017 |
Stakes very high in Kenya ballot, says Christian Aid |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 10-08-2017 |
National Council of Churches in Korea issues emergency letter to South Korean President Moon |
World Council of Churches text and image |
| 10-08-2017 |
Bishop of Liverpool Paul Bayes ‘disturbed’ by north-south life-expectancy divide |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 10-08-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury becomes patron of charity Charis Tiwala, a ministry to women in the sex industry |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 09-08-2017 |
North Korea releases Canadian pastor sentenced to life in prison |
Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service (US) |
| 08-08-2017 |
Why Sunshine Coast church groups fear climate change |
Bill Hoffman, Sunshine Coast Daily (Qld) |
| 08-08-2017 |
Martin Place tent city: Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore warns against heavy-handed approach |
The Guardian Australia videos, text and images |
| 08-08-2017 |
WCC call for peaceful democratic process in Kenya |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 07-08-2017 |
Bendigo meeting of Australian Cathedral Deans discusses ministry among children, advocates adoption of national Child Safe Standards |
St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne text and image |
| 07-08-2017 |
Headmaster appointed to lead Sydney Diocese’s Education Commission |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 07-08-2017 |
Archbishop says ‘follow your conscience’ as South Africa prepares for Zuma vote |
ACNS |
| 07-08-2017 |
Church of South India urged to ‘go greener’ |
ACNS |
| 07-08-2017 |
Nigeria is sitting on time-bomb, Anglican Church warns Government |
Ernest Chinwo, This Day (Nigeria)/AllAfrica |
| 07-08-2017 |
Kenyans pray for peaceful polls to avoid repeat of deadly post-election violence |
Daniel Finnan, RFI (France) English-language audio, text and image |
| 07-08-2017 |
Congo Bishop expresses sadness at break-in |
ACNS |
| 06-08-2017 |
Bill fails religious protection test |
Diocese of Sydney media statement |
| 04-08-2017 |
Class divide at church must be addressed, new study suggests |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 04-08-2017 |
Church of England urged to rethink teaching on sexuality as 1967 Act remembered |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 04-08-2017 |
Scripture Union launches campaign to reach the 95 per cent of unchurched children in England and Wales |
Church Times |
| 04-08-2017 |
Archbishop Welby hails Anglican Communion’s 39th and newest Province: Sudan |
Hattie Williams, Church Times text and images |
| 04-08-2017 |
C of E General Synod groupings rebut claims they are taking over the Crown Nominations Commission |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 03-08-2017 |
Church institutions address gender gap as men found to out-earn women |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 02-08-2017 |
Euthanasia: Illness derails campaign of high-profile advocate Andrew Denton |
Farrah Tomazin, The Age video, text and images |
| 02-08-2017 |
Religious instruction furore sparks Education Queensland review |
Felicity Caldwell, Brisbane Times |
| 02-08-2017 |
Major inquiry on voluntary euthanasia does not recommend law change |
Isaac Davison, New Zealand Herald video and text |
| 02-08-2017 |
Call for income equality ahead of New Zealand’s General Election |
ACNS |
| 02-08-2017 |
Celebrating growth and understanding culture – Anglican Communion Secretary General reflects on his second year in office |
Anglican Communion News Service transcript and image |
| 02-08-2017 |
Mothers’ Union ‘the heart and love of the Church’, says Archbishop Welby |
ACNS |
| 02-08-2017 |
Hearing panel calls for Los Angeles bishop’s suspension, return of congregation to its building |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 02-08-2017 |
South Carolina Supreme Court says most local property belongs to the Episcopal Church |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 02-08-2017 |
Iranian Christian Maryam Naghash Zargaran released after four years in prison |
World Watch Monitor (UK) text and image |
| 01-08-2017 |
NSW Premier says homeless people in Martin Place make her ‘completely uncomfortable’ |
The Guardian Australia/Australian Associated Press |
| 01-08-2017 |
Commemorations held to mark Great War centenaries |
Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 01-08-2017 |
Chinese Christian churches targeted in religious crackdown |
Katrina Yu, SBS video, text and images |
| 01-08-2017 |
Canadian Anglicans step up fight against human trafficking |
ACNS |
| 01-08-2017 |
US Presiding Bishop removes disputed congregation from Los Angeles bishop’s authority |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 01-08-2017 |
Former archbishop probed over how disgraced priest John Mountford fled Adelaide in 1992 |
Alice Monfries, Nine News videos, text and images |
| 31-07-2017 |
Victorian bishops say assisted dying laws will abandon those ‘in greatest need’ |
Adam Carey, The Age |
| 31-07-2017 |
Archbishop Welby preaches at inauguration of new Province of Sudan |
Lambeth Palace transcript and images |
| 31-07-2017 |
Video: Archbishop of Canterbury with Archbishop Ezekiel Kondo, first Primate of the new Anglican Province of Sudan |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 31-07-2017 |
US Presiding Bishop hits out at President Trump’s transgender ban |
ACNS |
| 31-07-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury: my heart breaks for Charlie Gard's family |
Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian (UK) |
| 31-07-2017 |
Chance of Brexit in 2019 ‘infinitesimally small’, says Archbishop Welby |
BBC News audio |
| 31-07-2017 |
Inquiries continue after C of E vicar found dead in rectory |
ACNS |
| 31-07-2017 |
Celebrations as Sudan becomes Anglican Communion’s 39th province |
ACNS |
| 30-07-2017 |
Scripture stays in school time: NSW Labor |
Perry Duffin, Australian Associated Press/news.com.au |
| 30-07-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury declares Sudan new Anglican province |
7 News/Agence France-Presse |
| 28-07-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury in Sudan for Province’s ‘hopeful’ launch |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 28-07-2017 |
Why ‘dogmatic’ atheists think they are right about religion: study |
Mark Molloy, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 28-07-2017 |
Service of Lament and Thanksgiving held for Grenfell Tower victims |
ACNS text and image |
| 28-07-2017 |
Southwark diocese signals opposition to rebel Bishop Andy Lines by withdrawing permission to officiate |
Christian Today (UK) |
| 28-07-2017 |
Episcopal Church leaders oppose Trump’s ban on transgender people in military |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 28-07-2017 |
Archaeologists find more evidence of Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem |
Michele Chabin, Religion News Service (US) |
| 27-07-2017 |
Domestic violence and the Christian Church: the Revd Dr Gordon Preece |
20Twenty with Neil Johnson, Vision Christian Radio audio |
| 27-07-2017 |
Unholy row over religious instruction in Queensland schools |
Felicity Caldwell, Brisbane Times |
| 27-07-2017 |
Joint Statement by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on the 50th anniversary of decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 26-07-2017 |
Anglican Church won't license reinstated clergymen |
Tim Howard, The Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW) |
| 26-07-2017 |
Controversial clergy back in Holy Orders |
Tim Howard, The Daily Examiner |
| 26-07-2017 |
A joyous day in Juba as the first internal provincial Archbishop is enthroned |
ACNS text and images |
| 26-07-2017 |
Anglican Centre in Rome seeks Deputy Director |
ACNS |
| 25-07-2017 |
Queen’s former chaplain leads vicar rebellion over gay marriage |
Camilla Turner, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 25-07-2017 |
Scottish cathedral becomes first in the UK to allow same-sex marriages |
Samuel Osborne, The Independent (UK) |
| 25-07-2017 |
Anglican Diocese of Bendigo set to host 2017 Anglican Deans of Australia Conference |
Emma D'Agostino, Bendigo Advertiser |
| 25-07-2017 |
Religious leaders occupy environment minister's office to protest Carmichael coalmine |
Michael Slezak, The Guardian Australia video, text and images |
| 25-07-2017 |
Conservative Evangelicals speak of alternative ‘structures’ to rival C of E in post-Synod statement |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 25-07-2017 |
Video: 1000 responses to the housing crisis: hearing God’s call to be hospitable, creative and compassionate |
Diocese of Wellington (NZ) video |
| 22-07-2017 |
Australian church leaders call for urgent response to domestic violence |
Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, ABC News videos, text and images |
| 21-07-2017 |
Euthanasia: New laws could see Victorians get lethal medicine within 10 days |
Aisha Dow and Adam Carey, The Age |
| 21-07-2017 |
Domestic violence in the name of God: A bishop’s response |
Matt Brain, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community |
| 21-07-2017 |
Most Christians in Australia support marriage equality and want a free vote |
Gareth Hutchens, The Guardian Australia |
| 21-07-2017 |
English same-sex couple among those to wed in Glasgow cathedral first |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 20-07-2017 |
Timeline of statements on Domestic Violence |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 20-07-2017 |
My father would have blessed same-sex couples, British PM Theresa May suggests |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 20-07-2017 |
Adelaide Archbishop Geoff Smith's response to ABC report on domestic violence |
Adelaide Anglicans text |
| 19-07-2017 |
Christian women told to endure domestic abuse |
Julia Baird and Paige MacKenzie, ‘7.30’, ABC TV video and transcript |
| 19-07-2017 |
Prime Minister May: The Church of England should ‘reflect’ on allowing gay couples to marry |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 19-07-2017 |
Theresa May says Tories will not ‘go backwards’ on gay rights |
BBC News |
| 19-07-2017 |
Young Anglicans in South Africa create garden on ‘Mandela Day’ |
ACNS |
| 18-07-2017 |
‘Submit to your husbands’: Women told to endure domestic violence in the name of God |
Julia Baird with Hayley Gleeson, ABC News videos, text and graphics |
| 18-07-2017 |
Church enabling and concealing domestic violence: advocates |
ABC ‘RN Breakfast’ audio with Fran Kelly, Julia Baird and Kylie Pidgeon |
| 18-07-2017 |
Evangelical Christians the most and least likely to commit domestic violence |
Julia Baird, Michael Jensen and Ros Childs, ABC News video |
| 18-07-2017 |
Mothers’ Union holiday offer for families affected by London tower block blaze |
Mothers’ Union (UK)/ACNS |
| 18-07-2017 |
Episcopal Church of Cuba working with communities to transform lives |
ACNS |
| 17-07-2017 |
Crooks hit church twice in a week, stealing valuable bluestone blocks |
Andrew Rogers, Manningham Leader text and image |
| 17-07-2017 |
NZ to host conference on human trafficking |
Anglican Taonga (NZ)/ACNS |
| 17-07-2017 |
Anglican Communion Office seeks Director for Theological Education |
ACNS |
| 17-07-2017 |
First meeting of Mexico's ordained women |
ACNS |
| 17-07-2017 |
Launch of the new Oxford History of Anglicanism |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-07-2017 |
New bishop urges diocese to move on after sexuality row |
Alex Williams, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 15-07-2017 |
Religion is the new frontier in workplace discrimination |
Andrew West, ABC News/Radio National ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ video, audio, text and images |
| 15-07-2017 |
Questions over sinfulness of gay sex forced me to quit as UK’s Lib Dem leader: Tim Farron |
Arj Singh, Belfast Telegraph (UK) |
| 14-07-2017 |
Census 2016: ABS reveals Canberra's most religious and most godless suburbs |
Doug Dingwall, The Canberra Times text, image and graphics |
| 14-07-2017 |
Mosul faces a long road to recovery after liberation from Islamic State, say agencies |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 14-07-2017 |
Four Christians jailed in Iran for 10 years each |
Christian Solidarity Worldwide/ACNS |
| 14-07-2017 |
Celebration of achievements of Hong Kong at St John’s Cathedral |
Anglican Communion News Service text and image |
| 14-07-2017 |
Archaeological test lends credibility to find of ‘St Columba’s cell’ on Iona |
David Keys, Church Times |
| 14-07-2017 |
Leading evangelical condemns C of E General Synod: ‘God's word was mocked openly’ |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 14-07-2017 |
President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference visit Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 14-07-2017 |
Archbishop Welby licenses new Archdeacon to the British Army |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 13-07-2017 |
C of E General Synod votes signal a shift in power, campaigners say |
Church Times |
| 13-07-2017 |
The Church of England is in ‘grave spiritual danger’, warns Archbishop |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today |
| 13-07-2017 |
USPG appeals for funds to stop child slavery in India |
United Society Partners in the Gospel (UK)/ACNS |
| 12-07-2017 |
God or godless? It probably depends on your age and where you live |
Catherine Hanrahan, ABC News text, image and graphics |
| 12-07-2017 |
Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Australia commends Archbishop Davies and Bishop Condie for their involvement in the consecration of Andy Lines |
Kanishka Raffel, GAFCON |
| 12-07-2017 |
Could this church be reborn as a community hub? |
Tom O’Callaghan, Bendigo Advertiser |
| 12-07-2017 |
First Church of England female bishop from a minority ethnic community |
ACNS |
| 12-07-2017 |
Guli Francis-Dehqani, refugee from Iran, to be first Bishop of Loughborough |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 12-07-2017 |
Rash of sentences ‘shows Government’s fear of growth of Christianity in Iran’ |
World Watch Monitor (UK) |
| 12-07-2017 |
Growth in numbers opting to be pioneering missionaries |
Church Mission Society (UK)/ACNS text and images |
| 12-07-2017 |
British Columbia Anglicans among those displaced by wildfires |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 11-07-2017 |
Freedom laws needed |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 11-07-2017 |
St Vincent's won't offer assisted dying in Victoria even if it's legalised |
SBS/Australian Associated Press |
| 11-07-2017 |
Persian woman to be first female bishop from a minority ethnic community in the Church of England |
Pete Bate, Diocese of Lichfield (UK) media release |
| 11-07-2017 |
Church ends ban on full Christian funerals for suicides |
Eno Adeogun, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 11-07-2017 |
GAFCON Chairman’s July 2017 letter |
Nicholas Okoh, Global Anglican Future Conference text |
| 11-07-2017 |
Gender-based violence concerns ‘all of humanity’ |
Peter Kenny, WCC |
| 10-07-2017 |
Clergy can dress down after church votes to let them ditch vestments |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 10-07-2017 |
Clergy to ditch their robes in further sign of dress-down Britain |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 10-07-2017 |
WCC urges commitment to security for all in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain |
World Council of Churches text and image |
| 10-07-2017 |
Kiwis publish interim report aimed at keeping Anglicans with different views on same-sex blessings together |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 10-07-2017 |
Christian charity condemns killing of two Vietnamese seafarers |
ACNS |
| 10-07-2017 |
LA bishop loses appeal against sanctions as Church board considers disciplinary case |
David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 09-07-2017 |
Anglican Church to vote on ‘welcoming transgender people’ |
The Guardian (UK)/Press Association |
| 08-07-2017 |
Church of England could ditch mitres over claims ‘they look silly’ |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 07-07-2017 |
Two new bishops for Polynesia, including first for Tonga |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) text and images with link to video |
| 07-07-2017 |
Australia’s most religious and non-religious postcodes based on who answered the Census question regarding religion |
Matt Young and Charis Chang, news.com.au video, text and graphics |
| 07-07-2017 |
Beware C of E free-for-all, new GAFCON Bishop to Europe Andy Lines warns |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 07-07-2017 |
Anglican churches urged to think of seafarers this Sunday |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 07-07-2017 |
Reformed churches endorse Catholic-Lutheran accord on key Reformation dispute |
Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service (US) |
| 07-07-2017 |
Emails reveal Welsh Bishops’ anxieties over potential appointment of gay dean Jeffrey John |
Church Times |
| 06-07-2017 |
Plaque helps to solve puzzle of Pilbara church |
Tom Zaunmayr, The West Australian video, text and images |
| 06-07-2017 |
Three Christians in Iran given long jail terms |
Middle East Concern/ACNS |
| 06-07-2017 |
New Bishop announced on island of Borneo |
ACNS |
| 06-07-2017 |
Popularity of exorcisms may lead to ‘spiritual abuse’, British think-tanks warns |
Jamie Seidel, News Corp Australia Network video, text and image |
| 05-07-2017 |
Getting religion at the G20 |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio, text and images |
| 05-07-2017 |
NSW historical society outraged by potential sale of Camden’s St John’s Anglican Church land and rectory |
Daniel McGookin, Macarthur Chronicle Camden (NSW) text and images |
| 05-07-2017 |
Archbishops criticised for inviting proposer of Scottish gay-marriage motion to York |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 05-07-2017 |
WCC hails Wittenberg declaration aiming to overcome Reformation divisions |
Stephen Brown, World Council of Churches text and images |
| 04-07-2017 |
Bathurst Anglican assets to be sold to fund $2m sex abuse payouts |
Murray Nicholls, Western Advocate (NSW) |
| 04-07-2017 |
NZ Government offers new deal to break Christ Church Cathedral deadlock |
Nick Truebridge and Michael Wright, The Press (NZ) video, text and images |
| 04-07-2017 |
Diocese of Mauritius examines ‘The Silent Epidemic’ of gender-based violence |
ACNS |
| 03-07-2017 |
Australian support for Missionary Bishop |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 02-07-2017 |
Obama urges end to division in childhood home Indonesia |
Fransiska Nangoy, Religion News Service (US) |
| 02-07-2017 |
Atheists are less open-minded than religious people, study claims |
Greg Wilford, The Independent (UK) |
| 02-07-2017 |
Gender-based violence is affliction for church and society, says leading WCC official |
WCC |
| 02-07-2017 |
Northern Ireland's gay marriage ban is un-Christian, says minister |
Henry McDonald, The Guardian (UK) |
| 01-07-2017 |
Christian, Jewish and Muslim students take part in interreligious summer school |
World Council Churches/ACNS |
| 30-06-2017 |
Ball survivors say police should quiz Lord Carey |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 30-06-2017 |
Conservatives take on their bishops in England’s north and east |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 30-06-2017 |
Canadians have positive view of role of religion in their communities, sesquicentennial poll finds |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 29-06-2017 |
Video: End of Life Choices |
Peter Singer and Margaret Somerville, University of Divinity Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy/YouTube |
| 29-06-2017 |
Episcopal Migration Ministries’ director responds to US travel ban’s ‘relationship’ stipulation |
Episcopal Migration Ministries/Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 29-06-2017 |
US Presiding Bishop places ‘partial restriction’ on LA bishop over failed land sale |
David Paulsen, ENS |
| 28-06-2017 |
Census data: Inside the Melbourne suburb leading the ‘no religion’ surge |
Jackson Gothe-Snape, SBS videos, text and images |
| 28-06-2017 |
Churches a ‘true witness’ amid plight of refugees |
Conference of European Churches/ACNS |
| 28-06-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at service for the new UK Parliament |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 28-06-2017 |
New unity scheme for England proposes Methodist bishops and ‘anomalous’ priests |
Paul Handley, Church Times |
| 28-06-2017 |
New Canons installed in Jerusalem during Anglican pilgrimage to Holy Land |
Alice Wu, ACNS text and images |
| 28-06-2017 |
Resign if you are incapacitated, Anglican Church urges Nigerian President Buhari |
Emmanuel Uzodinma, Daily Post (Nigeria) |
| 28-06-2017 |
Print edition, editorial independence of Canada’s Anglican Journal up for review |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal |
| 27-06-2017 |
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey resigns from church role after historical abuse review |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 27-06-2017 |
Church of England and Methodists to consider full communion |
ACNS |
| 22-06-2017 |
Statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Bishop Peter Ball abuse report |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 19-06-2017 |
Archbishop Welby condemns attack on Muslims in Finsbury Park |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 19-06-2017 |
Two Anglican agencies join Australian Government's humanitarian response |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-06-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at ‘service of hope’ after London Bridge attack |
Lambeth Palace transcript and images |
| 16-06-2017 |
Former doctor in New Zealand to return there as a bishop |
ACNS |
| 13-06-2017 |
Lambeth Palace presentation ceremony for Archbishop of Canterbury's Awards |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 09-06-2017 |
UK General Election: Archbishop of Canterbury’s statement |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 06-06-2017 |
ABC devalues religion reporting at its peril |
Rohan Salmond, Eureka Street |
| 04-06-2017 |
Justin Welby on the London attacks |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 02-06-2017 |
Anglican Church in Carmichael mine heartland to divest from fossil fuels |
Joshua Robertson, The Guardian Australia |
| 02-06-2017 |
Church leaders express regret over US climate change decision |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 02-06-2017 |
Paris climate deal: Church of England bishop with responsibility for environment condemns Trump's decision |
Church of England media release |
| 02-06-2017 |
Strong religious reaction to Trump climate accord decision |
Madeleine Buckley and Jerome Socolovsky, Religion News Service (US) |
| 02-06-2017 |
Republican Congressman on climate change: God will ‘take care of it’ if it’s real |
Eliza Collins, RNS |
| 02-06-2017 |
‘Wave of prayer’ goes global |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 02-06-2017 |
Defiant Manchester remembers victims one week after deadly bombing |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times text and images |
| 02-06-2017 |
Killing of Coptic Christians draws swift Egyptian retaliation |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 02-06-2017 |
Parties fish for final votes, as UK polling day draws near |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 02-06-2017 |
Remember plight of refugees amid election, urges Bishop of Durham |
Church of England media release |
| 02-06-2017 |
Archbishops plead for one humanity at German Kirchentag |
Anli Serfontein, Church Times |
| 01-06-2017 |
Melbourne Catholics and Anglicans look towards a church fully reconciled |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne Media and Communications Office text and image |
| 01-06-2017 |
New look for General Synod website |
Anglican Church of Australia |
| 01-06-2017 |
Perth Anglicans insist sex offenders sign pledge |
Nick Butterly, The West Australian |
| 01-06-2017 |
Presiding Bishop responds to Trump’s decision to pull US out of worldwide climate accord |
Episcopal News Service (US) transcript |
| 01-06-2017 |
Church of England wins ExxonMobil climate change battle |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 01-06-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury gives BBC Radio 4 ‘Thought For The Day’ |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 01-06-2017 |
Pakistan religious leaders emphasise interfaith harmony for ‘guaranteed long-term peace’ |
ACNS |
| 01-06-2017 |
Jewish congregation finds new home in Episcopal Church |
ACNS |
| 01-06-2017 |
Pope calls for intellectual conversion over climate |
Andrew Hamilton, Eureka Street |
| 31-05-2017 |
Gippsland Anglican Synod: Bishop Kay Goldsworthy’s President’s Address and Resolutions of Synod |
Diocese of Gippsland texts |
| 31-05-2017 |
Religion faces an uncertain future at the ABC with recent restructuring move |
Robert Hiini , The Catholic Weekly (NSW) |
| 31-05-2017 |
Coptic Christians facing deportation get reprieve from Government |
Rashida Yosufzai, SBS video, text and image |
| 31-05-2017 |
Fears that Coptic Christians facing deportation to Egypt will face Islamic State |
Louise Yaxley, ABC News |
| 31-05-2017 |
Liberal MP Tim Wilson blames failure to pass same-sex marriage for 'silliness' over Margaret Court comments |
Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 31-05-2017 |
Bishop Greg Anderson’s Presidential Charge to the Northern Territory Synod |
Diocese of the Northern Territory transcript |
| 31-05-2017 |
Churches mobilised as Sri Lanka floods death toll passes 200 |
ACNS |
| 31-05-2017 |
Costa Rican Anglicans urged to live their faith naturally |
ACNS video, text and images |
| 30-05-2017 |
Anglicans and Roman Catholics, meeting in city where Luther lived, agree on ecclesiology statement |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 30-05-2017 |
Communiqué from the meeting of ARCIC III in Bildungshaus St Ursula, Erfurt, Germany |
ACNS text and image |
| 30-05-2017 |
Anglicans, Catholics in Erfurt: ‘Walking together on the way’ |
Vatican Radio audio and text |
| 30-05-2017 |
Prayer and solidarity after another terror attack on Coptic Christians |
ACNS |
| 30-05-2017 |
Robot priest unveiled in Germany to mark 500 years since Reformation |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) video and text |
| 30-05-2017 |
Canadian Anglicans call 22-day campaign to focus on Indigenous Healing Fund |
Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 30-05-2017 |
United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) chief Janette O’Neill to step down |
ACNS |
| 29-05-2017 |
Reformation is ‘GPS’ for next 500 years, says South African Anglican leader in Luther’s town |
World Council of Churches text and image |
| 27-05-2017 |
Bendigo’s Bishop Andrew Curnow delivers final address to Synod |
Diocese of Bendigo transcript |
| 27-05-2017 |
Bishop John Parkes’ Presidential Address to Wangaratta Synod |
Diocese of Wangaratta transcript |
| 27-05-2017 |
Sermon on the occasion of the Diocese of Wangaratta Synod Eucharist, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Wangaratta |
John Parkes, Diocese of Wangaratta transcript |
| 26-05-2017 |
Margaret Court Arena name change called for after star's Qantas boycott over gay marriage support |
ABC News |
| 26-05-2017 |
Sydney’s Professional Standards Unit to introduce online safe ministry training |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 26-05-2017 |
Brisbane war chaplain’s history preserved online |
Anglican Church of Southern Queensland |
| 26-05-2017 |
Twenty-eight killed in gun attack on Coptic Christians |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 26-05-2017 |
Cathedrals respond to ‘critical’ threat level |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 26-05-2017 |
Church of England Commissioners report strong 17-per-cent return on investments |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 26-05-2017 |
Obama, Merkel at Brandenburg Gate as German Protestant Kirchentag opens to call for renewal of global order |
WCC/ACNS text and image |
| 26-05-2017 |
Church of Scotland in step towards conducting same-sex marriages |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 26-05-2017 |
Kirk backs same-sex marriage in church, and formal apology to LGBT people |
Brian Donnelly, The Herald (Scotland) |
| 26-05-2017 |
USPG stands with Philippines' church following ‘illegal arrest’ of bishop |
United Society Partners in the Gospel (UK)/ACNS |
| 26-05-2017 |
Landmines at River Jordan baptismal site to be cleared from September |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 26-05-2017 |
Tension with C of E after Columba Declaration easing, says Scottish Episcopal Primus |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 25-05-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury on the launch of Thy Kingdom Come |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 25-05-2017 |
Former US President Obama, Chancellor Merkel and Archbishop Welby send message to Manchester |
Lambeth Palace/YouTube video |
| 25-05-2017 |
We will repair damage done to our city and its people, bishop tells Manchester |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times text and images |
| 25-05-2017 |
Christchurch Mayor urges NZ Government to buy and restore Cathedral if deal with Anglican Church falls through |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ) |
| 25-05-2017 |
Who has power over the Christ Church Cathedral? |
Charlie Gates, The Press |
| 25-05-2017 |
Christian Conference of Asia condemns declaration of martial law in Mindanao in southern Philippines |
ACNS |
| 25-05-2017 |
Anglican Church playing key role in tackling malaria in southern Africa |
ACNS |
| 25-05-2017 |
Kirk's General Assembly moves towards allowing gay marriage |
BBC News |
| 25-05-2017 |
Kirk agrees to apologise for failing to recognise gay people |
SHÂN ROSS, THE SCOTSMAN |
| 24-05-2017 |
Water access in Zimbabwe key theme at Lambeth Palace round-table discussion |
ACNS text and images |
| 24-05-2017 |
Zimbabwe: Anglican quartet dumps rebel Bishop Kunonga |
Fidelis Munyoro, The Herald (Zimbabwe)/allafrica.com |
| 23-05-2017 |
Bishop Condie seeks to protect vulnerable Tasmanians |
Anglican Media Tasmania media release |
| 23-05-2017 |
Bomb will not destroy ‘fantastic, diverse’ Manchester, bishop asserts |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 23-05-2017 |
Bishop of Manchester offers prayers after suicide attack |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 23-05-2017 |
Fate of quake-damaged NZ Cathedral to be decided in September |
ACNS |
| 23-05-2017 |
Church of South India expresses ‘anguish’ over Government backing for genetically-modified food product |
ACNS |
| 22-05-2017 |
Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson given standing ovation in moving tribute |
Joanne McCarthy, Newcastle Herald (NSW) video, text and images |
| 22-05-2017 |
A Service of Praise and Thanksgiving for the Episcopal Ministry of Bishop Greg Thompson |
Diocese of Newcastle (NSW) text and images |
| 19-05-2017 |
Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson to be farewelled at Christ Church Cathedral |
Joanne McCarthy, Newcastle Herald |
| 19-05-2017 |
Aid is good for the world — and good for us, say UK party leaders |
Ed Thornton, Church Times (UK) |
| 19-05-2017 |
A joint commitment to our neighbours overseas: British party leaders on the importance of international development |
Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron, Church Times |
| 19-05-2017 |
Congregations are offered a heap of election guidance |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 19-05-2017 |
Election is not just about voting for winners, says Green priest |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 19-05-2017 |
Irregular Jesmond consecration undermining the gospel, says evangelical bishop |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 19-05-2017 |
Religious statistics: ‘Nones’ numerous but a committed Anglican core is flourishing |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 19-05-2017 |
Church of England urged to pull out of fossil fuels |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 19-05-2017 |
Scholars begin to unlock mystery of lead books found in Jordan in 2011 |
Paul Handley and Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 19-05-2017 |
Two Iranian Christians to face court hearing |
Middle East Concern/ACNS |
| 19-05-2017 |
Amplifying the Christian voice in a secular Europe |
Conference of European Churches/ACNS |
| 18-05-2017 |
New Primate for the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East |
ACNS text and image |
| 18-05-2017 |
Worldwide preparations ahead of Thy Kingdom Come global prayer campaign |
ACNS |
| 18-05-2017 |
WCC calls for Pentecost prayer for just peace in the Holy Land |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 17-05-2017 |
Hundreds of thousands worldwide prepare to pray Thy Kingdom Come |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 17-05-2017 |
Penny Wong takes aim at religious ‘fundamentalism’ blocking same-sex marriage |
Michael Koziol, The Age |
| 17-05-2017 |
Lou Richards, Collingwood champion and media star, farewelled at state funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral |
Stephanie Chalkley-Rhoden, ABC News video, text and images |
| 17-05-2017 |
Young Anglicans go into training to help Pacific communities adapt to climate change |
ACNS |
| 17-05-2017 |
Religious minorities in Bangladesh ‘victims of intolerance and persecution’ |
Christian Conference of Asia/ACNS |
| 17-05-2017 |
Appeal for assistance following Peru floods |
United Society Partners in the Gospel (UK)/ACNS |
| 17-05-2017 |
Episcopalians, Methodists in US propose full-communion agreement |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 16-05-2017 |
ABM launches appeal for child nutrition project in Gaza |
Anglican Board of Mission – Australia/ACNS |
| 16-05-2017 |
Child abuse royal commission: Justice McClellan warns churches to change or risk illegitimacy |
Paul Kennedy, ABC News video and text |
| 16-05-2017 |
Royal Commission has led to more than 100 child abuse prosecutions so far, says head |
Melissa Davey, The Guardian Australia |
| 16-05-2017 |
Royal Commission Chair Justice Peter McClellan addresses National Council of Churches in Australia |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse video and transcript |
| 16-05-2017 |
Canadian bishops block consecration of diocesan bishop over his views |
Anglican Church of Canada/ACNS |
| 16-05-2017 |
New Prime Bishop elected for The Episcopal Church in the Philippines |
Episcopal News Service (US)/ACNS |
| 15-05-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury praises ‘bridge-building’ Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem |
Anglican Communion News Service text and image |
| 15-05-2017 |
Condemnation of bishop's arrest in Philippines |
Christian Conference of Asia/ACNS |
| 15-05-2017 |
US Presiding Bishop urges the Church to ‘wake up’ |
M Dion Thompson, Diocese of Maryland (US)/ENS |
| 15-05-2017 |
President Trump’s youngest son, Barron, to attend Maryland’s St Andrew’s Episcopal School |
ENS text and image |
| 15-05-2017 |
WCC General Secretary hails Lutheran ecumenical efforts |
World Council of Churches/ACNS |
| 14-05-2017 |
Anglican Church congregation numbers have ‘stabilised’: UK report |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 14-05-2017 |
Nearly 50% are of no religion – but has UK hit ‘peak secular’? |
Harriet Sherwood, The Observer (UK) |
| 14-05-2017 |
A quarter of non-religious Britons pray, report reveals |
St Mary’s University, Twickenham (UK), media release |
| 13-05-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury concludes visit to the Holy Land |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 12-05-2017 |
Welby speaks of his hopes for the Middle East peace process |
Gavin Drake, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 12-05-2017 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release, transcript and images |
| 12-05-2017 |
Holy Land church caught up in conflict now a ‘symbol of renewal and life’: Canterbury |
ACNS |
| 12-05-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury speaks with young people in Israel about reconciliation |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 12-05-2017 |
English parish robust in defence of its new curate-bishop |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 12-05-2017 |
Justin Welby is a heretic, say breakaway conservative Anglicans |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 12-05-2017 |
South Sudan: visit by Pope and Welby stirs hope |
Joe Ware, Church Times text and images |
| 12-05-2017 |
‘Stability’ is from Benedict, not Theresa, says Welby |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 12-05-2017 |
New President Emmanuel Macron must tackle France’s problems, say RC bishops |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 12-05-2017 |
British PM makes pledge on mental health |
Church Times |
| 12-05-2017 |
Seafarer mental health branded ‘a serious concern’ |
Mission to Seafarers (UK)/ACNS |
| 12-05-2017 |
‘Optimistic’ Bishop in Europe sees charity’s work in Serbian camp |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 11-05-2017 |
Anglican-Roman Catholic Evensong a first for Melbourne’s St Paul’s Cathedral |
St Paul’s Cathedral text and image |
| 11-05-2017 |
Theresa May tells how her Christian faith sustained her after she realised she could not become a mother |
Christopher Hope, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 10-05-2017 |
Justin Welby: ‘Moment of opportunity’ near in Middle East conflict |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 10-05-2017 |
Blueprint for Church schism revealed as conservative Christian leaders plot separate Anglican structure |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 10-05-2017 |
Disadvantaged communities in Burundi given major boost by Mothers' Union |
Mothers’ Union/ACNS |
| 10-05-2017 |
Lutherans from around the world gather in Namibia |
WCC/ACNS |
| 09-05-2017 |
Emergency Appeal for victims of Tropical Cyclone Donna |
ACNS |
| 09-05-2017 |
Anglican orders not ‘invalid’ says Cardinal, opening way for revision of current Roman Catholic position |
Christopher Lamb, The Tablet (UK) |
| 09-05-2017 |
Primate announced for Sudan – the Anglican Communion's newest Province |
ACNS |
| 09-05-2017 |
Former US bishop convicted of manslaughter denied parole |
Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 09-05-2017 |
Hymns at funerals dying out as ‘celebratory’ pop songs become more popular |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 09-05-2017 |
Church of England issues warning against conservative minister consecrated as rebel bishop |
Harry Farley, Christian Today |
| 08-05-2017 |
English vicar warns against trying to discipline curate ordained bishop by breakaway church |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 08-05-2017 |
Conservative British Anglicans consecrate their own bishop |
George Conger, Anglican Ink (US) |
| 08-05-2017 |
Statement on the consecration at Jesmond Parish Church |
GAFCON UK media release |
| 08-05-2017 |
Anglican permanent representative to UN in Geneva sought |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 07-05-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at St George's Cathedral in Jerusalem |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 06-05-2017 |
Pastoral Letter to the Parishes and Chaplaincies of the Church of England on the 2017 British General Election from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
Church of England transcript |
| 06-05-2017 |
UK General Election 2017: Archbishops Welby and Sentamu highlight the place of faith in British life |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 06-05-2017 |
Religion must be central in UK General Election to avoid extremism: Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 06-05-2017 |
Archbishops Welby and Sentamu voice election concerns |
BBC News |
| 06-05-2017 |
Church of England urges voters to ‘set aside apathy’ in general election |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 06-05-2017 |
Don't ‘exploit’ the faith of political opponents, say Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 06-05-2017 |
Archbishops Welby and Sentamu raise UK election concerns in letter |
ITV News text and images |
| 05-05-2017 |
St Jude's Cathedral in Canadian Arctic pays off its debt after years of fundraising |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) text and image/ACNS |
| 05-05-2017 |
Prince Philip still disarming critics as he retires from public duties |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 05-05-2017 |
Archbishops of Canterbury and York stand ready to advise voters in lead-up to British General Election |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 05-05-2017 |
GAFCON bishop on his way to ‘revisionist’ UK |
Church Times text and image |
| 05-05-2017 |
Refugee children increase ‘not enough’ |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 05-05-2017 |
Christians to be protected in Jordan, Welby is told |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 05-05-2017 |
Affirm sanctity of life, Pope urges on Cairo visit |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 05-05-2017 |
Tennis courts may hide remains of martyred 9th Century East Anglian King Edmund |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times |
| 05-05-2017 |
Scottish church coffers are deemed healthy despite £4.7m ($A8.2m) hole |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 04-05-2017 |
‘Urgency’ to capture next generation spurs on plans for Anglican University in South Sudan |
ACNS text and images |
| 04-05-2017 |
In pictures: Installation of Adelaide’s new Archbishop Geoff Smith |
Adelaide Anglicans images |
| 04-05-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Gaza |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 04-05-2017 |
Justin Welby: Christians must unite with Jews to halt rise of antisemitism |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 04-05-2017 |
Trump’s religious liberty order slammed as ‘pretty much nothing’ |
David Gibson, Religion News Service (US) video, text and images |
| 04-05-2017 |
New bishop to ordain women despite traditionalist background |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 03-05-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury and Chief Rabbi visit Yad Vashem |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 03-05-2017 |
Justin Welby reflects on meeting Iraqi Christians in Jordan |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 03-05-2017 |
Archbishop Welby and Chief Rabbi Mirvis meet friends of murdered UK student Hannah Bladon in Jerusalem |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 02-05-2017 |
Australian and NZ women bishops speak out on gender justice |
Anglican Communion News Service text and image |
| 02-05-2017 |
Head of Anglican Church visits Christian refugees in Jordan |
Fox News (US)/Associated Press text and images |
| 02-05-2017 |
Church of England accused of being both ‘homophobic’ and too weak on Biblical marriage |
Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post (US) video, text and images |
| 02-05-2017 |
Part of church compound in Sudan illegally occupied |
World Watch Monitor (UK) |
| 01-05-2017 |
First African-American woman to lead US Episcopal diocese takes office |
Diocese of Indianapolis/Episcopal News Service (US) video, text and images |
| 01-05-2017 |
Gay vicar quits and attacks ‘institutional homophobia’ |
Caroline Davies, The Guardian (UK) |
| 29-04-2017 |
A Communiqué from the GAFCON Primates to Members and Supporters |
Global Anglican Future Conference transcript |
| 28-04-2017 |
UK Department of Education backs funding of curacy training as an apprenticeship |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 28-04-2017 |
American wins Templeton Prize for theism in academic philosophy |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 28-04-2017 |
US bishops pledge to act on guns |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 28-04-2017 |
Children go hungry in school holiday period, say British MPs |
Amanda Lennon, Church Times |
| 28-04-2017 |
Death of cathedrals: reports ‘have been exaggerated’ |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 28-04-2017 |
UK Evangelical Christian party leader puts gay sex row to one side in election campaign |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 28-04-2017 |
Artist’s mappa mundi ‘selfie’ stirs up Hereford |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times text and images |
| 28-04-2017 |
Bishop Geoff Smith installed as Archbishop of Adelaide |
Adelaide Anglicans text and image |
| 28-04-2017 |
Marriage booklets distributed to Sydney churches |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 28-04-2017 |
GAFCON considers a missionary bishop for UK |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 27-04-2017 |
Dean of Salisbury June Osborne to be Bishop of Llandaff |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 26-04-2017 |
Mothers' Union warns against a ‘weakening resolve’ in fight for women's empowerment |
Mothers’ Union/ACNS |
| 25-04-2017 |
Worcester Cathedral blessing for asparagus crop criticised as ‘absurd’ by Anglicans |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) text and images |
| 24-04-2017 |
Iraqi refugee becomes Anglican priest |
Jevon Anonby and Anglican Journal (Canada) staff, text and image |
| 24-04-2017 |
Meet the Brisbane Anglican priest who created Anzac Day as we know it |
Tony Moore, Brisbane Times text and images |
| 24-04-2017 |
GAFCON response to Daily Mail report on a flying bishop for Britain |
Anglican Ink (US) |
| 24-04-2017 |
Women's mentoring focus of Thailand gathering |
World Council of Churches/ACNS |
| 24-04-2017 |
New film shines light on work of Anglican Communion Office |
ACNS video and text |
| 23-04-2017 |
African and Asian church leaders threaten to ‘plant’ a bishop in Britain to defy Welby on gay Christians |
Jonathan Petre, The Mail On Sunday (UK) |
| 22-04-2017 |
Churches in Melbourne’s ‘bible belt’ refuse to support Muslims |
Chris Johnston, The Age |
| 21-04-2017 |
Task group, including Australia’s Primate Archbishop Freier, developing deeper links and wider understanding |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 21-04-2017 |
Make UK General Election about the poor, voters urged |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times (UK) |
| 21-04-2017 |
Political concerns creep into Easter messages |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 21-04-2017 |
We need Russian co-operation in Syria, says Bishop of Coventry |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 21-04-2017 |
Anglican university to open in South Sudan |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 21-04-2017 |
US bishops defend immigration in court action opposing Trump order |
The Living Church (US) |
| 21-04-2017 |
Scottish Census finds ‘shoots of growth’ amid decline |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times |
| 21-04-2017 |
Former Virginia Tech chaplain looks to massacre’s aftermath for lessons in healing |
David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 21-04-2017 |
Russian LGBT activists call for support |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 21-04-2017 |
Priest visits survivors of sea crossing |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 21-04-2017 |
Policeman shot dead in apparent Islamic State terror attack in Paris |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 20-04-2017 |
Indonesian prosecutors demand Christian Governor Ahok be jailed if he offends again |
Samantha Hawley, ABC News |
| 20-04-2017 |
Former editor of Roman Catholic international weekly ‘The Tablet’ to be UK Development Officer for the Anglican Centre in Rome |
ACNS |
| 20-04-2017 |
Where despair prevails, South Sudan churches issue Easter hope message |
World Council of Churches/ACNS |
| 20-04-2017 |
US bishops arrange Chicago conference to help curtail gun violence |
ACNS |
| 19-04-2017 |
‘Absolute disgrace’: UK Lib-Dem leader Tim Farron under fire for refusing to answer when asked if being gay is a sin |
Helena Horton, The Telegraph (UK) video, text and images |
| 19-04-2017 |
Christchurch Cathedral survey ‘misleading’, says restoration campaigner |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ) |
| 19-04-2017 |
Prayer vigil at US cathedral ahead of executions |
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Little Rock, Arkansas/ACNS |
| 19-04-2017 |
CMS missionaries complete 28-year project to publish whole Bible in Kurdish Sorani language |
ACNS |
| 18-04-2017 |
Christianity needs to be respected: Abbott |
Sky News Australia video and text |
| 18-04-2017 |
Kirk in landmark apology over ‘long history’ of gay discrimination |
Brian Donnelly, The Herald (Scotland) |
| 18-04-2017 |
Madagascar Bishop visits parishes affected by cyclone |
ACNS |
| 18-04-2017 |
Easter Message from Archbishop Ian Ernest, Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean |
ACNS |
| 17-04-2017 |
Muhammad killed many, Jesus none: Pastor |
Mark Durie and Andrew Bolt, ‘The Bolt Report’, Sky News Australia video |
| 17-04-2017 |
British PM Theresa May gives Easter address as Pope condemns global violence |
Marc Walker, The Guardian (UK) and agencies |
| 16-04-2017 |
Australians celebrate Easter Sunday |
Rebekah Ison, news.com.au/Australian Associated Press |
| 16-04-2017 |
Churches demand Manus Island asylum seekers be evacuated |
The Guardian Australia and Australian Associated Press text and images |
| 16-04-2017 |
Bishop Kay Goldsworthy’s Easter Sermon 2017 – Don't be afraid |
Diocese of Gippsland transcript |
| 16-04-2017 |
Remains of five ‘lost’ Archbishops of Canterbury found |
BBC News text and images |
| 16-04-2017 |
Secret remains of five Archbishops discovered by builders underneath medieval London church |
Rachael Revesz, The Independent (UK) text and images |
| 16-04-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter 2017 Sermon |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 16-04-2017 |
Trump attends Easter service at Palm Beach Episcopal Church, Florida |
CBS News Miami/Sun Sentinel (US) video and text |
| 14-04-2017 |
War, terrorism, and the Christian exodus from the Middle East |
Robin Wright, The New Yorker |
| 14-04-2017 |
Easter: The ultimate ‘big bang’ |
Tim Harris, Adelaide Anglicans |
| 13-04-2017 |
Church leader says Good Friday AFL match is forcing religious fans to choose between footy and faith |
Philip Huggins with Danny Tran, ‘The World Today’, ABC Radio audio and text |
| 13-04-2017 |
Rescuing Australia: Archbishop of Sydney’s 2017 Easter Message |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans video, audio and transcript |
| 13-04-2017 |
Priest on the Victorian-NSW border retires |
Robert Muir, Shepparton News |
| 13-04-2017 |
Tasmanian Bishop Richard Condie’s Easter Message |
Anglican Media Tasmania media release |
| 13-04-2017 |
Copts count their dead after another murderous attack |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 13-04-2017 |
Airstrikes and sanctions talk leave bishops largely silent |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 13-04-2017 |
Why women clergy lead so few large churches |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 13-04-2017 |
Dean of Liverpool invited to take over in Sheffield |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 13-04-2017 |
Queen Elizabeth distributes Royal Maundy money at Leicester Cathedral |
Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 13-04-2017 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Ecumenical Easter Letter |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 13-04-2017 |
Archbishops of Canterbury and York set up group to probe cathedrals |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 13-04-2017 |
Easter Message from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem |
ACNS |
| 13-04-2017 |
Easter Message from Primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia |
ACNS |
| 13-04-2017 |
Easter Message from the Moderator of the Church of South India |
ACNS |
| 13-04-2017 |
Easter Message from the Anglican and Roman Catholic Primates of Ireland |
ACNS |
| 13-04-2017 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Holy Week Lecture III: ‘Building Resilience’ |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 13-04-2017 |
Welsh churches act on modern slavery |
Church Times (UK) |
| 13-04-2017 |
No plans for more Church grammar schools, says Church of England's chief education officer |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 13-04-2017 |
Abandoned Anglican Church in St Petersburg to become concert venue |
Russia Beyond The Headlines website |
| 12-04-2017 |
Crucified migrants sculpture in Bendigo highlights the plight of refugees |
Anglican Communion News Service text and image |
| 12-04-2017 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Holy Week Lecture II: ‘Have we lost our national nerve?’ |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 12-04-2017 |
Inside the exiled South Sudanese diocese of Kajo-Keji |
ACNS/ Voice of Hope newsletter (South Sudan) text and images |
| 12-04-2017 |
You can't be Christian if you don't believe in the resurrection, says former Queen's Chaplain |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 12-04-2017 |
Archbishop of York’s flotilla a prelude to reclassification of England’s largest parish church |
ACNS |
| 11-04-2017 |
Anglicans join global wave of solidarity after Palm Sunday Coptic bombings |
ACNS |
| 11-04-2017 |
Please pray for us and for Egypt: Archbishop Mouneer |
Mouneer Anis, ACNS |
| 11-04-2017 |
Seven years and some 1400 resolutions later: Adelaide’s Registrar heads West |
Keith Stephens, Adelaide Anglicans text and images |
| 11-04-2017 |
Georgia lynching victims remembered as racial reconciliation efforts expand |
David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service (US) text and image |
| 11-04-2017 |
100 years after Vimy, a chaplain’s witness to war still resonates |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) text and images |
| 11-04-2017 |
Burundian Anglicans march against gender-based violence |
ACNS |
| 11-04-2017 |
Sydney’s Archbishop Davies welcomes NSW report on Special Religious Education and Special Education in Ethics |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 11-04-2017 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Holy Week Lecture I: ‘Are we together for more than we can get out of it?’ |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 11-04-2017 |
Egypt church attacks: Copts mourn victims of Palm Sunday bombings; slam ‘security failures’ |
ABC News/Reuters videos, text and images |
| 10-04-2017 |
Archbishops of Canterbury and York launch review of English cathedrals’ governance |
ACNS |
| 10-04-2017 |
Endangered Anglican cathedrals prompt Church of England review |
Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service (US) |
| 10-04-2017 |
Decision edges closer on future of Christchurch Cathedral |
ACNS |
| 10-04-2017 |
Christ Church Cathedral restoration shortfall is $NZ56m, Anglican leaders say |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ) |
| 10-04-2017 |
Canada’s Primate asks Anglicans to pray for victims of attacks in Egypt, Syria |
Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 10-04-2017 |
Diocesan Administrator’s statement on Multi-Faith Sacred Space at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital |
Tim Harris, Adelaide Anglicans |
| 10-04-2017 |
Palm Sunday massacre: 44 dead as Daesh targets Coptic Pope |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 10-04-2017 |
Who are Egypt's Coptic Christians and why are they persecuted? |
Steven Viney, ABC News text and images |
| 09-04-2017 |
Deadly blasts hit Coptic churches in Tanta, Alexandria |
Al Jazeera video, text and images |
| 09-04-2017 |
Urgently needed repairs to Surfers Paradise Anglican Church forces homeless back to the streets |
Laura Nelson, Gold Coast Sun (Qld) |
| 09-04-2017 |
Anglican Bishop of Bendigo Andrew Curnow AM announces plans to retire |
Adam Holmes, Bendigo Advertiser |
| 08-04-2017 |
Hobart churches experience shortage of palm branches for Palm Sunday services |
Shaun McManus, The Mercury (Tas) |
| 08-04-2017 |
NZ Anglicans commission new poll on Christ Church Cathedral |
Charlie Gates, The Press (Christchurch)/stuff.co.nz (NZ) |
| 07-04-2017 |
Bishop Roger Herft's response to child abuse allegations in Newcastle ‘weak and ineffectual’ |
Joanne McCarthy, Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 07-04-2017 |
Air strikes on Syria ‘pour gasoline on to a fire’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 07-04-2017 |
WCC urges end to ‘culture of impunity’ in Syria |
ACNS |
| 07-04-2017 |
Gay clergyman passed over seven times for promotion to bishop |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 07-04-2017 |
Dean of Liverpool named as the next Bishop of Sheffield |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 07-04-2017 |
Bathurst priest’s daughter’s long road to ordination |
Nadine Morton, Western Advocate (NSW) text and images |
| 07-04-2017 |
Gibraltar Brexit wrangle opens old wounds |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 07-04-2017 |
BBC’s Religion and Ethics department in Manchester to fold |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 07-04-2017 |
Complainants hear US bishop defend his bid to sell church |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 07-04-2017 |
Euthanasia challenged |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 07-04-2017 |
UK aid boosts South Sudanese girls |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times/Medical Aid Films video, text and image |
| 07-04-2017 |
Church of England bishop backs report condemning governments’ short-sightedness over National Health Service |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 07-04-2017 |
International gathering of bishops in northern England |
ACNS |
| 07-04-2017 |
UK Heritage Lottery Fund removes ring-fence around church grants |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 06-04-2017 |
Child abuse royal commission: Counsel's submission criticises Newcastle Anglican bishops |
Giselle Wakatama, ABC News |
| 06-04-2017 |
Royal Commission told of decades of mistreatment of child sex victims |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald text and images |
| 06-04-2017 |
Newcastle Anglican Diocese struggling with fallout from child sex history |
The Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 06-04-2017 |
Top Anglican accused of sex abuse failures |
Rebekah Ison and Jamie McKinnell, Australian Associated Press/news.com.au |
| 06-04-2017 |
Submissions for public hearing into Anglican Diocese of Newcastle published |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 06-04-2017 |
WCC General Secretary’s statement on attack in the Idlib Governance of Syria |
Olav Fykse Tveit, World Council of Churches media release |
| 06-04-2017 |
Anglican Church of Canada appoints reconciliation animator |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 05-04-2017 |
Do the media hate the Church? |
Barney Zwartz and Andrew West, ‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio and text |
| 05-04-2017 |
Candle-lit Abbey tribute to those killed in Westminster terror attack |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times text and images |
| 05-04-2017 |
‘Vitality and growth across the Communion’: Anglican Consultative Council Chair looks back and looks ahead |
Paul Kwong, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 04-04-2017 |
Easter is restored after row over National Trust egg hunt |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 04-04-2017 |
British PM Theresa May condemns National Trust for axing ‘Easter’ from egg hunt |
Jessica Elgot and Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 04-04-2017 |
Church allows worshippers to get closer to God, by text-messaging a prayer |
Patrick Sawer, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 04-04-2017 |
Trump’s immigration policies force reduction of Episcopal Church’s refugee resettlement network |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 04-04-2017 |
Fight Indigenous suicide by ‘fixation on wellness’ |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 04-04-2017 |
Anglican Church in Peru calls for aid |
ACNS |
| 04-04-2017 |
Bishop Tim Thornton announced as new Bishop at Lambeth |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 04-04-2017 |
Lambeth Palace announces new Bishop at Lambeth |
ACNS |
| 04-04-2017 |
GAFCON Chairman's April 2017 Pastoral Letter |
Nicholas Okoh, Global Anglican Future Conference transcript |
| 03-04-2017 |
Bendigo’s Bishop Andrew Curnow announces resignation |
Diocese of Bendigo transcript and image |
| 03-04-2017 |
Bathurst Anglican parish strong three years after fire gutted their historic church |
Nadine Morton, Western Advocate (NSW) |
| 03-04-2017 |
Church of England faces grave future, study concludes |
Alex Williams, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 03-04-2017 |
Church of Wales rejects complaints over Bishop of Llandaff selection |
ACNS |
| 03-04-2017 |
Welsh committee dismissed complaints against bishops and electoral college over Llandaff appointment |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 03-04-2017 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Easter message 2017 |
Episcopal News Service (US) video and transcript |
| 01-04-2017 |
‘They had nowhere to hide’: Abuse survivors praise Royal Commission for shaking institutions |
Melissa Davey, The Guardian Australia text and images |
| 31-03-2017 |
Fierce flames erupt from Melbourne church in suspected deliberate attack |
Nine News video, text and images |
| 31-03-2017 |
Fire destroys old Anglican church in Hastings |
Cameron McCullough, The Mornington Peninsula News |
| 31-03-2017 |
Child sexual abuse royal commission told physical violence ‘the norm’ in many institutions |
Nicole Chettle, ABC News |
| 31-03-2017 |
Survivors demand action as sex abuse royal commission hearings conclude |
Rachel Browne, The Sydney Morning Herald video, text and image |
| 31-03-2017 |
Gay marriage campaigners bullying Australians who are against it, Anglican Archbishop says |
Chloe Hart, ABC News |
| 31-03-2017 |
Anglican Archbishop Glenn Davies slams same-sex marriage activists |
Simone Fox Koob, The Australian |
| 31-03-2017 |
Bishop Bill Ray of North Queensland writes on Cyclone Debbie and its aftermath |
Diocese of North Queensland transcript |
| 31-03-2017 |
Anglican appeal for cyclone victims in Australia |
ACNS |
| 31-03-2017 |
Lenten greetings from Bishop Stuart Robinson |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community |
| 31-03-2017 |
Westminster terror act stirs spirit of unity |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 31-03-2017 |
Civilians in Mosul ‘between a rock and a hard place’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 31-03-2017 |
Pope Francis reminds EU of its founding vision |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 31-03-2017 |
Archbishops refer concerns over Bishop of Sheffield nomination process to Independent Reviewer |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 31-03-2017 |
Llandaff electors issue protest |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 31-03-2017 |
Disciplinary hearing for Los Angeles Bishop Bruno concludes without decision |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 31-03-2017 |
Pope’s remarks on intercommunion ‘ground-breaking’ |
Church Times text and images |
| 31-03-2017 |
Calling on cricketers for C of E team |
Paul Handley, Church Times |
| 30-03-2017 |
Tackling Debbie’s damage |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 30-03-2017 |
Los Angeles bishop tells disciplinary hearing about attempt to sell church |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS text and images |
| 30-03-2017 |
Sex abuse royal commission: Apologies don't go far enough to undo damage, child advocates say |
Nicole Chettle, ABC News |
| 30-03-2017 |
Childhood abuse a ‘torturous life sentence’, royal commission hears |
Rachel Browne, The Sydney Morning Herald video, text and images |
| 30-03-2017 |
Family violence: In the year since Victoria's royal commission, how much has changed? |
Stephanie Anderson, ABC News |
| 30-03-2017 |
Former church for sale: Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Waubra, Victoria |
Charlotte Durut, The Weekly Times |
| 29-03-2017 |
First day of hearing into LA bishop brings testimony about his behaviour |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS text and images |
| 29-03-2017 |
Sex abuse royal commission: Adults who molest children ‘often popular members of community’ |
Nicole Chettle, ABC News |
| 29-03-2017 |
Royal Commission hears how sex predators groom and abuse |
Rachel Browne, The Sydney Morning Herald video, text and images |
| 29-03-2017 |
We're going nowhere, says Bishop in Europe as Britain begins EU exit |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 29-03-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s unity plea on eve of Spring Harvest festival |
Lambeth Palace video and text |
| 29-03-2017 |
Jerusalem Anglican college hosts theologians from around the globe via the Internet |
ACNS |
| 29-03-2017 |
Episcopal leader speaks about Utah’s interfaith efforts, church divisions, dwindling membership, social causes |
Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune (US) |
| 28-03-2017 |
Coalition of Episcopal bishops issue statement in response to Trump’s executive order on climate change |
ENS transcript |
| 28-03-2017 |
Anglican church sale postponed after Native Title claim |
Brendan Wrigley, Bendigo Advertiser |
| 28-03-2017 |
Anglican women pledge to ‘change the world’ after UN conference on economic empowerment |
ACNS |
| 28-03-2017 |
Statement to the Anglican Consultative Council from the Anglican Communion delegation to the 61st Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, March 2017 |
International Anglican Women’s Network transcript |
| 28-03-2017 |
Church of South India recommits to gender equity in society |
CSI/ACNS text and images |
| 28-03-2017 |
Church of England to create bishop for minority ethnic community |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 28-03-2017 |
Church in Wales investigates official complaints of homophobia against gay cleric |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 27-03-2017 |
C of E creates new bishop to reach out to ethnic minorities because the Church is seen as too ‘quintessentially English’ |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 24-03-2017 |
Water: Common good or commodity? |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 24-03-2017 |
No easy fixes for preventing abuse, warns Dr Freier |
Muriel Porter, Church Times (UK) |
| 24-03-2017 |
Bishop Greg Thompson on being a sexual abuse survivor and the threats that made him resign |
Melissa Davey, The Guardian Australia text and images |
| 24-03-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury speaks in House of Lords about London attack |
Anglican Communion News Service transcript and image |
| 24-03-2017 |
Controversy over Bishop of Sheffield nomination: Joint statement by Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 24-03-2017 |
Theologian defends universities against charges they are seedbeds of ‘political correctness’ |
ACNS |
| 24-03-2017 |
Mixed tributes for Martin McGuinness |
Gregg Ryan, Church Times |
| 24-03-2017 |
MPs join row over election of Welsh bishop |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 24-03-2017 |
Archbishop Welby hosts Orthodox Church of Greece delegation at Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 24-03-2017 |
Anglican leader who defrocked, reconciled with gay priest dies |
Jackie Hong, Toronto Star (Canada) |
| 24-03-2017 |
Conference proclaims the good news for animals |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 23-03-2017 |
London attack: Archbishop of Canterbury responds in House of Lords |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 23-03-2017 |
Church leaders offer prayers after deadly attack in Westminster |
Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 23-03-2017 |
York and Canterbury joint letter to Church of England Independent Reviewer on See of Sheffield |
Bishopthorpe Palace (UK) transcript |
| 23-03-2017 |
International Anglican student gathering in the Philippines |
ACNS text and images |
| 22-03-2017 |
Bishops in Parliament respond to Westminster attack |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 22-03-2017 |
Royal Commission ends Anglican phase |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 22-03-2017 |
Anglicans reveal child abuse confessions |
Megan Neil, Australian Associated Press/news.com.au |
| 22-03-2017 |
Dioceses lack ‘robust’ child protections |
AAP/9news.com.au |
| 22-03-2017 |
Reconsider Jeffrey John, Welsh MPs tell bishops |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 22-03-2017 |
Archbishop Welby visit to Holy Land will span Middle Eastern faith and politics |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 22-03-2017 |
Anglican Communion Secretary-General briefs Bishops of Pakistan during three-day retreat in England |
ACNS text and images |
| 22-03-2017 |
Appeal for restoration of Malta’s landmark St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral |
ACNS |
| 21-03-2017 |
Child abusers stopped from going to church |
Megan Neil, AAP/Yahoo!7news |
| 21-03-2017 |
Statements from the Primate of All Ireland and the Archbishop of Dublin on the death of veteran Irish Republican, Martin McGuinness |
Anglican Communion News Service transcripts |
| 21-03-2017 |
Anglican Church in Canada challenges Senator's comments on residential schools |
ACNS |
| 21-03-2017 |
Road trip for Chaplaincy in UAE to mark 15th anniversary of Christ Church |
ACNS text, map and images |
| 20-03-2017 |
Sudan announced as a new Province within the Anglican Communion |
ACNS |
| 20-03-2017 |
Anglican Board of Mission – Australia makes twin-track Easter appeal |
Anglican Communion News Service text and image |
| 20-03-2017 |
Anglicare leaders support national redress scheme |
Samantha Donovan, ABC Radio ‘PM’ audio and text |
| 20-03-2017 |
Dean Jeffrey John replies to exclusion from Llandaff: ‘This is how discrimination works’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 20-03-2017 |
‘Critical need’ to train new ordained ministers in Canadian indigenous communities |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada)/ACNS |
| 17-03-2017 |
Anglican Church ‘deeply ashamed’ about 1000 complaints of child sex abuse, Royal Commission hears |
Clare Blumer and Michelle Brown, ABC News |
| 17-03-2017 |
Anglicans still in denial on child abuse |
9news.com.au/Australian Associated Press |
| 17-03-2017 |
Royal Commission reveals scale of child sexual abuse in Anglican Church |
Christopher Knaus, The Guardian Australia |
| 17-03-2017 |
Royal Commission Chair Justice Peter McClellan addresses Australian Lawyers Alliance NSW Annual State Conference |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse transcript |
| 17-03-2017 |
Australian Primate issues statement on Royal Commission |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 17-03-2017 |
Sheffield debacle leaves traditionalists in limbo |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 17-03-2017 |
Brexit Bill passes after Lords’ amendments fail |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times text and images |
| 17-03-2017 |
European workplace ruling is ‘denial of religious freedom’ |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 17-03-2017 |
Syrians at ‘rock bottom’ as war reaches sixth year |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 17-03-2017 |
Agencies launch joint emergency appeal for East Africa |
Church Times |
| 17-03-2017 |
With one accord, Evensong sung in St Peter’s Basilica |
Philippa Hitchen, Church Times |
| 17-03-2017 |
New Director for the Anglican Centre, Rome |
ACNS |
| 16-03-2017 |
Bishop Greg Thompson announces resignation as Bishop of Newcastle |
Diocese of Newcastle (NSW) media release |
| 16-03-2017 |
Statement from Newcastle Assistant Bishop Peter Stuart |
Diocese of Newcastle media release |
| 16-03-2017 |
Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson resigns after standing up for abuse survivors |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) text and images |
| 16-03-2017 |
Newcastle Anglican bishop Greg Thompson quits after working hard to deal with abuse issues |
Giselle Wakatama, ABC News video, text and images |
| 16-03-2017 |
Archbishop of Sydney pays tribute to Newcastle bishop |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 16-03-2017 |
Dr Glenn Davies’ statement on the resignation of Newcastle Bishop Greg Thompson |
Diocese of Sydney media release |
| 16-03-2017 |
Bishop Thompson of Newcastle in Australia announces resignation |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-03-2017 |
Women give of themselves to help find peace in South Sudan campaigner tells UN meeting |
ACNS |
| 16-03-2017 |
Church of England House of Bishops updates domestic-abuse guidance |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 16-03-2017 |
Church of Ireland’s Refugee Working Groups launch resource on supporting asylum seekers and refugees |
ACNS |
| 15-03-2017 |
Coopers Brewery outrage over links with Bible Society ‘over the top’, Liberal MPs say |
Matthew Doran, ABC News video |
| 15-03-2017 |
Coopers boycott over Bible Society video ‘absurd’ |
Frank Chung and Rohan Smith, news.com.au/Bible Society text and videos |
| 14-03-2017 |
Diocese of South Carolina votes to join GAFCON-aligned Anglican Church of North America |
Mary Ailes, Global Anglican Future Conference text and image |
| 14-03-2017 |
Geelong Grammar School appoints new Principal |
Geelong Grammar School media release and image |
| 14-03-2017 |
Geelong Grammar School appoints its first female principal |
Marika Dobbin Thomas, The Age text and images |
| 14-03-2017 |
Video: Coopers Brewery responds to controversy over Bible Society discussion between MPs on same-sex marriage |
Coopers Brewery video and media release |
| 14-03-2017 |
Anglican Evensong in St Peter's Basilica |
Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 14-03-2017 |
Anglicans' hopes high as UN conference on economic empowerment of women opens |
ACNS video, text and image |
| 13-03-2017 |
Bible Society responds to controversy over ‘Keeping it Light’ video |
Bible Society media release |
| 13-03-2017 |
Message in a bottle: Coopers under fire for Bible Society marriage equality video |
Elle Hunt, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-03-2017 |
First Anglican Evensong celebrated in St Peter's Basilica |
Philippa Hitchens, Vatican Radio audio, text and images |
| 13-03-2017 |
Ulster cathedral’s bells to ring out in solidarity with refugees |
ACNS |
| 10-03-2017 |
What is the role of faith in today's world? |
Stan Grant, ‘7.30’, ABC TV video, text and images |
| 10-03-2017 |
Uniting Church apologises to victims of sexual abuse, Jehovah's Witnesses defend treatment |
Nicole Chettle and Michelle Brown, ABC News |
| 10-03-2017 |
Starvation ‘imminent’ as conflicts stop deliveries in South Sudan |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 10-03-2017 |
Syrian children suffering ‘toxic stress’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 10-03-2017 |
Young migrants still hope to reach UK |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 10-03-2017 |
Economic fruits must pass to the poor, Church tells UK Chancellor of the Exchequer |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 10-03-2017 |
Bathurst’s St Barnabas' Anglican Church will not be rebuilt after fire |
Nadine Morton, Western Advocate (NSW) text and images |
| 10-03-2017 |
Anglicans in Canada pledging to make lifestyle changes to tackle climate change |
ACNS |
| 10-03-2017 |
Lambeth Design Group puts down foundations for Lambeth 2020 planning |
ACNS |
| 09-03-2017 |
Bishop Philip North pulls out of Sheffield appointment after personal attacks |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 09-03-2017 |
Statement from the Bishop of Burnley, the Rt Revd Philip North |
Church of England media release |
| 09-03-2017 |
Archbishop of York statement on Bishop Philip North |
Bishopthorpe Palace transcript |
| 09-03-2017 |
Bishop Philip North turns down Sheffield post over women priests row |
BBC News |
| 09-03-2017 |
Gloucester Bishop Rachel Treweek releases film to help women ex-offenders |
Anglican Communion News Service video and text |
| 09-03-2017 |
UK Bishop to the Forces leads prayer at Queen’s unveiling of Iraq and Afghanistan wars memorial in London |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 09-03-2017 |
Archbishop Mouneer Anis and the new area Bishop Samy Fawzy on pastoral visit to North Africa |
ACNS |
| 09-03-2017 |
Canadian Anglican parishes pledge to ‘give it up for the Earth’ this Lent |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 09-03-2017 |
Episcopalians differ on Church’s activism and mixing faith and politics |
David Paulsen and Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 09-03-2017 |
WCC gravely concerned over Israel’s travel ban |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 09-03-2017 |
A good drop for the Good Book |
Bible Society media release and videos |
| 08-03-2017 |
Bishops are divided on amendments to the Brexit Bill |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 08-03-2017 |
Mothers’ Union calls for women's voices to be heard in peace and reconciliation |
ACNS |
| 08-03-2017 |
The Bishop of Gloucester raises issue of gender equality at House of Lords |
ACNS |
| 08-03-2017 |
Bishop Nigel Stock announces retirement as Bishop at Lambeth |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 08-03-2017 |
WCC General Secretary joins UN dialogue on interreligious peace |
WCC media release |
| 07-03-2017 |
Lent campaign of prayer and action for climate justice |
ACNS |
| 07-03-2017 |
European Union: Archbishop of Canterbury's speech in Lords debate |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 07-03-2017 |
Looking back on Archbishop Welby’s visit to Anglicans in Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya |
Lambeth Palace video, text and images |
| 07-03-2017 |
Episcopal Presiding Bishop stresses importance of close ties with China |
ACNS |
| 07-03-2017 |
US Presiding Bishop visits the Diocese of Taiwan |
Lynette Wilson, ENS videos, text and images |
| 06-03-2017 |
Episcopal, Chinese church relationship strengthened through visit |
Lynette Wilson, ENS text and images |
| 06-03-2017 |
Gambia bishop gives thanks for peace after election tension |
ACNS |
| 06-03-2017 |
Tiny house ‘village’ for homeless developing with help of US church |
David Paulsen, ENS text and images |
| 05-03-2017 |
Indigenous worker for BCA |
Nick Gilbert, Sydney Anglicans |
| 03-03-2017 |
Lambeth Palace letter suggests ‘indistinguishable’ blessing after same-sex marriage |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 03-03-2017 |
Lenten ashes distributed in vegetable market in the Caribbean |
ACNS |
| 03-03-2017 |
Australia urged to 'do better' in sending foreign aid to 'catastrophic' Middle East, North Africa |
Sophie McNeill, ABC News |
| 03-03-2017 |
Pope Francis plans joint visit with Justin Welby to South Sudan |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 03-03-2017 |
Britain’s Home Office hosts workshop on resettling Syrian refugees |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 03-03-2017 |
Women bishops rally round Philip North in Sheffield row |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 03-03-2017 |
Judge critical of costs incurred in UK church-school case |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 02-03-2017 |
Welcome refugees, Churches say in a public challenge to Trump |
Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times |
| 02-03-2017 |
MP: Christians shouldn’t feel embarrassed about display of faith |
Emma Harrison, BBC News |
| 02-03-2017 |
Urgent international assistance sought by South Sudan Council of Churches |
World Council of Churches text and image |
| 02-03-2017 |
Anglican Board of Mission makes emergency appeal for East Africa |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 02-03-2017 |
Religious fanatics charged over damage to Brisbane war memorial |
Cameron Atfield, Brisbane Times text and images |
| 02-03-2017 |
Britain’s National Health Service should ‘do God’ new guidance suggests, with doctors urged to ask the dying about their religious views |
Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 02-03-2017 |
Call Chancellor Merkel’s bluff, says Archbishop of York |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 02-03-2017 |
Anglican and Lutheran leaders in the United States and Canada highlight refugees in Lent |
ACNS text and image |
| 02-03-2017 |
Episcopal Church takes lead in US Supreme Court brief on transgender-bathroom policy |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 02-03-2017 |
US Presiding Bishop’s visit strengthens link between Episcopal, Hong Kong Anglican churches |
Lynette Wilson, ENS video, text and images |
| 02-03-2017 |
Episcopal Migration Ministries satellite office in Florida to close as US Cuba policy changes |
ACNS |
| 01-03-2017 |
Micah program offering a permanent solution to homelessness |
Tierney Bonini, ABC TV 'Lateline' video and transcript |
| 01-03-2017 |
Islam will be largest religion in the world by 2070, says report |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 01-03-2017 |
Episcopal, Lutheran leaders in US and Canada issue Ash Wednesday message on refugees |
ENS media release |
| 01-03-2017 |
Church backs sex education, as C of E bishop says sexualisation of children means they can no longer be ‘shielded’ |
Camilla Turner, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 01-03-2017 |
US-based, Philippines Episcopal churches enter concordat agreement |
Lynette Wilson, ENS text and images |
| 28-02-2017 |
WA Anglican church welcomes Muslim community, offers land for mosque |
Briana Shepherd, ABC News text and images |
| 28-02-2017 |
Soft-toned Trump reaches out to religious and other minorities |
Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service (US) |
| 28-02-2017 |
English diocese assisting with urgent relief funding in Kenya |
ACNS |
| 28-02-2017 |
Bishop’s views mean he should decline job: A response to the Archbishop of York on Bishop Philip North’s nomination for Sheffield |
Martyn Percy, Yorkshire Post (UK) |
| 28-02-2017 |
Anglican Interfaith Network launches book ‘Out of the Depths – Hope in Times of Suffering’ |
ACNS |
| 28-02-2017 |
In religious freedom debate, two American values clash |
Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio (US) |
| 27-02-2017 |
Church official who helped uncover child sexual abuse resigns from Newcastle diocese |
Diocese of Newcastle (NSW) media release |
| 27-02-2017 |
Anglican Church in Burundi takes action to help families threatened by famine |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 27-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Provinces of Burundi, Congo, Rwanda and Kenya |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 27-02-2017 |
Canadian Primate’s fund pledges emergency relief funding for South Sudan and Kenya |
ACNS |
| 27-02-2017 |
South African Anglican bishops warn of ‘false sense of calm’ on university campuses |
ACNS |
| 27-02-2017 |
Terminally ill Bishop issues plea to accept gay marriage as he says Church of England has got it wrong |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 27-02-2017 |
Pope receives gifts from Rome’s Anglican community on visit |
Devin Sean Watkins, Vatican Radio text and image |
| 26-02-2017 |
Video: Pope Francis’ historic visit to All Saints’ Anglican church in Rome for its 200th anniversary |
Vatican Television Centre/YouTube video |
| 26-02-2017 |
Former Zimbabwean Test cricketer Henry Olonga appeals for water for developing world |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 26-02-2017 |
The child abuse scandal of the British children sent abroad |
Tom Symonds, BBC News text and images |
| 25-02-2017 |
Archbishop of York: You have my word – female clergy will not be undermined by new Bishop of Sheffield |
John Sentamu, Yorkshire Post (UK) |
| 24-02-2017 |
Anglican Communion Office appoints its first Chief Operating Officer |
ACNS |
| 24-02-2017 |
Global gathering of Bishops to be held in northern England |
ACNS |
| 24-02-2017 |
C of E Commissioners clarify business rates proposal |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 24-02-2017 |
Council thwarts Guildford Cathedral’s endowment plan |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 24-02-2017 |
Aid called for as thousands face famine in South Sudan |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 24-02-2017 |
Church of England bishops press ahead after General Synod defeat on sexuality report |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 24-02-2017 |
Brexiteers’ decision was ‘quixotic’, bishop says |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 24-02-2017 |
Opponent of female priests urged to decline Bishop of Sheffield post |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 24-02-2017 |
Bristol aims to be world’s first ‘transparent’ slave-free city |
Church Times |
| 24-02-2017 |
Church bells to ring out against racism |
Gregg Ryan, Church Times |
| 24-02-2017 |
No disciplinary proceedings to follow rapist ordinand Timothy Storey case |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 23-02-2017 |
Coptic Christians flee an unwelcoming Egypt, seek refuge in Australia |
Nadyat El Gawley, ‘Earshot’, ABC Radio National text and images |
| 23-02-2017 |
Jerusalem archbishop rededicates Israeli church closed for nearly 80 years |
Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 23-02-2017 |
Building a generation of peace and hope in Baghdad |
John Kafwanka and Faiz Jerjees, ACNS |
| 23-02-2017 |
Modern theological education mustn't lose sight of final goal, warns Canada’s Primate |
ACNS |
| 22-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury in Kenya on last leg of African whistlestop tour |
Anglican Communion News Service video, text and images |
| 22-02-2017 |
Anglican women to make case for economic empowerment at UN Commission |
ACNS |
| 22-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Cape Town calls on South African government to scrap plans for nuclear energy |
ACNS |
| 21-02-2017 |
Anglican Alliance hosts conference call to South Sudan amid famine warning |
ACNS |
| 21-02-2017 |
Heterosexual couple lose civil partnership challenge |
BBC news video, text and images |
| 20-02-2017 |
‘Extraordinary legacy and hero to many’; school knew of abuse allegation when it sent tribute letter |
Tammy Mills, The Age |
| 20-02-2017 |
Cardinal Kasper on Anglican, Catholic parishes ‘twinning’ for papal visit |
Philippa Hitchen, Vatican Radio audio and text |
| 20-02-2017 |
Pope to visit Anglican church in Rome |
Independent Catholic News (UK) |
| 20-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury prays with new Primate of Burundi at start of African tour |
ACNS |
| 20-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Rwanda |
Jean d’Amour Mbonyinshuti, The New Times (Rwanda) text and images |
| 20-02-2017 |
Campaigners hail UK church school decision to let pupils choose gender identity |
Alexandra Topping, The Guardian Australia |
| 20-02-2017 |
Churches across London planting trees to make neighbourhoods more ‘bee friendly’ |
ACNS |
| 19-02-2017 |
Anglican Bishop of Bunbury Allan Ewing says the extent of child sexual abuse is shameful |
Kate Campbell, PerthNow |
| 19-02-2017 |
Sydney bishop challenges ordinands |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans text and images |
| 19-02-2017 |
NZ Government, church at odds over offer to restore Christ Church Cathedral |
Nick Truebridge, stuff.co.nz video, text and images |
| 19-02-2017 |
Lambeth Palace garden opens to visitors for 2017 |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 17-02-2017 |
Adelaide Anglicans respond to Royal Commission report |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 17-02-2017 |
Global gathering of Mothers’ Union leaders in March |
Beverley Jullien, ACNS |
| 17-02-2017 |
Church of England gay marriage vote thrown into chaos after members ‘press wrong button’ |
news.com.au staff writers and Reuters |
| 17-02-2017 |
Hackles rise during pre-Synod manoeuvring |
Church Times (UK) |
| 17-02-2017 |
C of E bishops seek to repair divisions over same-sex relationships |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 17-02-2017 |
Archbishop of York calls for ‘radical’ steps by Church |
Yorkshire Post (UK) |
| 17-02-2017 |
MND-sufferer’s blinking eyes convict historical abuse cleric |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 17-02-2017 |
Church hails ruling on Trump’s ban |
Ed Thornton, Church Times |
| 17-02-2017 |
General Synod united in call for action against gambling machines |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 17-02-2017 |
Welby: Brexit Britain needs the Church |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 17-02-2017 |
Fears in Eastern Europe over Russian ‘toxic cocktail’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 16-02-2017 |
GAFCON UK responds to C of E General Synod vote, and offers a new vision for faithful Anglicanism |
Global Anglican Future Conference (UK) media release |
| 16-02-2017 |
Ghana reconciliation pilgrimage a ‘homecoming’, US Presiding Bishop says |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 16-02-2017 |
Peter Hollingworth ‘misled inquiry over child-sex abuse knowledge’ |
Rhian Deutrom, The Australian |
| 16-02-2017 |
Statement by the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide concerning the Royal Commission findings in Case Study 36 |
Tim Harris, Diocese of Adelaide media release |
| 16-02-2017 |
Letter from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York following General Synod vote on sexuality |
Church of England transcript |
| 16-02-2017 |
Church of England gay marriage vote thrown into chaos after members ‘get confused and press wrong button’ |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 16-02-2017 |
No easy solution to same-sex marriage issue, Anglican Communion Secretary General tells C of E Synod |
ACNS |
| 16-02-2017 |
Church of England's rejection of gay marriage report welcomed |
BBC News text and images |
| 16-02-2017 |
Church of England rejects report barring gay marriage |
Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!7 News |
| 16-02-2017 |
C of E in turmoil as synod rejects report on same-sex relationships |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 16-02-2017 |
General Synod votes to reject controversial same-sex marriage report |
Caroline Mortimer, The Independent (UK) text and images |
| 16-02-2017 |
South Sudan bishop accuses army of mass rape and torture |
ACNS |
| 15-02-2017 |
Royal Commission releases its report into Brisbane Grammar and St Paul's School, Bald Hills |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 15-02-2017 |
Brisbane schools ‘failed to act’ on Kevin Lynch sexual abuse allegations |
Nick Wiggins and Matt Eaton, ABC News |
| 15-02-2017 |
Disbelieving Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul’s School principals failed students, says commission report |
Lauren Martyn-Jones, The Courier-Mail (Qld) |
| 15-02-2017 |
Ex-Brisbane Grammar School head ignored abuse claim: report |
Jorge Branco, Brisbane Times |
| 15-02-2017 |
Synod rebuff for Bishops’ report on sexuality |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 15-02-2017 |
Church of England's report on marriage and sexuality suffers setback at Synod |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 15-02-2017 |
Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury following General Synod vote on marriage and same-sex relationships |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 15-02-2017 |
Church takes step towards gay marriage after vote rejects controversial report |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) video, text and images |
| 15-02-2017 |
C of E clergy issue shock rebuke to bishops’ view on sexuality |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 14-02-2017 |
Royal Commission’s report into Geelong Grammar School released |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 14-02-2017 |
Tasmanian Bishop Richard Condie’s Pastoral Letter in response to the Royal Commission CEBS report |
Richard Condie, Diocese of Tasmania |
| 14-02-2017 |
Senior Church figure to face disciplinary hearing following child sex abuse royal commission findings |
Georgie Burgess, ABC News |
| 14-02-2017 |
Donald Trump is part of a ‘fascist tradition of politics’, says Archbishop of Canterbury |
Patrick Foster, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 14-02-2017 |
Geelong Grammar School: Royal Commission policies and reports webpage |
Geelong Grammar School website |
| 14-02-2017 |
Geelong Grammar vows to learn from past mishandling of child sexual abuse claims |
ABC News |
| 14-02-2017 |
Geelong Grammar: Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission report set to be tabled in Parliament |
Nicholas Payne, Geelong Advertiser |
| 14-02-2017 |
Geelong Grammar head did not act: Inquiry |
Megan Neil, Australian Associated Press/news.com.au |
| 14-02-2017 |
Abuse survivors push for police inquiry into Anglican Bishop Philip Newell |
Richard Baines, ABC News Tasmania |
| 14-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury calls on churches to be part of ‘reimagining’ a new Britain |
ACNS |
| 14-02-2017 |
Jerusalem and Middle East Primate criticises US immigration restrictions |
ACNS |
| 14-02-2017 |
Diocese of Jamaica and The Cayman Islands launches boys' home rebuilding fund after fire |
ACNS |
| 13-02-2017 |
Report released into Church of England Boys’ Society and the Anglican Dioceses of Tasmania, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 13-02-2017 |
Anglican Church responds to Royal Commission findings |
Anglican Media Tasmania |
| 13-02-2017 |
Damning verdict on response to child abuse in Australia |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 13-02-2017 |
A ‘network of sexual perpetrators’ operated in Anglican church youth group, royal commission finds |
Rachel Browne, The Sydney Morning Herald video, text and images |
| 13-02-2017 |
Royal Commission finds Peter Hollingworth made ‘serious error of judgement’ by letting child abuser stay |
Sarah Hawke, ABC News |
| 13-02-2017 |
Report slams the actions of SA Anglican Church leaders Ian George and Brian Smith over child abuser Robert Brandenburg |
Nigel Hunt, The Advertiser (Adelaide) |
| 13-02-2017 |
Anglican bishop acts over report into sexual abuse claims |
Duncan Abey, The Mercury (Hobart) text and images |
| 13-02-2017 |
NZ religious leaders speak out over Indian students' deportation |
stuff.co.nz |
| 13-02-2017 |
‘I don't blame them wanting a lie-in on Sundays,’ says Church of England adviser |
BBC World Service ‘World Update’ audio, text and image |
| 13-02-2017 |
Stephen Hawking-style technology used so chorister can testify against his abuser |
Stephen Walter, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 13-02-2017 |
Synod in Cyprus reflects on intentional discipleship |
ACNS |
| 13-02-2017 |
Former BBC World Service journalist to be new editor of Anglican Communion News Service |
ACNS |
| 13-02-2017 |
Church of England General Synod: Archbishop of Canterbury's Presidential Address |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 13-02-2017 |
Serving bishop joins criticism against C of E stance on gay marriage |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-02-2017 |
Retired bishops take their successors to task over sexuality report |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 12-02-2017 |
Anglican Church tipped to reveal WA abuse allegations |
Peter Law and Kate Campbell, PerthNow |
| 12-02-2017 |
Church of England ministers could work beyond the age of 70 to ease recruitment crisis |
Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 12-02-2017 |
C of E facing new battle over attitude to LGBT members ahead of General Synod |
Caroline Mortimer, The Independent (UK) |
| 12-02-2017 |
Queen's former church launches appeal for repairs |
Aaron James, Premier Media (UK) video and text |
| 11-02-2017 |
WA paedophile priest Raymond Cheek: Anglican Church 'surprised' by two-year jail sentence |
Laura Gartry, ABC News text and images |
| 11-02-2017 |
WA priest jailed for two years over abuse of five boys across 30-year-period |
Shannon Hampton, The West Australian |
| 11-02-2017 |
Bishop of Bunbury’s response to prison sentence for deposed priest convicted of child abuse |
Allan Ewing, Diocese of Bunbury |
| 11-02-2017 |
Moore College’s new centre opens |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans text and images |
| 11-02-2017 |
Anglicans braced for new clashes over gay marriage in church |
Patrick Sawer and Olivia Rudgard, the Telegraph (UK) |
| 10-02-2017 |
English bishop says QC beat him in shed on youth camp |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 10-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury joins MPs in condemning ‘shameful’ neglect of refugee children |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 10-02-2017 |
‘Dangerous’ divisions in US election could hit home post-Brexit, bishops warn |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 10-02-2017 |
Welby writes to Primates as provinces continue to differ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 10-02-2017 |
Critics of Church of England bishops’ sex report plan General Synod protest vote |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 10-02-2017 |
Churches missing out on rent from empty church buildings: UK report |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 10-02-2017 |
Housing crisis exacerbated by developers, C of E bishops warn |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 10-02-2017 |
Outgoing leader of Scottish Episcopal Church ‘not leaving poisoned chalice’ |
BBC News |
| 10-02-2017 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury expresses shock over child migrant change |
ACNS |
| 10-02-2017 |
Diocese of British Colombia urges Canadian Government to let in more refugees |
ACNS |
| 10-02-2017 |
Christians urged to take part in carbon fast during Lent |
ACNS |
| 09-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury calls on Christians to join global wave of prayer |
Anglican Communion News Service video and text |
| 09-02-2017 |
US-based Episcopal Church pledges continuing support for pipeline protest |
ACNS |
| 09-02-2017 |
Archbishop Welby's statement on child refugees |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 09-02-2017 |
Primus of Scottish Episcopal Church announces his retirement |
ACNS |
| 09-02-2017 |
Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall attend retirement dinner for Bishop of London hosted by Archbishop of Canterbury |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 08-02-2017 |
Anglican Choral Evensong to be celebrated at the Vatican |
ACNS |
| 08-02-2017 |
Church, aid and human rights groups call on government to evacuate the refugee camps |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio and text |
| 08-02-2017 |
Is there a religious constituency for Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives? |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio and text |
| 08-02-2017 |
‘Sins Before Our Eyes’ – Archbishop Welby joins Ecumenical Patriarch to fight modern slavery |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 08-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's speech at Istanbul forum on modern slavery |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 08-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury and Ecumenical Patriarch commit to tackling modern slavery |
ACNS |
| 08-02-2017 |
Episcopal Church holds the first of six ‘Revivals’ taking place across US |
ACNS |
| 07-02-2017 |
Thy Kingdom Come 2017: Archbishop of Canterbury launches #PledgeToPray |
Lambeth Palace video, text and images |
| 07-02-2017 |
Bishop reveals he was beaten as a youth by man at centre of multiple allegations |
ACNS |
| 07-02-2017 |
New Coordinator for the International Anglican Family Network |
ACNS |
| 07-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Cape Town speaks out about water ‘inequality’ |
ACNS |
| 06-02-2017 |
Anglican churches around the globe launch ‘JustWater’ |
ACNS |
| 06-02-2017 |
Congregations in South Africa being urged to help tackle water shortage |
ACNS |
| 06-02-2017 |
South Sudan bishop calls for urgent food and medical supplies |
ACNS |
| 06-02-2017 |
Two Sudans' Episcopal archbishop to step down in November |
Radio Tamazuj: Sudanese news crossing borders |
| 06-02-2017 |
Comment by the Archbishop of Canterbury in response to the statement by the Bishop of Guildford revealing the abuse he suffered |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 04-02-2017 |
C of E college apologises for students' attempt to ‘queer evening prayer’ |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 03-02-2017 |
Australian Bishop calls for asylum seeker amnesty |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 03-02-2017 |
Anglican Church warns domestic abuse a ‘significant’ problem in its ranks |
Kelly Burke, The Daily Telegraph (NSW) |
| 03-02-2017 |
Campaign urges Episcopalians to protest at Trump order |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 03-02-2017 |
Trump vows to let churches engage in politics |
Kimberly Winston and Jerome Socolovsky, Religion News Service (US) video, text and images |
| 03-02-2017 |
French Christians urged to ‘face up to political and religious crisis’ |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 03-02-2017 |
No change on marriage after Church of England’s Shared Conversations |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 03-02-2017 |
Critics call Bishops’ gay report ungodly |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 03-02-2017 |
Tributes paid following death of Filipino Bishop Esteban Sabawil |
ACNS |
| 03-02-2017 |
Fire destroys Anglican education secretariat in Nigeria |
ACNS |
| 03-02-2017 |
Traditionalist Bishop appointed to Sheffield, pledges to be ‘bishop for all’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 03-02-2017 |
The Welsh Church is now a ‘more welcoming place’, says retiring Primate |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 02-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury apologises as new abuse allegations come to light |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 02-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury issues ‘unreserved and unequivocal’ apology after links to ‘child abuser’ emerge |
Patrick Foster, Nicola Harley and Lydia Willgress, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 02-02-2017 |
C of E ‘could have done more’ over abuse claims against former Welby colleague |
Kevin Rawlinson and Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 02-02-2017 |
UK review highlights child safeguarding failures |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 02-02-2017 |
Has the Episcopal Church been penalised for its support of gay marriage – or not? |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 02-02-2017 |
Bishop Richard Chartres’ valedictory sermon as Bishop of London: ‘Master, now you are dismissing your servant’ |
Bishop of London transcript and image |
| 02-02-2017 |
New Bishops visit Anglican Communion Office |
ACNS |
| 02-02-2017 |
Next Canadian Anglican-Lutheran Joint Assembly postponed to 2022 |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 02-02-2017 |
Anglican, Lutheran and Buddhist dialogue and collaboration to continue |
ACNS |
| 01-02-2017 |
Neil Gorsuch belongs to a notably liberal church — and would be the first Protestant on the US Supreme Court in years |
Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post |
| 01-02-2017 |
Australian Primate sets out four priorities for 2017 |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 01-02-2017 |
Statement on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury on abuse report |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 01-02-2017 |
Archbishop Welby admits Church ‘failed terribly’ over abuse revelations |
Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News (UK) video, text and images |
| 01-02-2017 |
US Episcopal Church expands its stand with refugees, immigrants and the undocumented |
Pat McCaughan, Episcopal News Service (US) video, text and images |
| 01-02-2017 |
Anglican mission agencies united against US immigration changes |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 01-02-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury sets out vision for 2017 Primates Meeting |
ACNS |
| 01-02-2017 |
Few see Christianity as very important to be ‘truly American’ |
Emily McFarlan Miller, RNS |
| 31-01-2017 |
Applicants sought for key strategic role at Anglican Communion Office |
ACNS |
| 31-01-2017 |
Religious leaders criticise Trump immigration ban |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 31-01-2017 |
Churches wade in on US immigration row |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 31-01-2017 |
Mosque shooting leaves ‘a nation horrified’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 31-01-2017 |
Christian agencies rescue child refugee hostel after funding cut |
ACNS |
| 30-01-2017 |
Malawians asked to emulate life of St Paul |
Peter Chipanga, ACNS |
| 30-01-2017 |
Farewell service for the Archbishop of Wales |
ACNS |
| 30-01-2017 |
Anglicans in France told to help shape debate about religion in public life |
ACNS |
| 29-01-2017 |
Child sex abuse set to cost Perth Anglican diocese more than $1m over three years |
Perth Now (WA) |
| 28-01-2017 |
Church of England bishops reject lifting opposition to same-sex marriage |
Peter Walker, The Independent (UK) |
| 27-01-2017 |
Anglican Church in Melbourne intervenes in debate about a surge in youth crime |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 27-01-2017 |
Same-sex marriage: Church of England ‘should not change stance’ |
BBC News videos, text and images |
| 27-01-2017 |
English bishops call for ‘fresh tone’ to sexuality debate |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 27-01-2017 |
Church of England bishops reject lifting opposition to same-sex marriage |
Henry Bodkin, The Telegraph (UK) videos, text and images |
| 27-01-2017 |
Episcopalians join Trump resistance |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times text and images |
| 27-01-2017 |
No change on marriage in view as English Bishops pledge to update sexuality guidance |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 27-01-2017 |
Prince of Wales attends Anglican Centre in Rome anniversary at Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 27-01-2017 |
UK Government hears Brexit fears of European churches |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 27-01-2017 |
Prince Charles complains Brexit ‘obsession’ has stifled debate on Christian persecution |
Robert Mendick, The Telegraph (UK) video, text and images |
| 27-01-2017 |
New report calls for shift in attitude towards laity |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 27-01-2017 |
‘Prayers answered’ in Gambia as new President takes office without bloodshed |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 27-01-2017 |
Keep Nazanin in the light, says husband of woman imprisoned in Iran |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 27-01-2017 |
Commissioners ‘fail’ to back South African miners, says former Bishop of Pretoria |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 27-01-2017 |
Consecration of first woman bishop in Wales marks ‘end of a long journey’ |
Pat Ashworth, Church Times text and images |
| 26-01-2017 |
Bishop calls for restraint as warring sides clash in South Sudan |
ACNS |
| 26-01-2017 |
Sydney Anglicans in Australia Day Honours |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 26-01-2017 |
Collusion of the silent majority: Archbishop of Canterbury on Holocaust Memorial Day |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 25-01-2017 |
Presiding Bishop, other Episcopal leaders call on Trump to maintain refugee resettlement efforts |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 25-01-2017 |
European diocese explores implications of ‘post-Brexit Britain’ |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 24-01-2017 |
Former Archbishop sworn in as head of Kenyan ethics body |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 24-01-2017 |
Trump signs Dakota Access Pipeline memo to speed process |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 23-01-2017 |
Episcopalians join the world’s spirit-filled Women’s Marches after Trump takes power |
Pat McCaughan, ENS text and images |
| 23-01-2017 |
After presidential power shifts, Episcopalians ask: How should we pray? |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 23-01-2017 |
Pope prays for Trump and will ‘wait and see’ |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 23-01-2017 |
First woman bishop consecrated for Wales |
Pat Ashworth, Church Times |
| 22-01-2017 |
Queen's chaplain resigns over Glasgow cathedral Koran row |
BBC News |
| 21-01-2017 |
Trump inaugural events end in prayer at Washington National Cathedral |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS video, text and images |
| 20-01-2017 |
‘God is not against building walls!’ The sermon Trump heard before his inauguration |
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post |
| 20-01-2017 |
Archbishops of Canterbury and York repent over Reformation’s ‘lasting damage’ |
Ed Thornton, Church Times (UK) |
| 20-01-2017 |
Plans unveiled for Archbishop Janani Luwum 40th anniversary commemorations |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-01-2017 |
Blind eye turned as refugees freeze, agencies say |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 20-01-2017 |
Poll uncovers obstacles for conservative Evangelical women |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 20-01-2017 |
C of E working party sets out a case for acceptable fracking |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 20-01-2017 |
Archbishop Sentamu of York speaks up for England’s north |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 19-01-2017 |
Archbishops call on Christians to repent of differences |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 19-01-2017 |
Appellate Tribunal decision on appeal against deposition by former Bishop of Grafton Keith Slater |
Anglican Church of Australia General Synod office |
| 19-01-2017 |
Sydney’s Archbishop Davies pays tribute to retiring NSW Premier Mike Baird |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 19-01-2017 |
Dr Davies’ statement on resignation of NSW Premier Mike Baird |
Diocese of Sydney media release |
| 19-01-2017 |
Episcopalians approach Donald Trump’s inauguration with prayer |
Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 19-01-2017 |
Pray for Trump, but protest, too, says Curry |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 19-01-2017 |
Both sides take heart from British PM’s Brexit speech |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 19-01-2017 |
Dethroning Mammon: The Archbishop's 2017 Lent Book |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 19-01-2017 |
Anglicans, Lutherans, Buddhists forge links at Myanmar gathering |
ACNS |
| 18-01-2017 |
Nigerian Christian refugees killed in air strike error |
ACNS |
| 18-01-2017 |
New moderator for Church of South India |
ACNS |
| 18-01-2017 |
Taking the side of safety: Preventing sexual abuse in US Episcopal schools |
G Jeffrey MacDonald, The Living Church (US) |
| 17-01-2017 |
Hundreds of mourners attend funeral of inspirational campaigner Jill Saward |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 17-01-2017 |
Religious group linked to Rise Up Australia party loses charity status |
Australian Associated Press/The Guardian Australia |
| 17-01-2017 |
Retired Archbishop Wabukala is Kenya’s new anti-corruption chief after parliamentary vote |
Laban Wanambisi, allafrica.com |
| 17-01-2017 |
Police commissioners planning to apologise to victims of institutional child sex abuse |
Patrick Wright and David Sparkes, ABC News |
| 17-01-2017 |
Reformation Anniversary: Statement from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 16-01-2017 |
Voluntary euthanasia laws to come before NSW Parliament this year |
Sean Nicholls and Kate Aubusson, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 16-01-2017 |
Maori Archbishop Brown Turei laid to rest overlooking New Zealand's Whangaparao Bay |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-01-2017 |
Church ‘distressed’ at Koran offence, says Scottish Primus |
ACNS |
| 16-01-2017 |
Isabelle Hamley licensed as Archbishop's Chaplain |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 16-01-2017 |
Archbishop Makgoba speaks out on ‘crisis’ at universities in South Africa |
ACNS |
| 16-01-2017 |
Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion meet in Chennai |
ACNS |
| 15-01-2017 |
Marriage equality will lead to gender confusion, Australian Christian Lobby claims |
Paul Karp, The Guardian Australia |
| 15-01-2017 |
Rest in peace, and rise in glory: NZ Archbishop Brown Turei laid to rest after six days of Maori funeral rites |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) images and text |
| 15-01-2017 |
Church ‘deeply distressed’ by Koran offence, says Scotland’s Primus |
BBC News |
| 15-01-2017 |
Bishop ‘distressed’ by row following Qur'an reading at cathedral |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-01-2017 |
Pray for the USA: Canada’s Anglican Primate |
Fred Hiltz, ACNS |
| 13-01-2017 |
Some upset over National Cathedral’s decision to participate in Trump’s inauguration |
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post |
| 13-01-2017 |
Should we pray for Trump, Anglican leader asks Christians? |
Alex Williams, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 13-01-2017 |
Unity prayers to recall the Reformation and celebrate reconciliation |
World Council of Churches/ACNS |
| 13-01-2017 |
Statement regarding the Koran reading in St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, from Scottish Anglican leader |
David Chillingworth, Scottish Episcopal Church media release |
| 13-01-2017 |
Police investigate after abuse following cathedral’s Koran reading |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 13-01-2017 |
Online abuse aimed at church over Koran reading probed |
Matt Coyle, STV News (Scotland) |
| 13-01-2017 |
Christians in Asia and India most at risk, says charity |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 13-01-2017 |
British PM confronts ‘hidden injustice’ of mental illness |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 13-01-2017 |
Bishop of Oxford: All-party report deepens integration debate |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 13-01-2017 |
Church of England equips investors to monitor climate impact |
Hattie Williams, Church Times text and images |
| 13-01-2017 |
UK gay lobby groups join forces to fight for LGBT inclusion in the Church |
Carey Lodge, Christian Today (UK) |
| 13-01-2017 |
English Deans defend cathedrals’ independence |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 13-01-2017 |
Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein leader quits Government, accuses Democratic Unionists of bigotry |
Gregg Ryan, Church Times |
| 12-01-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury urged to discipline cathedral over Koran reading |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 12-01-2017 |
Statement of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Curry regarding prayers for the President |
Episcopal Church Office for Public Affairs (US) transcript |
| 12-01-2017 |
Prayers and the Presidency: The Bishop of Washington DC defends hosting interfaith Inaugural prayer service in her cathedral |
Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Diocese of Washington (US) |
| 12-01-2017 |
Israel announces late charges against World Vision official after plea deal rejected |
Sophie McNeill, ABC News video, text and images |
| 12-01-2017 |
Reflections from Auschwitz: Archbishop of Canterbury |
Justin Welby, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 12-01-2017 |
Body of NZ Anglican Church co-leader taken to marae ahead of weekend funeral |
stuff.co.nz (NZ) |
| 12-01-2017 |
Episcopal leaders address Church’s part in Trump’s inauguration |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 12-01-2017 |
Indian Church responds to devastating Cyclone Vardah |
ACNS |
| 12-01-2017 |
God provides refuge in face of persecution, Nigerian Archbishop says |
ACNS |
| 12-01-2017 |
Le Pen slams French presidential rival Fillon over use of religion in politics |
Andrew Callus, Religion News Service (US) |
| 11-01-2017 |
US diocese acquires solar energy farm |
ACNS |
| 11-01-2017 |
Controversy over Koran reading in Scottish cathedral deepens with denial that Jesus is Son of God |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 11-01-2017 |
Beautifully restored NZ church relinquished as couple make new life in Australia |
Colleen Hawkes, stuff.co.nz images and text |
| 11-01-2017 |
Christians in India increasingly under attack, study shows |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 11-01-2017 |
Trump must aid persecuted Christians or his presidency will fail, says Open Doors |
Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service (US) |
| 11-01-2017 |
In farewell, Obama urges faith and political engagement |
Emily McFarlan Miller, RNS |
| 11-01-2017 |
Indian chaplain inducted as Anglican university and colleges network’s second Distinguished Fellow |
ACNS |
| 10-01-2017 |
New Zealand co-Primate Archbishop Brown Turei dies at 92 |
Anglican Communion News Service/Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 10-01-2017 |
Archbishop Brown Turei passes away |
Aroha Treacher, Maori Television (NZ) video and text |
| 09-01-2017 |
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali condemns Koran reading at Anglican cathedral Epiphany service |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 09-01-2017 |
The Obama presidency: ‘War on religion’ or ‘Amazing Grace’? |
Adelle M Banks, Religion News Service (US) |
| 07-01-2017 |
Church in Wales marks 20 years of women priests |
George Herd, BBC News video, images and text |
| 07-01-2017 |
German police quash Breitbart story of mob setting fire to Dortmund church |
The Guardian Australia/Agence France-Presse |
| 06-01-2017 |
Call for Perth Archbishop to give up pension in wake of child abuse royal commission |
David Marchese, ABC News |
| 06-01-2017 |
Church of England bishops urge less hate, more courage and more heart |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 06-01-2017 |
Prayers for Turkey after terrorist attack |
Gerald Butt, Church Times |
| 06-01-2017 |
Knighthood for bishop who chaired Hillsborough panel |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 06-01-2017 |
Search for next Bishop of London raises prospect of female appointment |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 06-01-2017 |
People of faith give 490,000 hours to help the homeless: UK report |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 06-01-2017 |
Norwegian Church passes milestone in modification of its links with State |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 04-01-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury backs Cape Town’s Archbishop Makgoba in Church v State row |
ACNS |
| 04-01-2017 |
Canada’s Governor-General celebrates New Year’s Day at Anglican cathedral |
Art Babych, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 03-01-2017 |
Archbishop Welby preaches at St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 03-01-2017 |
The new US Congress is 91% Christian. That’s barely budged since 1961. |
Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times |
| 02-01-2017 |
A living fellowship of churches: ACC Chair and Hong Kong Primate’s New Year reflection |
Paul Kwong, Anglican Communion News Service blog |
| 02-01-2017 |
Wife of Quebec's Anglican bishop becomes priest |
Melissa Fundira, CBC News (Canada) text and images |
| 02-01-2017 |
Kenyan Archbishop urges politicians to embrace dialogue to avoid pre-election violence |
Faith Nyami, Daily Nation (Kenya) video and text |
| 01-01-2017 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's 2017 New Year Message |
Lambeth Palace/BBC video and transcript |
| 01-01-2017 |
Archbishop of Canterbury focuses on reconciliation for New Year Message |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text, transcript and image/BBC video |
| 31-12-2016 |
Egyptian Archbishop rebuts ‘lack of support’ claims against Archbishop of Canterbury |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 31-12-2016 |
Preview: ‘For the Love of God’ interviews with Miroslav Volf, Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams, Alister McGrath, Marilynne Robinson and others |
Centre for Public Christianity video |
| 28-12-2016 |
The Queen: ‘I follow Christ’s example’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 27-12-2016 |
Fiji suffers again |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 25-12-2016 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas Sermon |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 24-12-2016 |
Melbourne terrorist plot: Four charged, one in custody over alleged Christmas Day attack plan |
ABC News videos, text and images |
| 23-12-2016 |
‘Celebrate Christmas wholeheartedly’: Cathedral unshaken by terror plot |
Rania Spooner, The Age video, text and image |
| 23-12-2016 |
Worship without fear: Melbourne Archbishop |
Helen Velissaris, Australian Associated Press/news.com.au |
| 23-12-2016 |
Security services foil Christmas Day cathedral terror plot |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 23-12-2016 |
Melbourne terror raids: Seven arrested as police foil planned Christmas Day terror attack in CBD |
Nino Bucci, Bianca Hall, Richard Willingham and Rania Spooner, The Age video, images and text |
| 23-12-2016 |
What do we know about the alleged foiled Christmas attack? |
ABC News video, text and images |
| 23-12-2016 |
Accused Melbourne terror plotters face court |
Sky News Australia/Australian Associated Press video, text and images |
| 23-12-2016 |
Video: Melbourne terror plot |
Ten Eyewitness News video |
| 23-12-2016 |
Why police moved on Christmas terror suspects |
John Silvester, The Age video, images and text |
| 23-12-2016 |
ISIS issues hit list of US churches for holiday attacks |
John Bacon, Religion News Service (US) video, images and text |
| 23-12-2016 |
Decision on future of Christchurch Cathedral delayed |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 23-12-2016 |
Pray for peace and peace-builders as half a million children starve in Yemen |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-12-2016 |
Australian Christian Lobby headquarters damaged by van explosion ‘not politically, religiously motivated’ |
ABC News video, images and text |
| 22-12-2016 |
ACL van explosion not politically motivated, police say |
Paul Karp and Amber Jamieson, The Guardian Australia video and text |
| 22-12-2016 |
Van drove into ACL's Canberra headquarters and 'exploded' |
Latika Bourke, Bevan Shields, Clare Sibthorpe and Fergus Hunter, The Age video, images and text |
| 22-12-2016 |
First Black and Minority Ethnic episcopal appointment made in Church of England for 20 years |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 22-12-2016 |
No deal on quake-damaged Christchurch Cathedral before Christmas |
Charlie Gates, stuff.co.nz video and text |
| 22-12-2016 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Ecumenical Christmas Letter |
Lambeth Palace text |
| 22-12-2016 |
Ballarat Bishop Garry Weatherill’s Christmas Message 2016 |
Diocese of Ballarat transcript |
| 22-12-2016 |
Asia Bibi: Christmas in a prison cell |
Martin Bashir, BBC News text and images |
| 22-12-2016 |
Aid agencies issue warning after Syrians flee Aleppo |
Gerald Butt, Church Times |
| 22-12-2016 |
Bishops reflect on ‘extraordinary’ year |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 22-12-2016 |
Washington National Cathedral to host customary post-inaugural prayer service |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 22-12-2016 |
Christmas Message from the Chair of the Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop Paul Kwong of Hong Kong |
ACNS video and transcript |
| 21-12-2016 |
‘Targeted for elimination’: Syria’s Christians and divisions in Australia over accepting ‘persecuted minorities’ |
Chris Ray, SBS text and images |
| 21-12-2016 |
Senior Church of England clergy ‘not diverse enough’: House of Commons Speaker’s chaplain |
Martin Bashir, BBC News video and text |
| 21-12-2016 |
British Christians held back by ‘cultural’ embarrassment about talking about faith – new African-born bishop |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 21-12-2016 |
Former Archbishop of Canterbury's picture removed from King's College London amid concerns about his views on gay marriage |
Lydia Willgress, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 21-12-2016 |
Rape as a weapon of war: Congo Anglicans providing care for victims |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-12-2016 |
Christmas message from Primate of South-East Asia, Archbishop Moon Hing |
Anglican Communion News Service transcript |
| 21-12-2016 |
Gippsland Bishop Kay Goldsworthy’s 2016 Christmas Message |
Diocese of Gippsland transcript |
| 20-12-2016 |
Truth overcomes in a post-truth world: Archbishop of Sydney’s Christmas message |
Glenn Davies, Sydney Anglicans video, audio and transcript |
| 20-12-2016 |
Church of England bishop pleads for no ‘political posturing’ after Berlin attack |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 20-12-2016 |
European bishops respond to Christmas market terror attack in Berlin |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-12-2016 |
Berlin attack: Church warns against refugee revenge |
Antony Bushfield, Premier Media (UK) audio, text and images |
| 20-12-2016 |
Cultural ‘first’ appointments highlight diversity of Anglican Communion |
Gavin Drake and Erica Tricarico, ACNS/Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 20-12-2016 |
Church of England appoints first black bishop in 20 years |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 20-12-2016 |
First Nigerian bishop in C of E counters Islamist terror with message of love in Jesus Christ |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) video, images and text |
| 20-12-2016 |
Kenyan President Uhuru nominates former Anglican Primate Eliud Wabukala to head anti-corruption commission |
Patrick Lang’at, Daily Nation (Kenya) |
| 20-12-2016 |
Joint Christmas message from the Primates of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in Ireland |
Richard Clarke and Eamon Martin, ACNS |
| 19-12-2016 |
Keeping the faith: How migrants are reviving Christian churches in Australia |
Vesna Nazor, SBS World News video and text |
| 19-12-2016 |
‘No Christmas or carol singing’ orders in Santa Claus’ homeland Turkey |
World Watch Monitor (UK) |
| 19-12-2016 |
US-based Episcopal Church plans Revival events to ‘stir and renew hearts for Jesus’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-12-2016 |
Anglican Church of Burundi to plant 10 million trees in five years |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 18-12-2016 |
Questions over Church of England celibacy vows for gay clergy |
Aaron James, Premier Media (UK) |
| 17-12-2016 |
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews accused of caving in to ‘right-wing bigotry’ over Safe Schools |
Farrah Tomazin, The Age |
| 16-12-2016 |
Perth Archbishop Roger Herft resigns after admitting to let down sex abuse survivors |
ABC News |
| 16-12-2016 |
Perth Archbishop to retire early |
Anglican Primate of Australia |
| 16-12-2016 |
Perth’s Archbishop Herft resigns: ‘I’ve let them down’ |
The West Australian |
| 16-12-2016 |
Civilians in Aleppo suffer as Assad forces triumph |
Gerald Butt, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 16-12-2016 |
US priest rallies support for displaced Iraqi Christians |
David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 16-12-2016 |
Charities call for urgent care to aid 18 million Yemenis |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 16-12-2016 |
US conservatives manipulating African Anglicans, says Secretary-General of Anglican Communion |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 16-12-2016 |
Boxing Day sales ‘exploit retail workers’, warn British MPs and Church of England |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 16-12-2016 |
York Minster bell-ringers sacked over stance on ‘ongoing’ abuse risk to children |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 16-12-2016 |
London clergy join scheme to house asylum-seekers |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 16-12-2016 |
English nurse fights dismissal for quizzing patients on their faith |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 16-12-2016 |
Sunday sermons shed light on colonial ‘Flogging Parson’ Samuel Marsden |
Nick Gilbert, Sydney Anglicans |
| 16-12-2016 |
Pakistan President honours bishop’s human rights work |
Gavin Drake, ACNS image and text |
| 16-12-2016 |
Primate’s Commission on Discovery, Reconciliation and Justice proposes four paths to reconciliation in Canada |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 15-12-2016 |
Statement by the Anglican Diocese of Perth on Archbishop Roger Herft |
Diocese of Perth text |
| 15-12-2016 |
Starving communities in Africa reduced to eating toxic locusts |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 15-12-2016 |
Christmas Pastoral Letter from Bishop Stuart Robinson |
Anglican Community of Canberra and Goulburn text |
| 15-12-2016 |
Common Declaration offers insights for Anglican Communion relationships |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 15-12-2016 |
New member for Archbishop’s Anglican Communion Task group |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 15-12-2016 |
Uganda’s Anglican Primate Stanley Ntagali puts focus on families in Christmas message |
ACNS |
| 15-12-2016 |
Wellington’s St Paul’s Cathedral re-opens for Christmas |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and image/One News (NZ) video |
| 14-12-2016 |
Webinar celebrates and challenges churches on gender-based violence |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 13-12-2016 |
A bloke called Barry and the Jesus bikes parked around Melbourne |
Tom Cowie, The Age images and text |
| 13-12-2016 |
Jakarta's Governor Ahok hears blasphemy indictment as court guarded by hundreds of police |
Samantha Hawley, ABC News video, image and text |
| 13-12-2016 |
Jakarta Governor Ahok, godson to Muslims, gives emotional defence at his blasphemy trial |
Jewel Topsfield, The Age video, images and text |
| 13-12-2016 |
One quake zone, one church |
Julianne Clarke-Morris, Anglican Taonga (NZ) text and images |
| 13-12-2016 |
Churches step up action on climate change |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 12-12-2016 |
Three days of mourning declared after 25 people killed in Cairo church bomb |
Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian Australia video, text and images |
| 12-12-2016 |
Cairo bombing: Churches Together in England Presidents issue joint statement |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 12-12-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury writes in support of UK Christmas appeal for homeless |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 12-12-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Christmas Message 2016 |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/Episcopal News Service (US) video and transcript |
| 11-12-2016 |
WCC General Secretary mourns lost lives, calls for end to violence |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 11-12-2016 |
Experienced nurse fired from job after offering to pray for patients waiting for surgery |
Lexi Finnigan, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 09-12-2016 |
Secretary-General Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon on issues facing the Anglican Communion |
Ian Ellis, The Church of Ireland Gazette audio |
| 09-12-2016 |
Archbishop Welby visits centre for refugees |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 09-12-2016 |
Message from Adelaide’s Archbishop-elect Geoff Smith |
Diocese of Adelaide text |
| 09-12-2016 |
Astronaut, senator and Presbyterian John Glenn saw no conflict between beliefs in God and science |
Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service (US) images and text |
| 09-12-2016 |
Integration is failing many, British review into minority communities says |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 09-12-2016 |
UK Home Office turns down visas for Syrian archbishops |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 09-12-2016 |
Trump advisers: The faith factor |
Emily McFarlan Miller and Kimberly Winston, RNS |
| 09-12-2016 |
Evangelicals in Trump’s Cabinet: Choice of Pruitt alarms scientists, environmentalists |
Kimberly Winston, RNS |
| 09-12-2016 |
Oldest bell foundry in UK to close |
Prudence Fay, Church Times text and slideshow |
| 09-12-2016 |
Church of England Canon Jeremy Pemberton loses same-sex marriage tribunal appeal |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 08-12-2016 |
Euthanasia bill: Victorian Parliament to vote on assisted dying laws next year |
Richard Willingham and Rania Spooner, The Age video, text and images |
| 08-12-2016 |
The light from Bethlehem: WCC leader on the quest for justice and peace |
World Council of Churches text |
| 08-12-2016 |
Hospital chaplain loses same-sex wedding discrimination appeal |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 08-12-2016 |
Burundian Anglicans establish safe house for victims of gender-based violence |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and image |
| 08-12-2016 |
Irish faith leaders stress the dignity of human life in the Holy Land |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and image |
| 07-12-2016 |
2016 Christmas Messages from Leaders of Christian Churches in Australia |
National Council of Churches in Australia media release |
| 06-12-2016 |
Archbishop Welby gives homily at Advent service for Westminster MPs and staff |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 05-12-2016 |
What Theresa May's Christmas plans tell us about her faith |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 05-12-2016 |
Water protectors, supporters rejoice over victory for Native Americans |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 05-12-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on news from Standing Rock |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs media release/ENS |
| 04-12-2016 |
Adelaide’s new Anglican Archbishop Geoffrey Smith lines up vision for future |
Jade Gailberger, The Advertiser (SA) text and images |
| 03-12-2016 |
Anglican Diocese of Adelaide elects new Archbishop |
Diocese of Adelaide media release |
| 03-12-2016 |
Welby traces ‘British’ values back to scripture |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 02-12-2016 |
Aleppo ‘needs aid delivered urgently’ |
Gerald Butt, Church Times |
| 02-12-2016 |
‘Daily bread’ sent to Southern Africa |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 02-12-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's speech in House of Lords debate on UK values |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 02-12-2016 |
US Christians are suffering from ‘too much’ politics |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 02-12-2016 |
Mammon grips us, says Welby in Lent thrust at capitalism |
Paul Handley, Church Times |
| 01-12-2016 |
Speak about your faith freely, British Prime Minister assures Christians |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 30-11-2016 |
Christians should not fear speaking about their faith at work and in public places, British PM Theresa May says |
Steven Swinford, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 30-11-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop urges North Dakota governor, sheriff ‘to monitor the nature and tone of the policing actions’ on Standing Rock |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs media release |
| 29-11-2016 |
Youthworks College on the move to Moore |
Judy Adamson, Sydney Anglicans |
| 29-11-2016 |
Ruth Mawhinney announced as Archbishop of Canterbury's head of media |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 28-11-2016 |
Archbishop and Moderator sign Columba Declaration between Church of England and Kirk |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 27-11-2016 |
Theresa May says her Christian faith helps her make difficult decisions |
Laura Hughes, The Telegraph (UK) videos, text and images |
| 25-11-2016 |
Church of England senior official William Nye rebukes GAFCON for ‘misleading’ briefing on sexuality |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 25-11-2016 |
Review of wartime English Bishop George Bell’s child abuse case will be rigorous, Lord Carlile insists |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 25-11-2016 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes South Sudan Council of Churches to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 24-11-2016 |
Bishop says child abuse cover-up like ‘religious protection racket’ |
Anne Connolly, ABC TV ‘7.30’ video and transcript |
| 24-11-2016 |
Royal commission: Newcastle bishop told by priest sexual favours would further his career |
David Marchese, ABC News |
| 24-11-2016 |
Bishop Greg Thompson names abusers as Royal Commission hearing ends |
Ian Kirkwood, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) videos, text and images |
| 24-11-2016 |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the Newcastle Anglican diocese, public hearing, Day 16 |
Ian Kirkwood, The Newcastle Herald video, text and images |
| 24-11-2016 |
Video: UN celebrates refugees' contributions to Australian society |
United Nations High Commission for Refugees video/The Guardian Australia |
| 24-11-2016 |
Daniel Andrews unveils Victoria's 10-year domestic violence plan |
Melissa Davey, The Guardian Australia |
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| 23-11-2016 |
Church calls for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 23-11-2016 |
Child abuse royal commission: Defrocked Anglican dean denies leading group of paedophile priests |
David Marchese, ABC News text and images |
| 23-11-2016 |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the Newcastle Anglican diocese public hearing, Day 15 |
Ian Kirkwood and Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald video, text and images |
| 23-11-2016 |
Former Newcastle dean gives evidence for second day |
Ian Kirkwood, The Newcastle Herald video, text and images |
| 23-11-2016 |
Faith communities unite on Red Wednesday for victims of religious persecution |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 23-11-2016 |
Faith communities show solidarity in wake of graffiti attacks |
Art Babych, Anglican Journal (Canada)/ACNS |
| 23-11-2016 |
Church of England issues fierce rebuke to conservative body GAFCON |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 23-11-2016 |
Victorian Governor reflects on the intersection of science and religion |
Linda Dessau, Speech at launch of ‘Gesher’ Journal (Council of Christians and Jews), Government House Melbourne text |
| 23-11-2016 |
British landmarks lit up red for people killed or persecuted for their faith |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) videos, text and images |
| 22-11-2016 |
A congregational cuppa in Mooroopna Anglican church’s new Canteen |
Grace Evans, Shepparton News text and image |
| 22-11-2016 |
Burundi celebrates half-century of first diocese |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-11-2016 |
Hollywood actor charts ‘abused and abandoned’ girls’ poetic journey started by Episcopalian priest |
Gavin Drake, ACNS video, text and image |
| 21-11-2016 |
Transport woes a roadblock for young jobless: new BSL report |
Brotherhood of St Laurence media release |
| 21-11-2016 |
WA Anglican parish hosts Muslim prayers |
Ryan Emery, SBS World News video, text and images |
| 21-11-2016 |
Archbishop Justin Welby meets Pakistan terror victims |
Gavin Drake, ACNS video, text and images |
| 21-11-2016 |
Video: Church of Pakistan Moderator reflects on Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 21-11-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Pakistan |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 21-11-2016 |
Faiths applaud ‘unprecedented global consensus’ on climate change action at COP22 |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-11-2016 |
Nations, interfaith community reaffirm commitment to cut carbon emissions |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 21-11-2016 |
New Ecumenical Adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury announced |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 21-11-2016 |
Christian heritage found ransacked in monastery retaken from Islamic State |
Stephen Kalin, Religion News Service (US) text and images |
| 20-11-2016 |
Canadian Anglicans seek ‘reconciliation animator’ |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 19-11-2016 |
Indigenous Anglicans in Canada lay out self-determination plan |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 18-11-2016 |
Child abuse royal commission: Disgraced dean Graeme Lawrence interrogated |
David Marchese, ABC News |
| 18-11-2016 |
Royal Commission: Defrocked former Anglican dean starts giving evidence |
Ian Kirkwood and Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) video, text and images |
| 18-11-2016 |
Worshippers gather in Jakarta to pray for peace as Christian Governor faces blasphemy charges |
Samantha Hawley, ABC News |
| 18-11-2016 |
US Episcopalians pledge resistance to hate crimes |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 18-11-2016 |
Welby: Christians and Jews must work together to remind Brexit Britain how to disagree well |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 18-11-2016 |
Brexit poses ‘unprecedented levels’ of financial risk to aid agencies, says Christian charity chief |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 18-11-2016 |
Bishop slams as ‘outrageous’ a list that names people in the C of E said to have violated Lambeth Conference resolution on sexuality |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 18-11-2016 |
Church of South India celebrates mission’s bicentenary |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 18-11-2016 |
Convert moved to safe-house after threat to life |
Abigail Frymann Rouch, Church Times text and ITV images |
| 18-11-2016 |
Prime slot for UK interfaith pair as vicar and imam star in Amazon advert |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times |
| 18-11-2016 |
Abuse claims incorrect: ex-NSW priest |
9news.com.au/Australian Associated Press |
| 18-11-2016 |
University of Sydney Anglican college refuses to take part in misogyny inquest |
Naaman Zhou, The Guardian Australia |
| 18-11-2016 |
New academy facilitates theological studies – south Asian style |
ACNS text and image |
| 17-11-2016 |
Child abuse royal commission: Take power away from Church, former Newcastle bishop says |
David Marchese, ABC News |
| 17-11-2016 |
Bishop says church morality compromised by child sex scandals |
Rebekah Ison, Australian Associated Press/The Australian |
| 17-11-2016 |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the Newcastle Anglican diocese public hearing, Day 13 |
Joanne McCarthy, Newcastle Herald (NSW) video, text and images |
| 17-11-2016 |
Voluntary euthanasia laws fail to pass South Australian parliament by one vote |
The Guardian Australia/Australian Associated Press |
| 17-11-2016 |
Churches damaged by New Zealand earthquake |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service text and image |
| 17-11-2016 |
Immoral living not the cause of earthquakes, says Maori Archbishop |
Mānia Clarke, Maori Television (NZ) video and text |
| 17-11-2016 |
Literal interpretation of Bible ‘helps increase church attendance’ |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 17-11-2016 |
Archbishops of Kenya and Canterbury meet for fellowship and prayer |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and image |
| 17-11-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury speaks on ‘the common good and a shared vision for the next century’ |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 17-11-2016 |
Black clergy in US encouraged to reclaim Jesus and his movement |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) videos, text and image |
| 17-11-2016 |
‘Forces at play’ threaten reconciliation in Canada |
Art Babych, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 17-11-2016 |
First day of Canada’s Council of General Synod emphasises unity |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 16-11-2016 |
Child abuse royal commission: Church official denies trying to ‘destroy’ Newcastle Anglican bishop |
David Marchese, ABC News |
| 16-11-2016 |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the Newcastle Anglican diocese public hearing resumes, Day 12 |
Joanne McCarthy, Newcastle Herald (NSW) video, text and images |
| 16-11-2016 |
Priest accused of abuse ‘greatly loved’ |
Rebekah Ison, AAP/news.com.au |
| 16-11-2016 |
Wellington Cathedral evacuated, cordoned off after NZ quake |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) text and images |
| 16-11-2016 |
Jakarta's Christian governor to face blasphemy trial over Islam insult claim |
Kate Lamb, The Guardian Australia |
| 16-11-2016 |
Millions face starvation as famine hits southern Africa |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-11-2016 |
Nordic faith communities expand faith-based gender justice network |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 16-11-2016 |
Celebrations mark 800th anniversary of historic Irish diocesan unification |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 16-11-2016 |
Canterbury, Kenya meet at Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 16-11-2016 |
Black clergy discuss Church’s role in reconciling society |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 15-11-2016 |
Training care for refugees |
Nick Gilbert, Sydney Anglicans |
| 15-11-2016 |
New study explores growth and decline in the Anglican Communion |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 15-11-2016 |
The Episcopal Church welcomes you: US Presiding Bishop’s message during transition to Trump |
Michael Curry, ACNS text |
| 14-11-2016 |
Episcopal churches in Maryland, Indiana vandalised with hate speech |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 14-11-2016 |
Episcopalians respond to Donald Trump election victory |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service text, image and video |
| 14-11-2016 |
Archbishop Welby and Chief Rabbi launch Rabbis and Priests Social Action Initiative |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 14-11-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at Year of Mercy closing service at Westminster Cathedral |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 13-11-2016 |
Calls for former Newcastle Anglican dean Graeme Lawrence to be stripped of his awards |
Ian Kirkwood, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 11-11-2016 |
Trump win is climate ‘disaster’ |
Joe Ware, Church Times (UK) |
| 11-11-2016 |
Welby condemns media reaction to Brexit ruling |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 11-11-2016 |
Egypt diocese embroiled in independence dispute |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 11-11-2016 |
Sierra Leone marks Ebola-free year |
Church Times text and images |
| 11-11-2016 |
Reports shed light on Fresh Expressions’ growth |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 11-11-2016 |
Leonard Cohen dies age 82, ending iconic career spanning literature and music |
ABC News video, images and text |
| 10-11-2016 |
Election restrictions lifted, US clergy speak candidly |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times text and images |
| 10-11-2016 |
White Christians help to sweep Trump to power |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times text, images and graphic |
| 10-11-2016 |
Faith leaders petition Michelle Guthrie over ABC religious programming cuts |
Amanda Meade, The Guardian Australia |
| 10-11-2016 |
Public hearing into Anglican Diocese of Newcastle to resume in Sydney |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 10-11-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury appoints new Head of Media |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 09-11-2016 |
‘Festive’ Christmas cribs in France's town halls don't flout secularism, top court rules |
Henry Samuel, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 09-11-2016 |
Religious leaders meet ABC Managing Director over cuts to religion content |
Brendan Trembath, ABC Radio National 'The World Today' audio |
| 09-11-2016 |
Sex abuse royal commission recommends adverse findings against former Geelong Grammar School headmasters |
Guy Stayner, ABC News |
| 09-11-2016 |
Submissions for public hearing into Geelong Grammar published |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 09-11-2016 |
Episcopalian leaders react to US election results |
Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 09-11-2016 |
US election: Statement from Archbishop Justin Welby |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 09-11-2016 |
Video: Election Day message from the Presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/Episcopal News Service (US) video and text |
| 08-11-2016 |
'Considerably reduced' ABC religious programming contravenes charter, church leaders say |
Brendan Trembath, ABC Radio 'The World Today' text, image and audio |
| 08-11-2016 |
Moore College’s multi-million-dollar redevelopment unveiled |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 08-11-2016 |
Episcopalians meet fellow voters with vigils, prayer, hospitality |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS text and images |
| 08-11-2016 |
Same-sex marriage plebiscite bill blocked by Senate |
Francis Keany and Julia Holman, ABC News videos and text |
| 07-11-2016 |
New Canon for St Paul’s: Rhys Bezzant |
St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne text and image |
| 07-11-2016 |
Turnbull Government's same-sex marriage plebiscite defeated in late-night Senate vote |
Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald text and video |
| 07-11-2016 |
Research report on disability and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts released |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 07-11-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury announces French-born Isabelle Hamley as new Chaplain |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 04-11-2016 |
Domestic violence training stepped up in Sydney diocese |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 04-11-2016 |
Anglican Diocese of Adelaide redress statement |
Tim Harris, Diocese of Adelaide media release |
| 04-11-2016 |
Welby: Democracy fails if it does not value individuals |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 04-11-2016 |
Americans called to prayer as polling day approaches |
Church Times |
| 04-11-2016 |
End political, sectarian strife, urges Mosul prelate |
Gerald Butt, Church Times text and image |
| 04-11-2016 |
Parents fear that religion will make their children outcasts |
Danny Boyle, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 04-11-2016 |
First woman bishop in Wales elected |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 04-11-2016 |
Cathedral loses an old friend as fire engulfs ancient hotel in Exeter |
Hattie Williams, Church Times text and images |
| 04-11-2016 |
Lutherans and RCs ‘yearn’ for unity, 499 years on |
Gavin Drake, Church Times text and images |
| 03-11-2016 |
Royal Commission calls for submissions about various religious institutions, including Anglican Church |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 03-11-2016 |
Episcopalians on ‘cutting edge’ with election season pastoral care |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS text and images |
| 02-11-2016 |
Archbishop Welby’s speech in Abu Dhabi on religious freedom |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 02-11-2016 |
Donald Trump: A useful pagan? |
Andrew West with Neil Young, ABC Radio National ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ audio and text |
| 02-11-2016 |
Melbourne Anglican scholar Professor Dorothy Lee on Forgiveness and reconciliation: The Lutheran and Catholic churches bridge a 500-year schism |
Andrew West with Dorothy Lee, ABC Radio National ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ audio and text |
| 02-11-2016 |
Australian aid agencies honour Anglican missions’ chief |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 01-11-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury sends greetings for Diwali |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 01-11-2016 |
The Cross, deemed illegal by IS, returns to Iraq’s Nineveh Plain |
World Watch Monitor (UK) text and images |
| 29-10-2016 |
Adelaide Administrator Bishop Tim Harris’ Synod sermon |
Tim Harris, Adelaide Anglicans text and image |
| 29-10-2016 |
President’s Pastoral Address to Adelaide Synod |
Tim Harris, Adelaide Anglicans text and image |
| 29-10-2016 |
Perth Administrator’s Address to Perth Synod |
Kate Wilmot, Diocese of Perth text |
| 28-10-2016 |
Bishop Kate Wilmot’s sermon at Perth Synod Eucharist |
Kate Wilmot, Diocese of Perth text |
| 28-10-2016 |
Restorers lift the lid on Jesus' tomb in Jerusalem |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia text and images |
| 28-10-2016 |
British families only attend church at Christmas, new figures suggest |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 27-10-2016 |
Bishop of Egypt calls for prayer and advocacy after ‘hostile takeover’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 27-10-2016 |
Anglican Church in Egypt under ‘heavy attack’ – from other Christians |
Mark Woods, Christian Today (UK) |
| 27-10-2016 |
Visiting Anglicans hear of Middle East Church’s work with Syrian internally displaced people and refugees |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 27-10-2016 |
NZ Dean Michael Godfrey reinstated following appeal |
Victoria White, Hawke’s Bay Today (NZ) |
| 27-10-2016 |
Bisexual Church of England vicar sacked over orgies and prostitutes after wife exposes his double life |
Lexi Finnigan, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 26-10-2016 |
Priest wins appeal over extramarital affairs |
Radio New Zealand text and image |
| 26-10-2016 |
‘Every community needs a church,’ Nigerian Primate says |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 26-10-2016 |
Churches stand in solidarity with Ethiopian Christians |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 24-10-2016 |
Independent body to investigate sex abuse complaints |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 24-10-2016 |
Bells toll for the dead of Aleppo |
Gavin Drake, ACNS video and text |
| 22-10-2016 |
Former Archbishop of Canterbury admits he deserves criticism over ex-bishop sex abuse 'cover-up' |
Robert Mendick, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 21-10-2016 |
Charity questions Asia Bibi blasphemy case adjournment |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 21-10-2016 |
Religious groups discuss practical ways to tackle extremism |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 21-10-2016 |
Welby and Kirill united through ‘loyalty to Christ’ |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 21-10-2016 |
Wales remembers 116 children ‘buried alive by the National Coal Board’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and image |
| 21-10-2016 |
Services held to commemorate 50th anniversary of Aberfan disaster |
Helen Saxbee, Church Times text and images |
| 21-10-2016 |
New UN Secretary-General to take on the ‘most impossible job on earth’ |
Paul Vallely, Church Times |
| 21-10-2016 |
Rainbow flags cut down from north London church |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 21-10-2016 |
Church leaders: South Africa facing constitutional crisis |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-10-2016 |
No one should be excluded or left behind – South African Church leaders |
Office of the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town/allAfrica.com media release |
| 21-10-2016 |
Parental leave for parish clergy adopted by Sydney Synod |
Nick Gilbert, Sydney Anglicans |
| 21-10-2016 |
Welcome all the Calais refugee children, Lord Williams urges |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 21-10-2016 |
Lord Carey ‘may face explicit criticism’ from abuse inquiry |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 20-10-2016 |
Aleppo hospital bombing constitutes war crime, says Church in Wales |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-10-2016 |
Episcopal agency working in Haiti and south-east US following Hurricane Matthew |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-10-2016 |
Why all kinds of religious leaders are essential for building peaceful societies: Archbishop of Canterbury’s adviser on reconciliation at Foreign Office conference |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 20-10-2016 |
Revd Dr Gordon Preece appointed interim Director of University of Divinity’s new Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy |
University of Divinity media release |
| 19-10-2016 |
Safeguarding issue silences bells of York Minster |
Paul Wilkinson and Prudence Fay, Church Times (UK) |
| 19-10-2016 |
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill visits Archbishop of Canterbury |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-10-2016 |
Britain’s Royal Mint turns to bishop for Christmas coin design |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 18-10-2016 |
Church of Pakistan remembers its martyrs |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 18-10-2016 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes Russian Patriarch Kirill to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 18-10-2016 |
Patriarch of Serbia visits the Archbishop of Canterbury |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 18-10-2016 |
Chilean Anglicans to March for Jesus on Reformation Day |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-10-2016 |
Adelaide Pentecostal church leaves network over LGBT issues |
John Sandeman, Eternity (Bible Society Australia) |
| 17-10-2016 |
Evangelical leaders urge Church of England bishops to commit to ‘Christian moral vision’ |
Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) text |
| 17-10-2016 |
Election of gay bishop in Canada spurs complaint to Welby |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 17-10-2016 |
Nigerian Primate’s ‘delight’ at release of Chibok girls |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-10-2016 |
California bishops support abolition of death penalty |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-10-2016 |
Anglican solidarity after Roman Catholic cathedral burgled |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and images |
| 16-10-2016 |
Former WA Premier Richard Court backs Anglican Archbishop of Perth Roger Herft |
Joe Spagnolo, Perth Now (WA) |
| 15-10-2016 |
Catholics ‘overwhelmed’ by Anglican cash after break-in |
Alex Williams, Premier Media (UK) text and images |
| 14-10-2016 |
Church of England could soon remove legal requirement for regular Sunday services |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 14-10-2016 |
Cairo bishop urges Church to be ready for martyrdom |
World Watch Monitor (UK) |
| 14-10-2016 |
West African Anglicans plan five-year post-Ebola mission strategy |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-10-2016 |
Official visit of the Serbian Patriarch to the Archbishop of Canterbury – Day 2 |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 14-10-2016 |
Canadian Primate to participate in Mission to Seafarers’ 160th anniversary Christmas celebrations |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-10-2016 |
Take action at home, Global South leaders told |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 14-10-2016 |
Haiti braced for cholera outbreak after hurricane |
Gavin Drake, Church Times text and images |
| 14-10-2016 |
Russia condemned in Commons debate on Aleppo violence |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 14-10-2016 |
English cathedrals trade fair in chocolate bars |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times text and slideshow |
| 13-10-2016 |
Sydney Synod approves gay marriage booklet |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 13-10-2016 |
Gay marriage trend may collapse like communism, claims Anglican Church in leaked document |
Latika Bourke, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 13-10-2016 |
Godliness and good order: Adelaide’s Registrar previews diocesan and electoral synods |
Keith Stephens, Adelaide Anglicans |
| 13-10-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's address at Westminster Abbey anti-slavery service |
Lambeth Palace text |
| 13-10-2016 |
UK report highlights weaknesses in anti-slavery efforts |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times text and images |
| 13-10-2016 |
Rise of the right hampers care for refugees, European bishops say |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 13-10-2016 |
Fresh setback for Asia Bibi as Pakistan Supreme Court appeal delayed |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 13-10-2016 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes Patriarch of Serbia to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 12-10-2016 |
Primate criticises Australian refugee policy |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 12-10-2016 |
Same-sex marriage: Anglican Church leaders accuse Sydney Archbishop of silencing supporters |
Julia Baird, ABC News |
| 12-10-2016 |
Same-sex marriage: Woman raised by lesbian parents supports plebiscite, wants children to have right to know biological parents |
Dan Conifer, ABC News video text and images |
| 12-10-2016 |
Australian Christian Lobby thanks ‘helpful’ Bill Shorten for same-sex marriage plebiscite veto |
Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald video and images |
| 12-10-2016 |
Diocese in Europe hosts consultation on refugee crisis |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 12-10-2016 |
Anglican Consultative Council chair sets out his vision for the Communion |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS |
| 11-10-2016 |
Australian episcopal duo: Anglican and Roman Catholic dialogue flourishes during Canterbury-Rome pilgrimage |
Christopher Prowse and John Parkes, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference media blog |
| 11-10-2016 |
CCA’s solidarity team observes plight of Pakistani Christians |
Christian Conference of Asia (Thailand/Hong Kong) |
| 11-10-2016 |
Former priest convicted of historic child abuse |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community |
| 11-10-2016 |
Action urged on urban renewal |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 11-10-2016 |
Anglicans at forefront of advocacy, care in global refugee crisis |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 11-10-2016 |
Migrant lives matter: US Presiding Bishop speaks at Rome refugee centre |
Episcopal News Service (US) video |
| 11-10-2016 |
Anglican Alliance consultation builds relationship in Middle East |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 11-10-2016 |
UK Abuse inquiry: Kiwi judge gets $NZ156,000 payout |
The New Zealand Herald video, text and images |
| 11-10-2016 |
Canadian Anglican to head Cambridge University from 2017 |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 10-10-2016 |
Church pushes out with Sydney: Archbishop Glenn Davies’ Presidential Address to Synod |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans text and image |
| 10-10-2016 |
Archbishop Herft steps down amid child abuse inquiry |
Sophie Morris, The West Australian |
| 10-10-2016 |
Roger Herft stands aside as Anglican Archbishop of Perth to focus on sex abuse royal commission |
ABC News |
| 10-10-2016 |
Global South Anglicans discuss ‘great human suffering’ and Anglican unity |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 10-10-2016 |
Episcopalians take stock of Hurricane Matthew’s damage |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 10-10-2016 |
Call for prayer and support for those affected by Hurricane Matthew |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 10-10-2016 |
Gay sex ‘offensive’ and contrary to God’s design, say Anglican leaders |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 10-10-2016 |
Anglicans Ablaze: Education and leadership key for discipleship |
Bellah Zulu, ACNS |
| 09-10-2016 |
Statement regarding Dr Keith Mascord |
Russell Powell, Diocese of Sydney media release |
| 08-10-2016 |
Anglican priest providing a safe haven for the LGBTI community in Perth |
Claire Moodie, ABC News |
| 08-10-2016 |
Chinese Communist Party readies crackdown on Christianity |
Matthew Carney, ‘Correspondents Report’, ABC News text and images |
| 08-10-2016 |
Prayer Book services to help dementia sufferers |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 07-10-2016 |
Dean delivers harsh rebuke to Church of England's ‘blandness’ in final sermon |
Church Times (UK) |
| 07-10-2016 |
Theresa May bids for working-class support at British Conservative conference as Christian Tory group challenges party |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 07-10-2016 |
BBC’s ‘Songs of Praise’ is first to go out to commercial tender |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times |
| 07-10-2016 |
US battens down the hatches as Haiti devastated by Hurricane Matthew |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 07-10-2016 |
Church leaders urge peace in Colombia |
Church Times text and images |
| 07-10-2016 |
Prayer urged after Colombians reject FARC peace agreement |
Gavin Drake, ACNS, with Clara Villatoro, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 07-10-2016 |
Irish PM tells Church of Ireland school pupils to ‘dream big dreams’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 06-10-2016 |
Onslaught on Aleppo is ‘demonic’, says Archbishop of Canterbury |
Julie Etchingham, ITV News (UK) video, text and images |
| 06-10-2016 |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: When my time comes, I want the option of an assisted death |
Desmond Tutu, The Washington Post (US) video and text |
| 06-10-2016 |
Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury pray for unity |
Gavin Drake, ACNS/ Vatican Television Centre (CTV) text and image |
| 06-10-2016 |
Archbishop Welby and Pope Francis share ‘signs of beautiful fraternity’ |
Philippa Hitchen, Church Times (UK) |
| 06-10-2016 |
Video: Archbishop Justin Welby preaches at ecumenical service in Rome |
ACNS/Episcopal News Service (US)/YouTube video |
| 06-10-2016 |
Video: Pope Francis and Archbishop Welby exchange gifts |
ACNS/ENS/YouTube video |
| 06-10-2016 |
On the brink of unity? Anglicans, Roman Catholics celebrate 50 years of dialogue and partnership |
Matthew Davies, Episcopal News Service (US) video, images and text |
| 06-10-2016 |
Young people at Anglicans Ablaze in Cape Town |
Bellah Zulu, ACNS text and images |
| 06-10-2016 |
Archbishop Justin Welby's address to Pope Francis |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 05-10-2016 |
Ethicist and Baptist pastor David Gushee on Christian anxieties about the US culture |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’ with Andrew West, ABC Radio National audio and text |
| 05-10-2016 |
Wangaratta’s Bishop John Parkes visits Canterbury and Rome and Anglican-Roman Catholic 50th anniversary celebrations |
Diocese of Wangaratta text and images |
| 05-10-2016 |
Common Declaration of Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin Welby |
Anglican Communion News Service/CTV text and images |
| 05-10-2016 |
1966: Common Declaration by Pope Paul VI and Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey |
ACNS text and image |
| 05-10-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon at service he led with Pope Francis at San Gregorio al Celio, Rome |
Lambeth Palace text |
| 05-10-2016 |
Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops ‘sent out’ for united mission |
Gavin Drake, ACNS/CTV text and images |
| 05-10-2016 |
Archbishop Welby gives Cross of Nails to Pope Francis as symbol of reconciliation partnership |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 05-10-2016 |
Anglican-Roman Catholic unity takes shape in Canterbury and Rome |
ACNS text and images |
| 05-10-2016 |
Pope Francis’ address at Vespers with the Archbishop of Canterbury commemorating the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey |
Vatican text and images |
| 05-10-2016 |
Video: US Presiding Bishop speaks from Rome |
ENS (US) video |
| 04-10-2016 |
South Sudanese bishop to advise Archbishop of Canterbury on Anglican Communion Affairs |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 04-10-2016 |
Kenyan Primate urges calm ahead of 2017 general elections |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 04-10-2016 |
Anglican, Catholic bishops seeking closer partnership in mission |
Philippa Hitchen speaks to Archbishop David Moxon, Vatican Radio audio and text |
| 04-10-2016 |
Lambeth Palace becomes 200th partner of the Community of the Cross of Nails promoting forgiveness and reconciliation |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 04-10-2016 |
Archbishop Welby sends good wishes to Jewish community for Rosh Hashanah |
Lambeth Palace text |
| 04-10-2016 |
Anglican Church will come around on blessing same-sex civil unions: Tutu-Van Furth |
Gadeeja Abbas, IOL News (South Africa) |
| 03-10-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury commissions new members of Community of St Anselm at Lambeth Palace |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 03-10-2016 |
Former Moore College Vice-Principal dies |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 03-10-2016 |
Southern Africa rejects blessings for same-sex marriages |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 03-10-2016 |
Why this Archbishop wept when his Church rejected gays |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 03-10-2016 |
Canada’s Primate responds to dissenting bishops over General Synod vote on same-sex marriage |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 03-10-2016 |
Global South Anglicans meet in Cairo |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 03-10-2016 |
Rome’s San Gregorio garden: a practical sign of ecumenical progress |
Philippa Hitchen, Vatican Radio audio, text and image |
| 02-10-2016 |
Bishops begin historic Canterbury-Rome ‘pilgrimage’ |
ACNS text and images |
| 02-10-2016 |
Anglican Church letting down LGBTI congregants: Tutu-van Furth |
eNews Channel Africa (South Africa) |
| 30-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Pope in Rome |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 30-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby commissions new members of Community of St Anselm |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 30-09-2016 |
Educate for a new, uncertain future, Archbishop of Canterbury tells schools |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 30-09-2016 |
Canadian bishops shift focus from same-sex marriage to mission |
André Forget and Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 30-09-2016 |
Interfaith climate activists are urged to unite for their cause |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 30-09-2016 |
Plea to media to show more responsibility in their representations of religion |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 30-09-2016 |
Collaborate as faiths can, divided British Labour urged |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 30-09-2016 |
Welby pays tribute to Shimon Peres and warns of anti-Semitism |
Church Times |
| 30-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury praises dedication of Mothers’ Union |
Hattie Williams, Church Times text and images |
| 29-09-2016 |
Anglican resources to strengthen the Bible in the life of the Church |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 28-09-2016 |
‘The next generation are being condemned to ignorance’: Bishop and scholar N T Wright says Christianity should be taught as history |
Paul Malik, The Courier (Dundee, Scotland) |
| 28-09-2016 |
Victoria Police charge men for serious religious vilification in state first |
ABC Radio ‘The World Today’ audio and text |
| 28-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury pays tribute to Israeli statesman Shimon Peres |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 28-09-2016 |
Is Trump losing the Religious Right? |
ABC Radio National, ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ with Andrew West, audio and text |
| 28-09-2016 |
Mass baptisms mark 70th anniversary of Church of South India |
Gavin Drake, ACNS/CSI/YouTube video, text and images |
| 28-09-2016 |
On God and heaven, Americans are all over the map |
Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service (US) |
| 27-09-2016 |
Don't treat us as an easy target: Private schools issue warning over funding |
Matthew Knott, The Sydney Morning Herald video, graphics and text |
| 27-09-2016 |
NSW Anglican priests Rod Bower and Keith Mascord on ABC TV’s ‘The Drum’ |
ABC TV ‘The Drum’ video |
| 27-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes northern Nigerian Muslim leader, the Emir of Kano, to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 27-09-2016 |
How decades of divorce helped erode religion |
Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post |
| 27-09-2016 |
Bishop raises $22,000 cycling across Saskatchewan |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 26-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury addresses Anglican secondary school heads |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 26-09-2016 |
Irish, English Anglican Primates welcome Belfast parades agreement |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 26-09-2016 |
Archbishops of Armagh, Canterbury welcome Northern Ireland parades agreement |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 26-09-2016 |
South African Archbishop calls for calm after violent university protests |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 26-09-2016 |
Standing Rock oil pipe protest may become ‘the new Selma’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and image/Episcopal News Service (US) video |
| 26-09-2016 |
‘We must stand together against anti-Semitism,’ says Archbishop of Canterbury |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 26-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby preaches at Mothers' Union 140th anniversary service at Winchester Cathedral |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 25-09-2016 |
Moore College to lead Reformation celebrations in Sydney |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 24-09-2016 |
When Mosul is freed, Christians may face a new crisis |
World Watch Monitor (UK) |
| 23-09-2016 |
NZ Churches take anti-euthanasia campaign to Parliament |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 23-09-2016 |
Assisted suicide is no answer, NZ InterChurch Bioethics Council says |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 23-09-2016 |
Sun provides night-time light to Anglican-run clinic in Solomon Islands |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 23-09-2016 |
Church of England schools can help shape ‘hopeful’ society, says Archbishop of Canterbury |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 23-09-2016 |
Cathedral statistics 2015 show continued growth |
Church of England media release |
| 23-09-2016 |
Russia and US exchange barbs as Syrian children die in Aleppo onslaught |
Gerald Butt and Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 23-09-2016 |
Welby: Don’t count God’s wealth in Monopoly money |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 23-09-2016 |
UN global agreement on migration agreed |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 23-09-2016 |
UK Churches march and join refugee scheme |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 23-09-2016 |
Young care-leavers ‘affected most by benefit sanctions’, UK’s Children’s Society says |
Hattie Williams and Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 23-09-2016 |
Declining figures for Church in Wales noted with ‘a heavy heart’ |
Gavin Drake, Church Times |
| 23-09-2016 |
Wales’ Archbishop Morgan receives farewell tributes |
Gavin Drake and Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 23-09-2016 |
Vocations mountain still to be climbed |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 23-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s XI wins interfaith triangular cricket series at Edgbaston in nail-biting style |
Stephen Fay, Church Times text and images |
| 23-09-2016 |
New ‘Anglican’ mission for conservative Christians launches in England |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 23-09-2016 |
Mothers’ Union ‘simply the best’, says Archbishop Welby |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS |
| 22-09-2016 |
Seafarers mission comes to aid of Hanjin crew members |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-09-2016 |
Bishops begin journey towards Eco Diocese status |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-09-2016 |
Strong welcome for UN refugee agreement – but action must follow |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 22-09-2016 |
Scientists finally read the oldest biblical text ever found |
Andrew Griffin, The Independent (UK)/Associated Press |
| 21-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby, Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew pray for peace |
Gavin Drake, ACNS/Vatican Radio/CTV video, images and text |
| 21-09-2016 |
Mothers’ Union returns home for 140th anniversary celebrations |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-09-2016 |
C of E Bishops’ Reflection Group: A joint statement from the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement and Changing Attitude |
LGCM (UK) media release |
| 20-09-2016 |
Canberra-Goulburn synod adopts new process for electing diocesan bishop |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community |
| 20-09-2016 |
Same-sex threats are proof plebiscite is needed: Coalition MP Warren Entsch |
David Crowe, The Australian |
| 20-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury prays for peace with Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew in Assisi |
Lambeth Palace/Vatican Radio/CTV video, image and text |
| 20-09-2016 |
Church of England needs 50 per cent increase in ordinands |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-09-2016 |
C of E seeks more black and minority ethnic clergy |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 20-09-2016 |
Race to save a much-loved British endangered species (the local vicar) |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 20-09-2016 |
Diocese of Toronto elects first openly gay bishop |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 20-09-2016 |
WCC and Roman Catholics to focus on peacebuilding and migrants |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-09-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop steps up support for Sioux over pipeline protest |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-09-2016 |
‘Radicalised Christianity’: Outspoken priest Father Rod Bower slams Pauline Hanson |
Broede Carmody, The Age |
| 19-09-2016 |
UN hears of Anglicans’ refugee and migrant experience |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 19-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Central Africa writes to Ban Ki-moon on refugees |
Lambeth Palace media release and text |
| 19-09-2016 |
Being Christ’s Body: Canberra and Goulburn diocese offers resource on same-sex relationships |
Stephen Pickard, Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community |
| 19-09-2016 |
C of E names sexuality reflection group members |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-09-2016 |
Anglicans divided over new bishops group on homosexuality |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 19-09-2016 |
Re-hospitalised Archbishop Desmond Tutu thanks well-wishers |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-09-2016 |
Churches unite with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Pentecost prayer initiative |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 18-09-2016 |
GAFCON UK Statement following the appointment of a ‘Bishops' Reflection Group’ on homosexuality |
GAFCON UK media release |
| 18-09-2016 |
Church liberals’ anger over ‘traditionalist dominated’ bishops’ gay marriage panel |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 18-09-2016 |
Church homosexuality talks ‘to remain private’ |
BBC News |
| 17-09-2016 |
Christian ‘no’ campaign event forced to fold |
Sky News Australia |
| 17-09-2016 |
Church apology for orphanage abuse |
Kristin Edge, The Northern Advocate (NZ) |
| 17-09-2016 |
Church of Ireland ‘turning blind eye’ to clergy flouting gay rules |
News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
| 16-09-2016 |
English bishops hold private talks on sexuality |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 16-09-2016 |
Anglican priest is world’s first patient of robotic eye surgery |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 16-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes Nigeria’s former head of state to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 16-09-2016 |
Millions ‘acutely undernourished’ as Yemen faces humanitarian crisis |
Gerald Butt, Church Times (UK) |
| 16-09-2016 |
Cautious optimism for Syria's temporary ceasefire |
Gerald Butt, Church Times |
| 16-09-2016 |
Religious leaders plead for ‘humane’ policy for refugees |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 16-09-2016 |
WCC set to observe World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 16-09-2016 |
Batting display against Vatican XI brings cup back to Canterbury |
Bill Day, Church Times images and text |
| 16-09-2016 |
UK Education Green Paper proposes selection by faith and ability |
Margaret Holness, Church Times |
| 16-09-2016 |
Church of England priest is guinea pig for pioneering optical surgery |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times |
| 15-09-2016 |
Religion in US ‘worth more than Google and Apple combined’ |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 15-09-2016 |
Anglican Bishop of Ballarat Garry Weatherill declares support for same-sex marriage, opposes plebiscite |
Sue Peacock, ABC News |
| 15-09-2016 |
CofE College of Bishops announces group to reflect on sexuality |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 15-09-2016 |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu discharged from hospital |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 15-09-2016 |
Call for Anglican Consultative Council members to step up Asia Bibi campaign |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS |
| 15-09-2016 |
Historic joint meeting hears of effort to change US Episcopal Church’s culture |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 15-09-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on loving, liberating, and life-giving |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs video and transcript |
| 15-09-2016 |
Ugandan Anglican assembly adopts 10-year plan, condemns land-grabbing ‘epidemic’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 15-09-2016 |
Archbishop Ntagali cautions against grabbing church land |
NTV Uganda video and text |
| 15-09-2016 |
Constable's Salisbury Cathedral masterpiece to be shown in city that inspired him |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 14-09-2016 |
What’s US religion worth? $1.2 trillion, says one demographer |
Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service (US) video and text |
| 14-09-2016 |
International focus on refugees, asylum seekers and migrants |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 14-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes UK Holocaust memorial design competition |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 14-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s XI beat Pope Francis’ cricket team |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-09-2016 |
‘Biblical stories can reveal a new understanding of same-sex relationships’: Archbishop of Wales |
Barry Morgan, Church in Wales transcript |
| 14-09-2016 |
‘In love’: Canadian Primate’s plea to his divided Church |
Fred Hiltz, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 14-09-2016 |
Archbishop comes to defence of South Africa’s finance minister |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 13-09-2016 |
Australia's Anglican hierarchy divided over marriage equality plebiscite |
Paul Karp, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-09-2016 |
Dean of Melbourne highlights opportunities and challenges for St Paul’s Cathedral at Metro Rail Inquiry |
St Paul’s Cathedral media release |
| 13-09-2016 |
Building spiritual homes: Bishop Stuart Robinson’s Presidential Address to his Synod |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community media release and transcript |
| 13-09-2016 |
Canterbury finds its new archdeacon on the other side of the world |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 13-09-2016 |
Church in Wales invests in new safeguarding strategy |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 13-09-2016 |
Working group reviews relations between WCC and Roman Catholics |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 12-09-2016 |
Faith leaders unite in call for UK action on refugees |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 12-09-2016 |
Refugee crisis: UK faith leaders' open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May |
Interfaith Refugee Initiative (UK) text |
| 12-09-2016 |
Prayer changes everything – Archbishop of Canterbury looks ahead to Thy Kingdom Come 2017 |
Lambeth Palace/Church Times (UK) text |
| 12-09-2016 |
Anglicans host Catholics for third Vatican-Church of England cricket match |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 12-09-2016 |
How church choirs could hold secret to reinventing Islam as ‘English’ faith |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 12-09-2016 |
Large crowds witness installation of new Archbishop of Congo |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 11-09-2016 |
Same-sex marriage: Turnbull pledged to fund both sides of plebiscite debate, Archbishop Davies says |
Francis Keany, ABC News |
| 11-09-2016 |
Bells toll for 9/11 |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans text and images |
| 10-09-2016 |
Primate encourages Bathurst Synod: Recovery is possible |
Diocese of Bathurst transcript |
| 10-09-2016 |
Bathurst Synod extends Bishop Palmer’s term to 2020 |
Diocese of Bathurst media release |
| 09-09-2016 |
Anglican Church says it will accept results of marriage equality plebiscite |
Paul Karp, The Guardian Australia |
| 09-09-2016 |
Anglicans ‘can accept gay marriage vote’ |
SBS/Australian Associated Press |
| 09-09-2016 |
Pro-gay letters sent to Church of England College of Bishops |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 09-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby joins other campaigners seeking immediate entry for Calais children |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 09-09-2016 |
Parishioners give more — but not enough to cancel out costs |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 09-09-2016 |
British Labour leadership contenders told their party ‘flailing’ on faith |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 09-09-2016 |
Primate welcomes same-sex marriage plebiscite but warns against ‘harsh or vilifying’ debate |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 09-09-2016 |
Religious shift on same-sex marriage: Anglicans should vote ‘according to conscience’ |
Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald video and text |
| 09-09-2016 |
The Royal Commission has heard a litany of ‘no recollections’ during testimony at Newcastle |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 09-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s worldwide invitation: ‘Let’s get together in calling out to God in prayer’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS video and text |
| 09-09-2016 |
Cathedral working group investigating how to restore historic Christchurch building |
Charlie Gates, stuff.co.nz (NZ) |
| 09-09-2016 |
Candlelit service for Davao night market bomb victims |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and images |
| 09-09-2016 |
Archbishop Welby sends message on 25th anniversary of Meissen Agreement on reconciliation between Church of England and German churches |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 08-09-2016 |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu undergoes surgery |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 08-09-2016 |
Anglican Communion Task Group holds first meeting to ‘maintain conversation’ |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS |
| 08-09-2016 |
Canterbury’s man in Rome, Archbishop Sir David Moxon, honoured in homeland NZ |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 08-09-2016 |
Polish President asks English Roman Catholic and Anglican leaders to help protect migrants in Brexit aftermath |
Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service/The Catholic Register (Canada) |
| 07-09-2016 |
Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Perth |
Roger Herft, Archbishop of Perth |
| 07-09-2016 |
Former PM John Howard to attend 9/11 commemorative service in Sydney |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 07-09-2016 |
Services to mark 15th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 07-09-2016 |
Newcastle Cathedral's governing parish council has been sacked after evidence of ‘coordinated opposition’ to Bishop Greg Thompson |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 07-09-2016 |
Further welcome for Sino-US movement on climate change |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 06-09-2016 |
Belfast’s St Anne’s Cathedral to screen 100-year-old Great War film |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 05-09-2016 |
Church leaders welcome US-Sino action on climate change |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 05-09-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury expresses sadness at death of Bishop David Jenkins |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 05-09-2016 |
Bishop David Jenkins dies, aged 91 |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 05-09-2016 |
David Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham, dies aged 91 |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 05-09-2016 |
Anglican Communion Secretary-General clarifies view after gay English bishop ‘outed’ |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS |
| 05-09-2016 |
Bishop of Grantham: ‘I hope to be a standard-bearer as a gay man’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 05-09-2016 |
‘Business as usual’ for Bishop of Grantham after gay declaration |
Nicola Slawson, The Guardian Australia |
| 05-09-2016 |
Philippines bishop condemns night market bomb terror |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 05-09-2016 |
Phyllis Schlafly, anti-feminist and early supporter of the religious right, dies at 92 |
Bill Trott, Religion News Service (US) |
| 04-09-2016 |
‘Unbelieving’ former Durham bishop Dr David Jenkins dies |
BBC News |
| 04-09-2016 |
Former Primate Archbishop Wabukala right man to head Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, says Archbishop Ole Sapit |
Pius Maundu, Daily Nation (Kenya)/allafrica.com |
| 03-09-2016 |
Bishop of Grantham first Church of England bishop to declare he is in gay relationship |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 03-09-2016 |
Gay bishop: Appointment of Nicholas Chamberlain 'major error', says GAFCON |
BBC News videos, images and text |
| 03-09-2016 |
Conservative Anglican vicar criticises church leaders for appointing gay bishop |
BBC World Service ‘Newshour’ audio (UK) |
| 03-09-2016 |
Vicar applies for booze licence for church claiming 'Jesus turned water into wine for a reason' |
The Telegraph (UK) text and images |
| 02-09-2016 |
Sydney’s Youthworks College on the move to Moore |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 02-09-2016 |
Churches flee from fossil fuels as Creationtide begins |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 31-08-2016 |
Disgust with CofE’s ‘slide’ on agenda for ‘shadow synod’ meeting |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 30-08-2016 |
Archbishop Roger Herft tells child abuse royal commission he ‘let down’ victims |
David Marchese, ABC News |
| 30-08-2016 |
Bill Shorten confronted by Anglican rector over gay marriage comments |
Anna Henderson, Stephanie Anderson and Matthew Doran, ABC News video and text |
| 30-08-2016 |
Priest confronts Opposition Leader Bill Shorten over same-sex marriage |
Tom McIlroy, The Sydney Morning Herald images and text/ABC video |
| 29-08-2016 |
Archbishop Roger Herft thought ‘abuser’ had repented, royal commission into child sex abuse hears |
The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 29-08-2016 |
Archbishop Herft denies protecting defrocked priest at child sexual abuse royal commission |
David Marchese, ABC News |
| 29-08-2016 |
Abuse royal commission: Archbishop Roger Herft told about Graeme Lawrence |
Dan Box, The Australian |
| 28-08-2016 |
Church of England parishes consider first step to break away over sexuality |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 28-08-2016 |
John Swinton's ‘Dementia: Living in the Memories of God’ wins Michael Ramsey Prize |
Lambeth Palace text and images |
| 27-08-2016 |
Archbishop of Sydney honoured at US seminary where he studied |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 24-08-2016 |
Archbishop Welby visits children’s hospice in Canterbury diocese |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 23-08-2016 |
Adelaide Archbishop Jeffrey Driver's farewell sermon |
Adelaide Anglicans transcript and images |
| 23-08-2016 |
Drones deployed to protect ancient churches in England |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 23-08-2016 |
Maori Archbishop to retire, aged 92, in March 2017 |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 23-08-2016 |
Archbishop of Wales to step down in January |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-08-2016 |
Cathedral welcomes new Metro, calls for station to be named ‘St Paul’s Cathedral’ |
St Paul’s Cathedral media release |
| 22-08-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop offers election message, encourages voting as ‘a Christian obligation’ |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/Episcopal News Service (US) video and text |
| 22-08-2016 |
Gay clergy to appeal to Anglican bishops for equality |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 22-08-2016 |
Could Tutu’s daughter return to ministry after Church same-sex vote? |
Mark Woods, Christian Today |
| 22-08-2016 |
I will be delighted to serve as a minister again: Mpho Tutu |
Gadeeja Abbas, IOL News (South Africa) |
| 22-08-2016 |
Bishop Selwyn Chapel is major step towards consecration of Auckland cathedral |
Jayson Rhodes, ACNS |
| 22-08-2016 |
Church-sponsored play about a refugee in line for awards |
Gavin Drake, ACNS video and text |
| 22-08-2016 |
Bishop of Harare speaks on domestic and political violence |
Precious Shumba, The Zimbabwean: A Voice for the Voiceless |
| 22-08-2016 |
Formalities and celebrations as Burundi’s new Archbishop installed |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and images |
| 21-08-2016 |
City Square shut down, fears for Cathedral under Melbourne Metro rail tunnel drilling plans |
Tom Minear, Herald Sun |
| 21-08-2016 |
Gay Anglican clergy to defy Church's official stance on same-sex marriage |
Nicola Slawson, The Guardian Australia |
| 19-08-2016 |
South Sudanese Christians unite in prayer |
Kenyi Dube, ACNS |
| 19-08-2016 |
Anglicans protest against Myanmar’s Myitsone Dam |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-08-2016 |
Brazil’s Anglicans protest against destruction of indigenous land |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 18-08-2016 |
Aboriginal Anglicans welcome youth detention abuse review |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 18-08-2016 |
Media challenged over portrayal of refugees |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-08-2016 |
‘Pauline, how about lunch?’: Pro-Muslim church reaches out to One Nation |
Nicole Hasham, The Sydney Morning Herald video, text and images |
| 17-08-2016 |
Love Makes a Way protesters rally outside Bill Shorten's Melbourne office |
Melissa Davey, The Guardian Australia |
| 17-08-2016 |
Southern African synod to consider blessing same-sex civil unions |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-08-2016 |
Ecumenical focus on prayer for creation |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text, video and images |
| 16-08-2016 |
Australian churches renew call to end refugee detention on Nauru |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-08-2016 |
Party for Freedom's Nick Folkes on storming Gosford Anglican Church |
‘RN Breakfast’, ABC Radio National audio, with Fran Kelly |
| 16-08-2016 |
‘The bishop made clear to me that there would be consequences.’ Meet Clive Larsen, the reverend who left the church to marry his gay lover |
India Sturgis, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 16-08-2016 |
Faith groups call for land rights and equity |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 15-08-2016 |
Hundreds of protesters target Turnbull and other MPs over Nauru files |
Elle Hunt, The Guardian Australia images and text |
| 15-08-2016 |
Royal Commission chair expresses concern about ‘inconsistent’ child protection systems |
Thomas Oriti, ‘The World Today’, ABC radio audio |
| 15-08-2016 |
Justice Peter McClellan’s address to the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies National Conference in Sydney |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse transcript |
| 15-08-2016 |
Pauline Hanson says anti-Islam group's Gosford Anglican Church stunt 'counterproductive' |
Stephanie Anderson and Danuta Kozaki, ABC News |
| 15-08-2016 |
Party for Freedom members interrupt church service by promoting anti-Islamic message |
Olivia Lambert, news.com.au video, text and images |
| 15-08-2016 |
Anti-Islam group ‘Party for Freedom’ disrupts Sunday service in ‘racist stunt’ at Gosford's Anglican church |
Danuta Kozaki, ABC News |
| 15-08-2016 |
‘Wake up, Aussies’: Far-right Pauline Hanson supporters dressed as Muslims storm church |
Nicole Hasham, The Sydney Morning Herald video, images and text |
| 15-08-2016 |
Far-right protesters interrupt Anglican service clothed in mock Islamic dress |
Paul Karp, The Guardian Australia text and images |
| 14-08-2016 |
Top cleric says Church of England risks becoming a ‘suburban sect’ |
Harriet Sherwood, The Observer (UK) |
| 12-08-2016 |
Anglican Archbishop of Perth admits he knew of abuse in Newcastle diocese |
‘7.30’, ABC TV video and transcript |
| 12-08-2016 |
Child sex abuse royal commission: Archbishop Herft would not report allegations if victim's name not known |
Dan Cox, ABC News |
| 12-08-2016 |
Herft acknowledges child sex assault process was inadequate |
Ian Kirkwood, The Newcastle Herald |
| 12-08-2016 |
Ensuring the church is a place safe for all: Archbishop of Canterbury writes for ‘Crucible’ journal |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 12-08-2016 |
Archbishop Welby: Abuse victims must be heard |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 12-08-2016 |
Welby speaks of abuse victims’ betrayal |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 12-08-2016 |
Generous response to Tasmanian Anglican flood appeal |
Tasmanian Anglican |
| 12-08-2016 |
Christian campaigners get behind Marshall Islanders' case against UK nuclear program |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 12-08-2016 |
Displaced Iraqis' way home ‘blocked by many obstacles’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 12-08-2016 |
Charity presses leaders on school for Syrians |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 12-08-2016 |
Chaplain impressed by resilience as fires ravage Madeira |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 11-08-2016 |
Australian Primate demands action after Nauru detention files leak |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 11-08-2016 |
Child sex abuse royal commission: Newcastle Anglican church director ‘harassed, had home attacked’ |
Dan Cox, ABC News |
| 11-08-2016 |
Anglican Church tried to change rules to keep child sex abuse findings quiet, inquiry told |
Australian Associated Press/The Guardian Australia |
| 11-08-2016 |
Brazil’s Anglican Primate welcomes Olympic sportspeople but criticises organisers |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 11-08-2016 |
Professor succeeds NZ judge as head of UK child abuse inquiry |
Gavin Drake, Church Times (UK) |
| 10-08-2016 |
Defrocked Dean of Newcastle abused me as a child, royal commission hears |
Dan Cox, ABC News |
| 10-08-2016 |
Bishop cried at prospect of defrocking senior cleric over abuse, inquiry told |
Australian Associated Press/The Guardian Australia |
| 10-08-2016 |
Removalist uncovered child pornography at priest's Newcastle home, royal commission hears |
Dan Cox, ABC News |
| 10-08-2016 |
Inquiry hears of priests’ ‘sickening’ porn |
Annette Blackwell, AAP/Yahoo7 |
| 10-08-2016 |
The Nauru files: 2000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention |
Paul Farrell, Nick Evershed and Helen Davidson, The Guardian Australia |
| 10-08-2016 |
A short history of Nauru, Australia’s dumping ground for refugees |
Ben Doherty, The Guardian Australia text and images |
| 10-08-2016 |
Heritage WA church inspires tears and dreams |
Doug Green, Domain images and text |
| 10-08-2016 |
Gunmen attack bishop’s house in Juba |
Kenyi Frazer, ACNS |
| 10-08-2016 |
Archbishops Chama and Ntagali elected to head Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 09-08-2016 |
Cathedral deans express grief over clergy-led abuse |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 09-08-2016 |
Call for inquiry into forced adoptions in NZ |
Jesse Mulligan, Radio New Zealand audio, text and image |
| 09-08-2016 |
African Churches urged not to be distracted by Western progressives |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 08-08-2016 |
Newcastle lawyer did not tell police about abuse allegations against priests, royal commission hears |
Dan Cox, ABC News |
| 08-08-2016 |
Anglican leaders pay tribute to Roman Catholic bishop who played iconic role in Northern Ireland Troubles |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 08-08-2016 |
Rwandan Anglicans celebrate role of mothers in rebuilding country |
World Council of Churches/ACNS |
| 08-08-2016 |
Colombia seeks peace after 50 years of war |
Clara Villatoro, Episcopal News Service (US)/ACNS |
| 07-08-2016 |
Gay, celibate and Christian: US evangelical in Melbourne for same-sex talks |
Farrah Tomazin, The Sunday Age |
| 05-08-2016 |
Australian Primate welcomes investigation into youth detention |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 05-08-2016 |
Unholy war over Census question on religion |
Charis Chang, news.com.au video, text and images |
| 05-08-2016 |
NZ inquiry call into forced adoptions |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 05-08-2016 |
Olympic thrills ‘beneficial but costly’ for Brazil |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 04-08-2016 |
Archbishop’s role reviewed by Church in Wales |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 02-08-2016 |
Royal Commission’s public hearing into the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse website, including background information and transcripts |
| 02-08-2016 |
Anglican priest's godson weeps as he tells inquiry of rape by gang of men |
AAP/The Guardian Australia |
| 02-08-2016 |
Military chaplains in fight against forces’ suicides |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 30-07-2016 |
Bonded by faith: Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Force visits US counterparts in Middle East |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 28-07-2016 |
Treasure trove of history goes on display at Melbourne’s Mission to Seafarers |
Liz Hobday, ABC News images and text |
| 27-07-2016 |
Valley of the damned: The cruel spot two different churches made ‘the epicentre of organised paedophilia’ |
Candace Sutton, news.com.au |
| 27-07-2016 |
Melbourne’s historic Mission to Seafarers hosts major exhibition |
John Masanauskas, Herald Sun |
| 27-07-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury announces new Adviser for Reconciliation |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 27-07-2016 |
Churches Together in England Presidents on France church attack |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 26-07-2016 |
Five Church of England bishops accused of failing to act on rape allegations |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 26-07-2016 |
British Government to fund security at places of worship |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 26-07-2016 |
France at war with Daesh as Catholic priest murdered |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 26-07-2016 |
Rabbi in Residence for US cathedral |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 26-07-2016 |
Pastoral Letter from Bishop Stuart Robinson on sexual abuse |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community transcript |
| 25-07-2016 |
Outspoken Gosford priest says Pauline Hanson ‘only creates more fear’ |
Matt Taylor, Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate (NSW) |
| 25-07-2016 |
Bishops respond to deadly attacks in Germany |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 25-07-2016 |
Nigeria’s Primate calls on persecuted Christians to remain faithful |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-07-2016 |
Royal Commission will hold Hunter Catholic public hearing after historic Anglican hearing from 2 August |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 22-07-2016 |
Dunedin Anglicans urged to fund bishop |
David Loughrey, Otago Daily Times (NZ) |
| 22-07-2016 |
Bishop in Europe calls for prayers in wake of Nice attack |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 22-07-2016 |
Syrian family welcomed to new home at Lambeth Palace |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 22-07-2016 |
Chorus of disapproval from churches follows Trident vote in UK Parliament |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 22-07-2016 |
‘Draconian’ effect for Christians of Russian anti-terrorism laws |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 22-07-2016 |
PokéStops allow churches to catch gamers |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 22-07-2016 |
Cumbrian church is site of Britain’s first African settlement |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-07-2016 |
Working group costs NZ taxpayers thousands while Christ Church Cathedral decays |
Liz McDonald, The Press (Christchurch, NZ) |
| 22-07-2016 |
United Society reclaims familiar USPG name |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-07-2016 |
Archbishop Philip Freier expresses solidarity with Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald |
| 21-07-2016 |
From the Administrator of the Diocese of Perth, re Diocese of Newcastle |
Braden Short, Diocese of Perth transcript |
| 21-07-2016 |
Anglican Archbishop of Perth Roger Herft allegedly failed to report paedophile Peter Rushton to police |
Anne Connolly, ABC TV ‘7.30’ |
| 21-07-2016 |
No sanctuary: Anglican Archbishop of Perth allegedly failed to report paedophile |
Anne Connolly, ABC TV '7.30' video and transcript |
| 21-07-2016 |
Army praises Anglican diocese for refugee crisis mobilisation |
ACNS |
| 21-07-2016 |
Boston’s Episcopal Divinity School to stop granting degrees in June 2017 |
Episcopal Divinity School media release/Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 21-07-2016 |
US Episcopal Church celebrates former Presiding Bishop Edmond Bishop Browning’s life, bids him farewell |
Leslie Davis, Episcopal Diocese of Oregon/ENS text and images |
| 21-07-2016 |
British Quaker MP proposes extending conscientious objection to paying taxes for war |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 20-07-2016 |
Preyed upon: Whistleblowers reveal extent of paedophile ring inside the Newcastle Anglican Church |
Anne Connolly, ABC TV ‘7.30’ video and transcript |
| 20-07-2016 |
Paedophile ring inside Newcastle Anglican Church exposed by whistleblowers |
Anne Connolly, ABC TV ‘7.30’ |
| 20-07-2016 |
Barnaby Joyce rejects Pauline Hanson's policies, saying every religion has ratbags |
Gabrielle Chan, The Guardian Australia |
| 20-07-2016 |
Churches respond to continuing violence in South Sudan |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 20-07-2016 |
Anglican Alliance helps to co-ordinate global response to South Sudan violence |
ACNS |
| 20-07-2016 |
Divisions deepen in Church of England as conservatives express lack of confidence in gay marriage talks |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 20-07-2016 |
32 General Synod delegates publicly express ‘lack of confidence’ in CofE Shared Conversations process |
Anglican Mainstream (UK) text |
| 19-07-2016 |
Pokemon Go: Churches encouraged to welcome visiting players |
BBC News |
| 19-07-2016 |
West Wollongong's St Mark's Anglican Church tempts Pokemon Go crowd with lures and hot chips |
Angela Thompson, Illawarra Mercury (NSW) |
| 19-07-2016 |
Bishop of London announces retirement in 2017 |
Diocese of London media release |
| 19-07-2016 |
Archbishop Welby welcomes refugee community sponsorship scheme |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 19-07-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury takes in Syrian refugee family |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 19-07-2016 |
Anglican Centre in Rome begins 50th anniversary celebrations |
‘Centro’, Anglican Centre in Rome biannual newsletter |
| 19-07-2016 |
Indian Christians step up caste protests |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-07-2016 |
Faith-based groups meet to plan approach at UN Aids conference |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-07-2016 |
Faith at AIDS 2016 |
World Council of Churches stories and images |
| 19-07-2016 |
Anglican Church ‘erred grievously’ in gay marriage vote, say northern Canadian bishops |
Elyse Skura, CBC News (Canada) |
| 19-07-2016 |
Anglican bishop for Prince Edward Island withholds permission for same-sex marriage for now |
Laura Chapin, CBC News |
| 19-07-2016 |
Have the clerics abandoned Mugabe? |
New Zimbabwe (UK) |
| 19-07-2016 |
We need your knowledge on Indigenous advocacy: Brazilian Primate |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 19-07-2016 |
‘We live in Paradise, but it is very fragile,’ says Archbishop of West Indies |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 18-07-2016 |
‘This is what I'm meant to be doing’: The vicar welcoming Muslims to church |
Nazia Parveen, The Guardian Australia video, text and images |
| 18-07-2016 |
Canadian Primate acknowledges ‘deep divisions’ over same-sex marriage |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 18-07-2016 |
Indigenous bishop’s votes at Canada’s General Synod not recorded due to error |
Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 18-07-2016 |
NZ Anglicans won't comment on Christ Church Cathedral until December |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ) video and text |
| 17-07-2016 |
Planters on the ground as Sydney Anglicans make plans for fastest-growing new suburbs |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 15-07-2016 |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglicans review how they choose their bishop |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community media release |
| 15-07-2016 |
Churches urge new British PM Theresa May to keep commitments on aid, climate |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 15-07-2016 |
Girls in CofE children's home were drugged and abused, review finds |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 15-07-2016 |
Church of England funds to do well out of Brexit |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 15-07-2016 |
Europe Bishop writes to Convocation following Nice attacks |
Episcopal News Service (US) transcript |
| 15-07-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Curry asks for prayers for Nice |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/Episcopal News Service (US) video |
| 15-07-2016 |
Canada’s Primate says he can’t stop bishops from allowing same-sex marriages |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 15-07-2016 |
Seven bishops ‘publicly dissent’ from same-sex marriage vote |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal |
| 15-07-2016 |
In the wake of same-sex marriage vote, some bishops fret for unity of Church |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal |
| 15-07-2016 |
Bishop asks world for prayers as Angola economy slumps |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS |
| 14-07-2016 |
Gambling reform push: Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon join the Revd Tim Costello to push for $1 maximum pokie bets |
Richard Willingham and Tom McIlroy, The Sydney Morning Herald video, text and images |
| 14-07-2016 |
Vicar’s daughter in No.10 ‘will need our prayers’ |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 14-07-2016 |
International Anglican consultation concludes with renewed climate justice commitment |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-07-2016 |
Canada’s Primate calls for humility, ‘patience’ after marriage vote |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 14-07-2016 |
The vote on same-sex marriage: What went wrong? |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 14-07-2016 |
Anglican Church in Canada will weather divide on same-sex marriage, officials say |
Nicole Ireland, CBC News (Canada) |
| 14-07-2016 |
Gay Anglican priest celebrates victory in battle for same-sex weddings |
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun (Canada) |
| 14-07-2016 |
‘Church Times’ publishes 8000th edition |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-07-2016 |
Edmonton Anglican bishop ecstatic after Church votes in favour of same-sex marriage |
Mack Lamoureux, CBC News (Canada) video, text and images |
| 13-07-2016 |
Vicar’s daughter brings quiet Anglican faith to Prime Minister’s post |
Austen Ivereigh, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse (US) |
| 13-07-2016 |
Church of England releases prayer for Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May and her Government |
Church of England media release |
| 13-07-2016 |
CofE concludes ‘shared conversations’ on human sexuality |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 13-07-2016 |
House of Lords: Archbishop of Canterbury asks question on South Sudan |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 13-07-2016 |
Bishop of Durham responds to group critical of Church’s abuse findings against wartime Bishop George Bell |
Church of England transcript |
| 13-07-2016 |
South Indian diocese opens new peace centre on ‘ever sensitive’ border |
ACNS |
| 12-07-2016 |
Bush Brothers celebrate a century of Anglican faith in Charleville |
Andrew Messenger, Chinchilla News (Qld) |
| 12-07-2016 |
Cathedral provides sanctuary as thousands flee Juba violence |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 12-07-2016 |
CofE General Synod members thanked for staying on to talk about their differences |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 12-07-2016 |
Canadian Church approves same-sex marriage after voting fiasco |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 12-07-2016 |
Voting error reveals Anglican same-sex marriage motion passed after all |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 12-07-2016 |
Anglicans to allow same-sex marriage after vote recount |
CBC News video/The Canadian Press text |
| 12-07-2016 |
Canadian Anglicans reject same-sex marriage by one vote |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 12-07-2016 |
Relief, despair as same-sex marriage motion fails |
Tali Folkins and Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal |
| 12-07-2016 |
Two Canadian dioceses to offer same-sex marriages, another to consider doing so after General Synod vote |
Tali Folkins and Marites Sison, Anglican Journal |
| 12-07-2016 |
Canada’s Anglican General Synod reaffirms ‘integrity and sanctity of same-sex relationships’ |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 11-07-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for end to violence in South Sudan |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 11-07-2016 |
Sudan’s Christians face ‘ethnic cleansing’ |
World Watch Monitor (UK) |
| 11-07-2016 |
‘Jesus doesn’t allow us the option of self-righteousness’: US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 11-07-2016 |
US is in ‘a time of great pain and turmoil’, says Bishop Curry |
Gavin Drake, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 11-07-2016 |
Dallas Sunday services invoke love, grace and forgiveness |
Kimberly Durnan, Episcopal Diocese of Dallas/Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 11-07-2016 |
US Episcopal Church’s 24th Presiding Bishop Edmond Lee Browning dies, 87 |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/ENS text and images |
| 11-07-2016 |
Church of England failed to pass Bishop Peter Ball abuse evidence to police |
BBC News |
| 11-07-2016 |
Anglican Communion secretary-general addresses Canadian synod |
ACNS transcript |
| 11-07-2016 |
Inuit leader tells Canadian Anglicans about ‘drastic’ effect of climate change in the Arctic |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 11-07-2016 |
Primate decries ‘bullying’, pleads for ‘holy manners’ in same-sex marriage talks |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal |
| 11-07-2016 |
Canada’s commission on doctrine of discovery asks for more time to complete work |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 11-07-2016 |
Witnessing the Gospel in a time of crisis: Brazil’s Anglican leader speaks about inequality, governance and the Olympics |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal |
| 11-07-2016 |
Church of England is bidding to open scores of free schools |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 11-07-2016 |
Bishop Masimango Katanda elected Archbishop of Congo |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 10-07-2016 |
Desmond Tutu honoured for 40 years of service |
South African Broadcasting Corporation video and text |
| 10-07-2016 |
CofE hardliners to boycott synod talks on same-sex relationships |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 10-07-2016 |
Church of England plans to open 125 faith schools using UK Government’s free schools program in next four years |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) text, video and image |
| 10-07-2016 |
Get involved in networks of the Anglican Communion, Canada’s Anglicans urged |
Ben Graves, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 10-07-2016 |
Indigenous Anglicans in Canada outline features of Indigenous ‘confederacy’ |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 10-07-2016 |
Canada’s General Synod ponders shape of future Indigenous Church |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal |
| 10-07-2016 |
Indigenous Eucharist celebrated at Canadian General Synod |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 10-07-2016 |
Ancient Philistine cemetery discovered in Israel could solve one of the Bible’s biggest mysteries |
Andrew Griffin, The Independent (UK) and agencies text and images |
| 09-07-2016 |
Brexit vote is not just a cry of ‘incoherent rage’, says Church of England vicar |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 09-07-2016 |
‘Lasses' jobs’ replacing industry led to Brexit vote, says clergyman |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 09-07-2016 |
In Dallas, thousands seek comfort in prayerful response to shootings |
Kimberly Durnan, Episcopal Diocese of Dallas/ENS (US) |
| 09-07-2016 |
Human sexuality an issue for more than just the West, says Anglican Communion secretary-general |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 09-07-2016 |
No compromise: Diehard conservatives walk out of Anglican talks on gay relationships |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 09-07-2016 |
Gay marriage vote: The couple hoping to marry in church |
Callum May, BBC News |
| 09-07-2016 |
Don’t pre-judge same-sex marriage vote, says Canadian Church commission chair |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 09-07-2016 |
Cuban Church continues to grow, says bishop |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 09-07-2016 |
‘We are going to keep moving forward,’ says Cuban Church leader |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 08-07-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury opens General Synod debate on EU referendum |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 08-07-2016 |
Look forward with generosity, Church of England General Synod urges a divided nation |
Madeleine Davies, Hattie Williams and Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 08-07-2016 |
Christians urged to ‘build generous, forward-looking country’ following Brexit result |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 08-07-2016 |
Archbishop of York calls upon post-Brexit Britain to evoke spirit of Nelson Mandela |
Tom Richmond, The Yorkshire Post (UK) |
| 08-07-2016 |
Church of England General Synod opts to ‘recognise’ EU referendum result despite opposition |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 08-07-2016 |
CofE General Synod faces conservative boycott over gay marriage talks |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 08-07-2016 |
Video: Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church asks for prayers following US shootings |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/Episcopal News Service (US) video and media release |
| 08-07-2016 |
Primate’s address to Canadian synod emphasises Church’s role in the world |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 08-07-2016 |
Moore College’s treasures unveiled |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 08-07-2016 |
UK Conservative leadership hopefuls have faith |
Gavin Drake, Church Times (UK) |
| 08-07-2016 |
Church of England Evangelical Council tries to stall gay marriage |
Church Times |
| 08-07-2016 |
‘No confidence’ motion about handling of abuse allegations against Bishop George Bell circulated to CofE General Synod |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 08-07-2016 |
Abbey and nation remember the Somme's fallen |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times text and images |
| 07-07-2016 |
Adelaide Anglicans in online consultation on their next Archbishop |
Diocese of Adelaide |
| 07-07-2016 |
Opening worship of Canada’s General Synod confronts difficult questions |
André Forget, Anglican Journal text and images |
| 07-07-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury sends greetings to Muslims for Eid al-Fitr, marking end of Ramadan |
Lambeth Palace video |
| 07-07-2016 |
NSW MP hopeful Royal Commission sheds light on boys' home's dark past |
Giselle Wakatama, ABC Newcastle (NSW) |
| 07-07-2016 |
Drone assesses Christchurch Cathedral earthquake damage |
Jayson Rhodes, ACNS video, text and image |
| 07-07-2016 |
Five years after quake damage, NZ Government announces ‘working party’ for Christchurch Cathedral |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ)/stuff.co.nz videos, images and text |
| 07-07-2016 |
Churches forced to shut in Nigeria – for being too noisy |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 07-07-2016 |
I didn’t like gay marriage law because it hurts Christians, contender for British PM admits |
Belfast Telegraph (UK) video, images and text |
| 07-07-2016 |
Canada's Anglicans set to debate same-sex marriage but ban likely to stay |
Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press |
| 07-07-2016 |
Drones map Welsh burial grounds |
ACNS |
| 06-07-2016 |
Is religious violence a scrap in backyard compared to secular violence? |
Andrew West and William Cavanaugh, ABC Radio National ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ audio and text |
| 06-07-2016 |
Syrian refugee family to live in cottage at Archbishop Welby’s London residence, Lambeth Palace |
Joel Silverstein, Reuters (UK) |
| 06-07-2016 |
Threatened species face extinction owing to ‘God clause’, scientists say |
Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian Australia |
| 06-07-2016 |
NZ Government ‘crying wolf' on Christchurch Cathedral sows uncertainty and mistrust, say developers |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ)/stuff.co.nz |
| 06-07-2016 |
Fort McMurray wildfire in Canada finally under control |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 06-07-2016 |
Late Yukon woman confirmed as Canada’s first Indigenous Anglican woman priest |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 06-07-2016 |
New Archbishop of Kenya will fight for the future of his Church, his country and its young |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 05-07-2016 |
Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury from members of the George Bell Group |
George Bell Group transcript |
| 05-07-2016 |
Royal Commission to hold public hearing into Newcastle Anglican diocese from 2 August |
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse media release |
| 05-07-2016 |
Anglican Diocese of Newcastle welcomes the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |
Diocese of Newcastle media release |
| 05-07-2016 |
Newcastle Anglican diocese prepares for a Royal Commission public hearing in August |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 05-07-2016 |
Encountering God in the Storm: Anglicans gather in Fiji to consult on climate justice |
Anglican Communion News Service text and image |
| 05-07-2016 |
Alone you can run fast, but together we can run far: Anglicans and Lutherans go green together |
ACNS |
| 05-07-2016 |
Shared Conversations: Can the Church of England prevent a split over gay marriage? |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 05-07-2016 |
Presiding Bishop of US Episcopal Church brings message of hope to quake-ravaged Ecuador |
Clara Villatoro and Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) video, text and images |
| 04-07-2016 |
Battle looms in Church of England over ‘blessings’ for gay marriage |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 04-07-2016 |
New Archbishop of Kenya enthroned |
Bellah Zulu, ACNS |
| 04-07-2016 |
Archbishop Justin Welby attends enthronement of Kenya’s new Anglican Primate |
Lambeth Palace media release/ACNS |
| 04-07-2016 |
Kenya: Priests accused of being gay sue bishop, Church |
Faith Nyamai, AllAfrica |
| 03-07-2016 |
Church of England changes wardrobe |
Aaron James, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 02-07-2016 |
Photographing #LetThemStay |
Andrew McMillen, The Saturday Paper |
| 01-07-2016 |
Merged Sydney church agencies begin new life as Anglicare |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 01-07-2016 |
British faith leaders condemn rise of xenophobia following Brexit vote |
Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service (US) |
| 01-07-2016 |
Former pro-Apartheid church welcomed back into world ecumenical family |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 01-07-2016 |
Mission, refugees and peace in the Holy Land addressed by WCC |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 01-07-2016 |
Anglican priest recognised with seafarers’ welfare award |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 30-06-2016 |
Bishops call for ‘responsible honesty’ in PNG corruption fight |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 30-06-2016 |
Churches express solidarity with West Papua independence campaigners |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 30-06-2016 |
Bishops’ consultation helps keep Communion together, says Canadian Primate |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 30-06-2016 |
Anglicans elected to World Council of Churches executive |
ACNS |
| 29-06-2016 |
Delight at operation to clear mines at site of Jesus’ Baptism |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 29-06-2016 |
Prayer response to Turkey airport terror attack |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 29-06-2016 |
South American Primate urges Christians to help write new Chilean Constitution |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 28-06-2016 |
US Episcopal Church leaders urge repeal of North Carolina transgender law |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs media release |
| 28-06-2016 |
Call for unity as Brexit vote sparks racist attacks |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 28-06-2016 |
Church in Japan apologises for inhumane treatment of leprosy patients |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 28-06-2016 |
Kenya’s President praises Archbishop Wabukala for his role in promoting peace, harmony in Church |
Oliver Mathenge, The Star (Kenya) |
| 28-06-2016 |
Church of England faces priestly protest at military conference |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 27-06-2016 |
Church leaders in Philippines undergo public HIV test in battle against stigma |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 24-06-2016 |
EU referendum: Statement by Archbishops of Canterbury and York |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 24-06-2016 |
Now Britain needs to be united and generous, Archbishops say |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 24-06-2016 |
UK needs healing after ‘dehumanising’ EU debate |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 24-06-2016 |
Scottish Episcopal Church Primus comments on outcome of EU referendum |
Scottish Episcopal Church transcript |
| 24-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Armagh comments on result of UK referendum |
Church of Ireland transcript |
| 24-06-2016 |
Welsh bishops’ statement on EU referendum |
Church in Wales transcript |
| 24-06-2016 |
Tributes to British MP Jo Cox pour in from around the world |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times (UK) images and text |
| 24-06-2016 |
Canon Andrew White suspended in dispute over alleged payments to rescue ISIS sex slaves |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 24-06-2016 |
Orthodox Council proceeds without Russia |
Christopher Hill, Church Times (UK) |
| 24-06-2016 |
Medical supplies and aid turned back at Syrian town of Daraya |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 24-06-2016 |
Vigil for mother detained in Iran |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 24-06-2016 |
Religious charities raise £16 billion ($A29 billion) in England and Wales |
Gavin Drake, Church Times text and images |
| 24-06-2016 |
Church of England General Synod prepares for ‘relational road’ |
Madeleine Davies and Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 24-06-2016 |
Give gay decriminalisation priority, Anglicans told |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 23-06-2016 |
Archbishop Welby speaks on ending modern-day slavery |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 23-06-2016 |
Vicar of Baghdad suspended in ISIS funding inquiry |
Timothy C Morgan, Religion News Service (US) |
| 23-06-2016 |
Zanzibar’s Christ Church Cathedral opens slave-trade heritage centre |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 22-06-2016 |
Workers will enter the Holy Rock, the ‘tomb of Jesus’, for the first time in 200 years |
William Booth, The Sydney Morning Herald/Washington Post video, images and text |
| 22-06-2016 |
Same-sex marriage plebiscite uncertain |
ABC Radio ‘AM’ audio and transcript |
| 22-06-2016 |
National Church Life Survey 2016 to target youth, gifts in service |
Nick Gilbert, Sydney Anglicans |
| 22-06-2016 |
Everyone stays mum on future of NZ’s quake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ) |
| 22-06-2016 |
Assassination attempt on Syriac Orthodox Church Patriarch condemned |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-06-2016 |
Report urges Anglicans to defeat laws criminalising same-sex behavior |
Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 22-06-2016 |
Anglican call for action at World Council of Churches |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS |
| 22-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury begins visit to Derby diocese |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 22-06-2016 |
Prayer call over warfare in Nuba Mountains, Sudan |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-06-2016 |
Bishop Martin Nyaboho elected as next Archbishop of Burundi |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-06-2016 |
First Community of St Anselm members finish ‘year in God's time’ |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 21-06-2016 |
Anglican Church says email shows police officer knew about NSW boys' home archives |
Giselle Wakatama, ABC News Newcastle |
| 21-06-2016 |
Ecumenical body consults on a new vision for Europe |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 21-06-2016 |
Man threatens to shoot priest during Sunday Eucharist |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-06-2016 |
Canada’s Anglicans called to observe National Aboriginal Day of Prayer |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-06-2016 |
The worst I've seen – trauma expert lifts lid on 'atrocity' of Australia's detention regime |
Ben Doherty and David Marr, The Guardian Australia videos, images and text |
| 20-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury pays tribute to slain British MP Jo Cox at remembrance service |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 20-06-2016 |
Prayers and tributes follow murder of Yorkshire MP Jo Cox |
Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 20-06-2016 |
Anglicans mark World Refugee Day |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-06-2016 |
ABM partner’s crisp income generation scheme boosts typhoon relief |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-06-2016 |
Ex-Anglican priest jailed for three months in Queensland |
SBS/AAP |
| 17-06-2016 |
Churches offer space for prayers and reflection following murder of British MP Jo Cox |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-06-2016 |
Religious leaders unite in horror at Orlando massacre |
Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 17-06-2016 |
Two bishops urge clerics to rethink ‘interpretations’ of the Bible which condemn homosexuality |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 17-06-2016 |
Bishop calls for change in Church of England attitudes to gay people |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 17-06-2016 |
The ‘sincere’ schism: CofE’s etiquette guide for gay marriage rows |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) text and images |
| 17-06-2016 |
Talk nicely or else, CofE General Synod members are counselled ahead of sex talks |
Madeleine Davies and Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 17-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Derby diocese |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 17-06-2016 |
Ecuador’s earthquake recovery, emotional healing may take years |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) video and text |
| 16-06-2016 |
PM, NSW Premier attend Orlando commemoration service at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 16-06-2016 |
The religious lives of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio and text |
| 16-06-2016 |
Australian Anglicans protest against aid budget cuts |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-06-2016 |
Video: Meet ‘the coolest grandma on Earth’ |
Anglican Overseas Aid/YouTube/ACNS |
| 16-06-2016 |
Church ‘must give a hearing to Evangelical journeys of acceptance for same-sex relationships’ |
Diocese of Liverpool (UK) |
| 16-06-2016 |
Leading evangelical bishops call for Church to change on gays |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 16-06-2016 |
Orthodox churches gather for Holy and Great Council |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 16-06-2016 |
Canada’s Primate thanks Anglicans for prayers in lead-up to General Synod |
Fred Hiltz, Anglican Church of Canada transcript |
| 16-06-2016 |
Roman Catholic orders take their lead from the Pope and divest from fossil fuels |
Michael Slezak, The Guardian Australia |
| 16-06-2016 |
History of Anglicanism in Rwanda preserved in new Kigali archive |
Jesse Zink, ACNS |
| 15-06-2016 |
The Anglican Communion’s spymaster-general |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 15-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at 50th anniversary service for Anglican Centre in Rome |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 15-06-2016 |
Ecumenical devotional to mark Reformation anniversary |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-06-2016 |
Three Indigenous bishops ordained in Argentina |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 14-06-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on Orlando: ‘Pray for the repose of the souls who have died’ |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/Episcopal News Service (US) video |
| 14-06-2016 |
Christians respond to Orlando massacre |
Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service (US) |
| 14-06-2016 |
Australian Christian Lobby’s response to US shooting: Our prayers are with Orlando |
Lyle Shelton, Australian Christian Lobby |
| 13-06-2016 |
Archbishops of Canterbury and York issue joint statement in response to Orlando shootings |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 13-06-2016 |
Orlando shooting: ‘Words of condolence have little value’ |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) |
| 13-06-2016 |
Canadian Anglican bishops condemn Orlando shooting |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 13-06-2016 |
Refugee quota increase ‘shames New Zealand’, says Archbishop |
ACNS |
| 13-06-2016 |
Migrants from UK urged to give evidence to British child abuse inquiry |
Sandra Laville, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-06-2016 |
Sacked NZ cathedral dean begins legal action |
Newstalk ZB (NZ) text and image |
| 13-06-2016 |
Charity, education, and church work recognised in UK Queen’s Birthday Honours list |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 13-06-2016 |
Ghanaian diocese to act against sub-standard medicines |
ACNS |
| 12-06-2016 |
Grafton’s Bishop Macneil apologises to abuse survivor |
Tim Howard, The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW) |
| 12-06-2016 |
Archbishop Justin Welby on the EU referendum |
Lambeth Palace video and transcript |
| 12-06-2016 |
Church of England leader says he will vote for Britain to stay in EU |
Reuters (UK) |
| 10-06-2016 |
Scottish Episcopal Church takes first step towards same-sex marriage |
ACNS |
| 10-06-2016 |
Scottish Episcopal Church takes gay marriage step |
BBC News |
| 10-06-2016 |
Anglican Church in Scotland moves closer to gay marriage |
Antony Bushfield, Premier Media (UK) audio and text |
| 10-06-2016 |
Scottish Episcopal church leaps towards allowing gay marriage |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 10-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at Queen's 90th birthday thanksgiving service |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 10-06-2016 |
Ninety-year-old Mothers' Union member helps celebrate Queen's birthday |
ACNS |
| 10-06-2016 |
Seafarers debate impact of migration crisis |
ACNS |
| 10-06-2016 |
Bishop of Grafton to apologise for abuse of Beth Heinrich by former bishop Donald Shearman |
The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW) |
| 10-06-2016 |
Canadian church report accepts physician-assisted dying as new reality |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 09-06-2016 |
Archbishop Tutu endorses nomination of Palestinian prisoner for Nobel Peace Prize |
ACNS |
| 09-06-2016 |
Mpho Tutu: Choosing between the Church and being gay |
Justine Lang, BBC News video, text and images |
| 09-06-2016 |
Nigeria severs link with Liverpool diocese over same-sex marriage |
Christian Concern (UK) |
| 09-06-2016 |
Scottish Episcopal Church to vote on same-sex marriage |
ACNS |
| 09-06-2016 |
EU vote may have ‘profound effects’ on Scotland’s place in UK, Scottish Anglican leader warns |
Scottish Episcopal Church video and transcript |
| 09-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for greater religious literacy in the media |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 09-06-2016 |
Church of South India plans 1000 ‘green schools’ |
ACNS |
| 09-06-2016 |
Green Churches Network turns 10 in Canada |
Harvey Shepherd, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 09-06-2016 |
Kenyan Anglicans elect new archbishop to succeed former GAFCON chair |
Fredrick Nzwili, The Christian Century (US) |
| 09-06-2016 |
Bishop Gene Robinson: ‘There is a way to be pro-gay and to be pro-Christian, and it is not a violation of scripture to do so’ |
Brendan Joel Kelley, Anchorage Press (US) |
| 08-06-2016 |
Bishop Richard Condie launches Flood Disaster Appeal in Tasmania |
Anglican Media Tasmania media release |
| 08-06-2016 |
Malcolm Turnbull, religion and the public sphere |
ABC Radio National ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ audio and text |
| 08-06-2016 |
Trump on God: ‘Hopefully I won’t have to be asking for much forgiveness’ |
Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post |
| 08-06-2016 |
Anglican chaplains give view on EU vote |
Anglican Communion News Service, video and text |
| 08-06-2016 |
Refugees seeking asylum in UK on religious grounds quizzed on 'Bible trivia' |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 08-06-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury urges Anglicans to pray for Orthodox leaders |
ACNS |
| 07-06-2016 |
Australian churches call for justice in pre-election campaign |
Rachel Farmer, ACNS |
| 07-06-2016 |
Cracks in deal to avert Anglican schism over homosexuality |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 07-06-2016 |
Queensland Government to review religious education |
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)/AAP |
| 07-06-2016 |
Drop-in conflict spurs debate about church’s responsibility to homeless |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 07-06-2016 |
NZ’s only Anglican friary to close |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) text and images |
| 07-06-2016 |
Nigerian bishops discuss recent killings and security with President |
Rachel Farmer, ACNS |
| 06-06-2016 |
Sale cathedral’s new Dean to be the Revd Canon Susanna Pain, great granddaughter of Gippsland’s first Bishop |
Diocese of Gippsland media release and image |
| 06-06-2016 |
Archbishop Welby gives Vespers address during pilgrimage to Cappadocia |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 06-06-2016 |
Church of Pakistan forges new links with China |
Rachel Farmer, ACNS |
| 05-06-2016 |
Bendigo’s St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral re-opens |
Emma D'Agostino, Bendigo Advertiser video, images and text |
| 05-06-2016 |
Panorama of re-opening of Bendigo’s cathedral |
St Paul’s Cathedral Bendigo website images and text |
| 03-06-2016 |
Bishop Condie’s first Presidential Address to Tasmanian Synod |
Diocese of Tasmania transcript |
| 03-06-2016 |
Church of England expands network of support on money and debt |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 02-06-2016 |
CofE in ageing clergy crisis with 25% of ministers aged over 60 |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 31-05-2016 |
A drone’s-eye view of the newly re-opened St Paul’s Cathedral in Bendigo |
Ben Gibbons, Girton Grammar School/YouTube video |
| 31-05-2016 |
Roadmap revealed for European Reformation 500th anniversary in 2017 |
World Council of Churches/ACNS |
| 31-05-2016 |
European Reformation Roadmap to link historical sites in 67 cities, 18 countries |
WCC media release |
| 30-05-2016 |
Dismantle tent city and house its residents, Canadian cathedral dean urges |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 30-05-2016 |
New bishop consecrated for Canada’s Military Ordinariate |
Art Babych, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 28-05-2016 |
Church of Ireland invitation to preacher is rescinded |
Esther Hayden, Irish Independent/Wicklow People (Republic of Ireland) |
| 27-05-2016 |
Canterbury’s Archbishop Justin Welby and Westminster’s Cardinal Vincent Nichols hold Facebook Live chat |
Lambeth Palace/Facebook video and text |
| 27-05-2016 |
Thomas Becket ‘a sign of eternal hope’, says Archbishop Welby |
Lambeth Palace transcript and images |
| 27-05-2016 |
National Reconciliation Week, 27 May-3 June 2016 |
Anglican Board of Mission – Australia online resources |
| 27-05-2016 |
Church in England and Wales contains hardly any converts, report suggests |
Church Times (UK) |
| 27-05-2016 |
Anglican Communion’s conflict transformation and reconciliation ministry leader returns to parish work |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 27-05-2016 |
Diocese in Europe opens new parish in France |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 26-05-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury praises bombed London centre as ‘a symbol and a place of reconciliation’ |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 26-05-2016 |
The Anglican Consultative Council in Zambia: An Australian reflection in words and photos |
Arthur Copeman, Diocese of Newcastle |
| 26-05-2016 |
Richard ‘Tommy’ Campion vows to continue helping other abuse victims seek justice |
Samantha Turnbull, ABC North Coast (NSW) text, audio and images |
| 26-05-2016 |
Church of England’s investment arm loses ExxonMobil climate action disclosure bid |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 26-05-2016 |
Primate of Uganda warns against syncretism |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 25-05-2016 |
Sydney’s Archbishop Davies says taskforce’s work on resisting porn is vital |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 25-05-2016 |
Anglo-Scottish ecumenical agreement approved by Church of Scotland |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 25-05-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury addresses Church of Scotland General Assembly |
Lambeth Palace transcript/Andrew O’Brien, Church of Scotland images |
| 25-05-2016 |
Video: Archbishop Welby’s address to the Kirk Assembly in Edinburgh |
Church of Scotland video |
| 25-05-2016 |
Scottish Anglican leader responds to Church of Scotland’s approval of Columba Declaration |
Scottish Episcopal Church media release |
| 25-05-2016 |
Historic ecumenical agreement with Church of England approved |
Church of Scotland text and images |
| 25-05-2016 |
Lampedusa refugee cross at the Anglican Centre in Rome |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 25-05-2016 |
World summit a ‘turning point’ for humanitarian affairs |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 25-05-2016 |
Anglican aged care group HammondCare wins deal for aged homeless project in Sydney |
Emma Brancatisano, Huffington Post Australia |
| 25-05-2016 |
Confirmation rite under review in NZ |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 24-05-2016 |
Federal election: Bill Shorten to keep discrimination exemption for churches |
Matthew Knott, The Sydney Morning Herald text and video |
| 24-05-2016 |
Church implements disaster strategy after devastating Sri Lankan floods |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 24-05-2016 |
Dublin’s Anglican leader welcomes Vatican announcement on 2018 World Meeting of Families |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 24-05-2016 |
Melbourne Girls Grammar School chaplain Denise Nicholls to abseil 27 storeys for charity |
Jamie First, Stonnington Leader text and image |
| 24-05-2016 |
People of no religion outnumber Christians in England and Wales: study |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 23-05-2016 |
Exodus: churches lose 11 worshippers for every new member |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 23-05-2016 |
Tutu's daughter leaves Anglican ministry after marrying a woman |
South African Broadcasting Corporation text and image |
| 23-05-2016 |
Revd Tutu’s gay marriage is re-igniting the debate over same-sex marriages in Anglican churches around the world |
Hadassah Egbedi, Ventures Africa |
| 23-05-2016 |
Desmond Tutu's reverend daughter marries a woman and loses church licence |
Aislinn Laing, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 23-05-2016 |
Becket's bones return to Canterbury Cathedral |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 23-05-2016 |
Anglicans, Catholics welcome return of Thomas Becket relics |
Vatican Radio audio, text and image |
| 23-05-2016 |
Tackling poverty and conflict through microfinance |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 23-05-2016 |
‘When NGOs leave, faith communities remain’, World Humanitarian Summit hears |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 23-05-2016 |
Nigeria can't afford another war now: Anglican Church |
Gboyega Akinsanmi, This Day (Nigeria)/AllAfrica.com |
| 23-05-2016 |
Bishop concerned by rising political violence in Zambia |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 21-05-2016 |
Church of England ‘could accept clergy in same-sex marriages’ following historic vote in Scotland |
Lydia Willgress, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 21-05-2016 |
Don't speak about your faith unless you're asked to, says Archbishop of Canterbury |
John Bingham, The Telegraph (UK) |
| 21-05-2016 |
Scottish churches push forward on gay rights |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 20-05-2016 |
Second Chibok girl rescued, says Nigerian army |
World Watch Monitor (UK) |
| 20-05-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes faith leaders to Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace text, transcript and images |
| 20-05-2016 |
Scottish Episcopal Church to debate changes to marriage canon |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 20-05-2016 |
Church of Ireland rector rescinds invitation to controversial anti-LGBT speaker |
RTE – Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Republic of Ireland) |
| 20-05-2016 |
Alleged abuse victim rejects apology from Bishop of Winchester |
ITV News (UK) |
| 20-05-2016 |
Bishop Jackson Ole Sapit elected as next Archbishop of Kenya |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-05-2016 |
Retiring Anglican bishop questions cost of office |
John Lewis, Otago Daily Times (NZ) |
| 19-05-2016 |
Anglican-Methodist ministry exchange delayed |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-05-2016 |
Christian Aid challenges British PM David Cameron on tax haven secrecy |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 18-05-2016 |
Sydney Anglicans welcome recommendation that ban on commercial surrogacy continues |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 18-05-2016 |
Hugh Mackay on Australians and belief |
ABC Radio National ‘Religion and Ethics Report’ audio and text, with Andrew West |
| 18-05-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for ‘great further step’ to end AIDS by 2030 |
Lambeth Palace text/YouTube video |
| 18-05-2016 |
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) forms joint working group with Scottish Episcopal (Anglican) Church |
Church of Scotland media release |
| 18-05-2016 |
‘Subversive peacemaking’ theme at Pax Christi conference |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 17-05-2016 |
Church of England investment arm trebles capital in two decades |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-05-2016 |
Newcastle’s Anglican Church sets up Parish Recovery Team to support abuse survivors |
Liz Farquhar, ABC News Newcastle |
| 17-05-2016 |
Six months in, new US Episcopal church leader reflects on church challenges |
PBS ‘Newshour’ (US) video and transcript |
| 17-05-2016 |
Anglicans, Catholics to publish first ARCIC III volume, ‘Towards a Church fully reconciled’ |
Vatican Radio audio and text |
| 17-05-2016 |
Japanese Anglicans open support centre following earthquakes |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 17-05-2016 |
United Society backs plan to eradicate AIDS by 2030 |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-05-2016 |
Primate of Brazil mobilises to ‘reclaim our democracy’ |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 16-05-2016 |
A Vote For The Voiceless: A STATEMENT BY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF AUSTRALIA ON THE ELECTION |
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference |
| 16-05-2016 |
Anglican-Catholic dialogue hammering out the ‘tough difficulties’ |
MICHAEL SWAN, THE CATHOLIC REGISTER |
| 16-05-2016 |
Mine clearance at site of Christ’s baptism ‘a symbol of hope’, says Archbishop Welby |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 16-05-2016 |
Faith groups’ dismay at UK boycott of UN disarmament meeting |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 15-05-2016 |
Archbishop Roger Herft appointed Prelate of the Order of St John |
Archbishop of Perth website |
| 14-05-2016 |
Budget tax cut: Religious groups urge those earning more than $80,000 to donate $6 gain to charity |
Gabrielle Chan, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-05-2016 |
Church of England wants to train new clergy with apprenticeship fund |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-05-2016 |
NZ Anglican Synod fails to approve gay marriages |
Simon Collins, The New Zealand Herald |
| 13-05-2016 |
'Today I hang my head in shame': Auckland priest reacts to Synod decision |
Simon Collins, The New Zealand Herald |
| 13-05-2016 |
NZ Anglicans delay decision to bless gay marriage |
Emma Jolliff, Newshub (NZ) video and text |
| 13-05-2016 |
Anglican Church in NZ delays decision on same-sex weddings for two years |
stuff.co.nz |
| 13-05-2016 |
President of Nigeria visits Lambeth Palace |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and images |
| 13-05-2016 |
Gender justice in southern Africa: ‘We need to believe in the miracle of change’ |
ACNS |
| 13-05-2016 |
President of Nigeria visits Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release and images |
| 13-05-2016 |
Reaping the benefits of Anglican-RC talks |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 13-05-2016 |
NZ Anglican Synod fails to approve gay marriages |
Simon Collins, The New Zealand Herald |
| 12-05-2016 |
NZ postpones decision on same-sex blessings |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 12-05-2016 |
Support increases for ExxonMobil climate change resolution |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 11-05-2016 |
Church to develop disaster strategy as Pacific islands disappear |
ACNS |
| 11-05-2016 |
Life after a terror attack: a call to prayer and a warning against complacency |
Adrian Butcher, ACNS/YouTube video, text and image |
| 11-05-2016 |
Buddhist monks in Myanmar methodically pushing Christians out of their own church |
Lorraine Caballero, Christian Today (US) text and video |
| 11-05-2016 |
Homeless centre on the skids after falling out with church |
John Meagher, Montreal Gazette (Canada) |
| 10-05-2016 |
On track to equal gender representation in Anglican Church in Aotearoa, NZ and Polynesia |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) text and images |
| 10-05-2016 |
Anglican Church drops Chung Chi to show loyalty to Beijing |
S.C. Yeung, EJ Insight |
| 10-05-2016 |
Dr Freier appointed to Anglican Communion task group to maintain conversation amidst deep differences |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 10-05-2016 |
Jerusalem’s vocation is to be a city of peace, says Holy City’s Anglican leader |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 10-05-2016 |
NZ Anglicans divided on same-sex blessings |
Radio New Zealand audio and text |
| 10-05-2016 |
Bid to avoid split over gay marriage |
Simon Collins, The New Zealand Herald |
| 10-05-2016 |
Malawi bishop in call for action to stop attacks on people with albinism |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 10-05-2016 |
Welsh bishop renders four beasts unto Caesar with new pound coin design |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 09-05-2016 |
Summit mobilises community to address human trafficking |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 09-05-2016 |
Anna Burke: 'It's time for a rational debate about refugees |
Di Cousens, Eureka Street |
| 09-05-2016 |
Anglican chief counters accusations of ‘Lusaka Six’ |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 09-05-2016 |
Kenyan Primate approaches retirement with call to trust |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 09-05-2016 |
Making church safer for all |
Diana Swift, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 09-05-2016 |
Anglican seminary re-opens in the Arctic |
ACNS |
| 08-05-2016 |
Launceston's St John’s Anglican Church clock celebrated at National Trust History Festival |
Michelle Wisbey, The Examiner (Tasmania) |
| 08-05-2016 |
Anglican Communion Secretary-General rejects criticism over ‘Walking Together’ resolution |
ACNS |
| 08-05-2016 |
Pomp and colour as Archbishop Wabukala exits helm of Kenya’s Anglican Church |
Julius Otieno and Murimi Njiru, The Star (Kenya) text and images |
| 07-05-2016 |
Priest's affairs ‘comfort’ after assault by man |
Radio New Zealand text and images |
| 06-05-2016 |
Kiwi dean stood down over adulterous affair 25 years ago |
Talia Shadwell, The Dominion Post (NZ) |
| 06-05-2016 |
Churches throughout England gear up for ‘great wave of prayer’ |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service video and text |
| 06-05-2016 |
Rescues continue as Canadian wildfire grows |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 06-05-2016 |
ACC-16 ‘neither endorsed nor affirmed’ Primates’ action, six outgoing members say |
Episcopal News Service (US) transcript |
| 05-05-2016 |
Dean’s affairs followed ‘serious sexual assault’ |
Victoria White, The New Zealand Herald |
| 05-05-2016 |
NZ debates ‘Way Forward’ on same-sex relationships |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 05-05-2016 |
MP's plan to pay for cathedral repairs by letting gay and lesbian couples marry there |
Jonathan Walker, Birmingham Mail (UK) |
| 05-05-2016 |
Anglicans respond to Canadian town’s wildfire evacuation |
ACNS |
| 05-05-2016 |
British MP challenges Church Commissioners on climate change |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 04-05-2016 |
Anglican bishop urges leaders to talk |
The Australian |
| 04-05-2016 |
Ballarat’s Anglican Cathedral for sale after 162 years |
Alex Hamer, The Courier (Ballarat) |
| 04-05-2016 |
Charities register stays |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 04-05-2016 |
Canadian Anglicans reach out to victims of Fort McMurray wildfire |
Tali Folkins and André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 04-05-2016 |
Pakistan bishop laments murder of Minister for Religious Minorities |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 04-05-2016 |
Isle of Man bishop votes against same-sex marriage law |
ACNS |
| 04-05-2016 |
Companion link leads US bishop to take assisting role in Liverpool |
ACNS |
| 04-05-2016 |
Enthronement of new Archbishop of Melanesia |
ACNS |
| 03-05-2016 |
Gongs and plaudits for Church of England’s ethical investment stance |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 03-05-2016 |
Church praise for Leicester City’s English Premier League success |
ACNS |
| 02-05-2016 |
Christchurch Cathedral's future remains uncertain |
Rachel Graham, Radio New Zealand |
| 30-04-2016 |
Racism in US is ‘deep, wide, pervasive’ — but churches can bring hope, finds WCC delegation |
World Council of Churches text and image |
| 29-04-2016 |
African Anglicans look to reduce El Niño’s hunger footprint |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 29-04-2016 |
Hillsborough verdicts forces police chief suspension |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 29-04-2016 |
British MPs reject proposal to take in 3000 child refugees |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 29-04-2016 |
Abuse victim accuses CofE of cover-up |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 29-04-2016 |
Tudor mystery over 'Mrs Shakespeare' letter |
ACNS |
| 29-04-2016 |
Cathedral reveals letter from ‘Mrs Shakspaire’ |
Paul Wilkinson, Church Times (UK) |
| 29-04-2016 |
President Dilma Rousseff retains the support of Brazilian Anglicans |
ACNS |
| 29-04-2016 |
Suspicious blaze destroys historic Deer Park church |
Melissa Merrett, Brimbank Leader |
| 29-04-2016 |
Campaigners urge PM David Cameron to act on UK tax havens |
Ekklesia (UK)/agencies |
| 29-04-2016 |
'Holding together in diversity' – Archbishop of Canterbury on the ACC meeting in Lusaka |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 28-04-2016 |
St Mary's Anglican Church in NSW Hunter Valley branches out into fresh produce |
Belinda-Jane Davis, The Maitland Mercury (NSW) |
| 28-04-2016 |
Bishop of Durham welcomes asylum call for children at risk |
Church of England media release |
| 28-04-2016 |
Hillsborough: 'Truth is finally revealed; now for justice' |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 28-04-2016 |
ACC meeting emphasised common goals, delegates say |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 28-04-2016 |
What does faithful obedience look like in US Election 2016? |
Sojourners (US) |
| 28-04-2016 |
Called to resist bigotry — A Statement of Faithful Obedience by US church leaders |
Sojourners (US) transcript |
| 28-04-2016 |
ACC meeting emphasised common goals, Canadian delegates say |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 27-04-2016 |
Sydney Synod votes for historic merger |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 27-04-2016 |
Building friendships with an emerging church in the Pacific |
Diocese of Newcastle (NSW) images and text |
| 27-04-2016 |
Liverpool’s former Bishop James Jones to report to British Government on Hillsborough families’ experience |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 27-04-2016 |
Apartheid heroes honoured for their peace and justice work |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and images |
| 27-04-2016 |
Other Canadian churches escape residential-school settlement obligations in wake of Catholic deal |
Gloria Galloway and Sean Fine, The Globe and Mail (Canada) |
| 26-04-2016 |
Community meals a time to dine out |
Stephen Taylor, Mornington News (Vic) |
| 26-04-2016 |
‘Q&A's’ all-Christian panel told those who disagree ‘neither wicked nor stupid’ |
Ben Doherty, The Guardian Australia |
| 26-04-2016 |
Bishop of Liverpool: Hillsborough is a story of ‘loss, grief and pain’ |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 26-04-2016 |
Australian Christian leaders oppose aid budget cut |
ACNS |
| 26-04-2016 |
Reformation and unity among ACC’s ecumenical resolutions |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 26-04-2016 |
Ancient sticky notes shift secular scholars closer to Evangelicals on Bible’s age |
Gordon Govier, Christianity Today (US) |
| 26-04-2016 |
Episcopalians reaffirm their commitment to the environment |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 26-04-2016 |
Church of England releases prayer for EU Referendum campaign |
Church of England media release |
| 26-04-2016 |
CofE's referendum prayer for close ties with ‘all the peoples of Europe’ |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 25-04-2016 |
Church’s worldwide provinces urged to adopt Anglican Communion Sunday |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 25-04-2016 |
Central Africa applied ‘embassy’ protocol for ACC’s visiting female priests |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 25-04-2016 |
California bishop represents US Church at UN climate agreement signing |
Lynette Wilson, ENS (US) text and images |
| 24-04-2016 |
Atheist pastor sparks debate by ‘irritating the church into the 21st century’ |
Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian Australia |
| 23-04-2016 |
Anglican head hails Zimbabwe church |
Daily News (Zimbabwe) |
| 23-04-2016 |
Celebrations to mark Shakespeare's 400th anniversary |
Lydia O’Kane, Vatican Radio audio and text |
| 22-04-2016 |
Anglican Consultative Council adopts 45 resolutions by assent |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 22-04-2016 |
ACC wants ‘every province, diocese and parish’ to focus on intentional discipleship |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-04-2016 |
Men and boys have role in fight for gender justice |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-04-2016 |
Anglicans call for release of Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman convicted of blasphemy |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 22-04-2016 |
GAFCON Primates say Lusaka meeting of ACC highlights Anglican Communion's inability to uphold godly order |
Global Anglican Future Conference Primates communique |
| 22-04-2016 |
Six bishops in race to succeed Kenya’s Archbishop Eliud Wabukala |
Charles Wanyoro, The Daily Nation (Kenya)/AllAfrica.com |
| 22-04-2016 |
Our country is like a war zone after quake, says Ecuadorean bishop |
David Knowles, Church Times (UK) |
| 22-04-2016 |
Japanese Church seeks to help earthquake victims |
David Knowles, Church Times |
| 22-04-2016 |
The Paris Climate Agreement signing ceremony at a glance |
Emil Jeyaratnam, James Whitmore and Michael Hopkin, The Conversation |
| 22-04-2016 |
Call for national unity to mark Queen's 90th birthday |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 22-04-2016 |
Church of England reaches agreement with UK Government on responsibility for church schools |
Margaret Holness, Church Times |
| 21-04-2016 |
Sydney's housing affordability crisis for low-income earners is spreading, Anglicare finds |
Leesha McKenny and Inga Ting, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 21-04-2016 |
GAFCON-affiliated Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans launches in NZ |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 21-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury wishes the Queen a happy 90th birthday |
Lambeth Palace media release, video and image |
| 21-04-2016 |
Anglican Communion sends birthday greetings to Queen Elizabeth II |
ACNS |
| 21-04-2016 |
British MPs accuse Islamic State of genocide |
David Knowles, Church Times |
| 21-04-2016 |
Thousands join Archbishop Welby for Zimbabwe celebration |
ACNS |
| 21-04-2016 |
Prayers and action following Ecuador earthquake |
ACNS |
| 21-04-2016 |
Claiming fraud, Anglican clerics seek action against Muslim preacher posing as ex-priest |
Ida Lim, Malay Mail Online (Malaysia) |
| 21-04-2016 |
Fraudulent claims by religious speaker must be stopped, says Anglican Church in Malaysia |
Malay Mail Online |
| 21-04-2016 |
Anglican, Lutheran leaders echo call for ‘brave action’ on climate change |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 20-04-2016 |
Federal Budget 2016: Churches call on Treasurer Scott Morrison to reverse foreign aid cuts |
Matt Wade, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 20-04-2016 |
Anglican Consultative Council commits to ‘walking together’ with the Primates |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 20-04-2016 |
ACC members depart with stories of unity |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 20-04-2016 |
‘Consequences’ imposed on US Church by Anglican Primates have been ‘fully implemented’, says Archbishop of Canterbury |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 20-04-2016 |
Archbishop Welby hails Zimbabwe-Church relations |
Peta Thornycroft, IOL/Independent Foreign Service (South Africa) |
| 19-04-2016 |
Anglican Consultative Council’s 16th meeting concludes in Lusaka on note of unity amid diversity |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) video, text and images |
| 19-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on ACC-16 as it draws to a close |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 19-04-2016 |
Sermon at Closing Eucharist of ACC-16 by retiring Chair Bishop James Tengatenga of Malawi |
ENS/YouTube video and transcript |
| 19-04-2016 |
A Letter from Lusaka: US Episcopalian ACC members write to their Church |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/ENS transcript |
| 19-04-2016 |
New leaders elected for worldwide Anglican Communion |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 19-04-2016 |
Melbourne’s Archbishop Freier and other Anglican Consultative Council members worship with Lusaka parishes |
Bellah Zulu, ACNS |
| 19-04-2016 |
90th birthday greetings for Queen from ACC-16 delegates in Lusaka |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 19-04-2016 |
Stratford-upon-Avon church prepares for Shakespeare celebrations |
Antony Bushfield, Premier Christian Media (UK) text and images |
| 18-04-2016 |
Archbishop Welby discusses same-sex marriage at talks with President Mugabe |
ACNS text, images and video |
| 18-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury meets Robert Mugabe for ‘pastoral’ meeting |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 18-04-2016 |
Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe meets Archbishop Welby |
The Herald (Zimbabwe) |
| 18-04-2016 |
Anglican Consultative Council declines to go along with ‘consequences’ |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text, video and image |
| 18-04-2016 |
Refugee, Migration and the Anglican Communion |
Matthew Davies, ENS (US)/Anglican Communion video |
| 18-04-2016 |
A summary of ACC-16 resolutions in Lusaka |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 18-04-2016 |
Church of England lay member Margaret Swinson chosen as ACC Vice-Chair |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 18-04-2016 |
ACC picks diverse leaders |
Mark Michael, The Living Church (US) |
| 18-04-2016 |
New Archbishop of Melanesia enthroned |
Solomon Star (Solomon Islands) |
| 18-04-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry calls for prayer for Ecuador after quake |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs/ENS (US) media release |
| 18-04-2016 |
Bishop of Salisbury signs new UN petition on climate change |
Marcus Jones, Premier Christian Media (UK) text, audio and images |
| 18-04-2016 |
Calls for prayer, solidarity with the Church in Ecuador |
Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 17-04-2016 |
Leading South Sudanese churchman visits Sydney seeking help with theological training |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 17-04-2016 |
Interfaith Climate Change Statement to World Leaders signed by 270 religious leaders to be launched in New York |
Green Faith (US) media release |
| 16-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's presidential address to ACC-16 |
Lambeth Palace transcript, video and image |
| 15-04-2016 |
Anglican Consultative Council complies with Primates, in a way |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 15-04-2016 |
ACC’s critics are given firm rebuke |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 15-04-2016 |
Communion seeks clarity over ‘can’t pay’ and ‘won’t’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 15-04-2016 |
Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance |
Reema Rattan, Wes Mountain and Thalia Anthony, The Conversation |
| 15-04-2016 |
Praise for Archbishop Welby follows family revelations |
Madeleine Davies and Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 15-04-2016 |
Sheffield bishop’s move ends Oxford diocese’s 18-month wait for leader |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 15-04-2016 |
Primate of Hong Kong elected as new chair of Anglican Consultative Council |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 15-04-2016 |
Gender justice and the Anglican Communion |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 15-04-2016 |
Archbishop Welby to chair Anglican Communion environment initiative |
ACNS |
| 15-04-2016 |
Dr Peter Jensen: Join conservative GAFCON to avoid ‘long, slow slide’ to changing doctrine |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 15-04-2016 |
Book on Britain’s housing crisis launched at Manchester Cathedral |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 14-04-2016 |
Canberra churchgoers seek training in how to spot, report child sex abusers |
Alexandra Beech, ABC News |
| 14-04-2016 |
Church of England challenges BP chief’s £14 million ($A26 million) pay deal |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 14-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury contributes to new ‘God and Money’ films |
Lambeth Palace text and video |
| 14-04-2016 |
Adult Sunday Schools suggested in discipleship move |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-04-2016 |
Archbishop Welby asks churches to pray with renewed expectancy this Pentecost |
Lambeth Palace text and video |
| 14-04-2016 |
CofE seeking more ethnic diversity among its clergy |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today |
| 14-04-2016 |
Two candidates for chair of Anglican Consultative Council |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 14-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's XI to play Roman Catholic and Muslim teams |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 14-04-2016 |
Muslim XI to join Anglicans, Catholics in triangular cricket series |
ACNS |
| 14-04-2016 |
Celebration and a call to love mark US Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop’s visit to Charleston, South Carolina |
Holly Behre, Episcopal News Service/Episcopal Church in South Carolina (US) |
| 14-04-2016 |
Letting them die: parents refuse medical help for children in the name of Christ |
Jason Wilson, The Guardian Australia |
| 14-04-2016 |
Historic cathedral’s new look |
Shane Worrell, Bendigo Advertiser video, images and text |
| 13-04-2016 |
Environmental issues and the Anglican Communion |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 13-04-2016 |
Anglican Communion directors report to Lusaka gathering on wide range of initiatives |
ACNS |
| 13-04-2016 |
All Saints' College on market to pay Bathurst diocese's bank debt |
Nicole Kuter, Daily Liberal (Dubbo, NSW) |
| 13-04-2016 |
US bishop issues letter about Trump fund-raiser |
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island/ENS (US) |
| 13-04-2016 |
Diocese of West Yorkshire and The Dales to be known as ‘Diocese of Leeds’ |
Diocese of Leeds media release |
| 13-04-2016 |
CofE offers new resources to encourage vocations |
Church of England media release |
| 12-04-2016 |
Justin Welby ‘fully cooperated’ in revealing identity of his real father |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 12-04-2016 |
Highly religious people say they’re happier, too, survey finds |
Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service (US) |
| 12-04-2016 |
ACC discusses provinces that give little or nothing to Anglican Communion budget |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 12-04-2016 |
Ecumenical guests welcome involvement at Anglican Consultative Council |
ACNS |
| 12-04-2016 |
Roman Catholic Church sends greetings to Lusaka meeting of ACC-16 |
ACNS |
| 12-04-2016 |
The Bible is among 10 ‘most challenged’ books in America of 2015 |
Emily McFarlan Miller, RNS (US) text and video |
| 12-04-2016 |
British PM must do more on tax haven abuse, says Christian Aid |
Ekklesia (UK) |
| 11-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon at Opening Eucharist of 16th meeting of Anglican Consultative Council |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 11-04-2016 |
Statement from the Anglican Communion’s Secretary-General on events leading up to ACC-16 |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 11-04-2016 |
Top Anglican condemns forgery allegations as ‘scurrilous’ and ‘untrue’ |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 11-04-2016 |
Report from the Anglican Communion’s Secretary-General to ACC-16 |
ACNS |
| 11-04-2016 |
Lively celebration of music and dance ushers in ACC-16 in Lusaka, Zambia |
Anglican Communion/YouTube video |
| 11-04-2016 |
Multimedia: Scenes from ACC-16 Opening Eucharist |
Matthew Davies and Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) video and images |
| 11-04-2016 |
Episcopal Church commended for respecting differences on marriage |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 11-04-2016 |
Bishop Condie’s message of courage as he begins tour of Tasmania’s rural parishes |
Ashleigh Force, Circular Head Chronicle (Tas) text and images |
| 11-04-2016 |
Zambia: Work with Government, Church urged |
James Kunda, Times of Zambia/AllAfrica.com.au |
| 11-04-2016 |
Danny Willett: Who is the vicar’s son who won the 2016 US Masters golf championship? |
The Guardian Australia video and text |
| 11-04-2016 |
Quake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral announcement expected in weeks |
Charlie Gates, The Press (NZ) |
| 10-04-2016 |
Adelaide’s retiring Anglican Archbishop Jeffrey Driver calls for greater ‘connection’ |
Nigel Hunt and Michael McGuire, The Advertiser (Adelaide) |
| 10-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby reveals his father was Winston Churchill's private secretary |
ABC News/Agence France-Presse |
| 10-04-2016 |
Outpouring of respect for Archbishop Justin Welby after DNA paternity ‘surprise’ |
Patrick Sawer, The Sunday Telegraph (UK) video and text |
| 10-04-2016 |
Faith leaders praise Archbishop of Canterbury's reaction to news of father |
The Guardian Australia/Press Association |
| 10-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at ACC-16 Opening Eucharist |
Anglican Communion/YouTube video |
| 10-04-2016 |
Archbishop Welby speaks on DNA revelations |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 10-04-2016 |
Justin Welby plans to meet half-sister he never knew |
Gordon Rayner and Camilla Turner, The Daily Telegraph (UK) video and text |
| 10-04-2016 |
The Jihad of Jesus? Religions combine to teach tolerance |
Roxanne McCarty-O'Kane, Sunshine Coast Daily (Qld) |
| 09-04-2016 |
Archbishop Driver’s Letter to the Diocese Of Adelaide |
Diocese of Adelaide transcript |
| 09-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury learns real father was Churchill's private secretary |
BBC News video, images and text |
| 09-04-2016 |
Support for Archbishop Justin Welby after newspaper DNA revelations |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and video |
| 09-04-2016 |
Welby speaks of redemption after revelations about his biological father |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 09-04-2016 |
Sixteenth Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-16) is a chance to foster growth and better relations, says Primate of Hong Kong |
Bellah Zulu, ACNS text and images |
| 09-04-2016 |
ACC-16 goes paperless with iPads |
Bellah Zulu, ACNS |
| 09-04-2016 |
ACC members outline priority issues facing the Church and the world |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 08-04-2016 |
A personal statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 08-04-2016 |
Archbishop Welby briefs Anglican Consultative Council members on the Primates’ gathering and meeting |
Anglican Communion News Service transcript and image |
| 08-04-2016 |
Canterbury speaks to Lusaka meeting of ACC-16 |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 08-04-2016 |
Young Anglicans' environment challenge |
ACNS/YouTube video |
| 08-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury meets the President of Zambia |
Gavin Drake, ACNS images and text |
| 08-04-2016 |
Welsh Anglican Church apologises for persecution of gay and lesbian people - but still won't let them marry |
Will Worley, The Independent (UK) |
| 08-04-2016 |
Welsh Anglican Church apologises to gay and lesbian people |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 08-04-2016 |
All Saints: From Sydney mortuary station to Canberra Anglican church |
Penny Travers, ABC Canberra text and images |
| 08-04-2016 |
Justin Welby: DNA test reveals my secret father was Sir Winston Churchill's private secretary |
Charles Moore and Gordon Rayner, The Daily Telegraph (UK) video, text and images |
| 08-04-2016 |
How 1950s law change averted crisis in Anglican Communion |
Charles Moore and Gordon Rayner, The Daily Telegraph |
| 08-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Kenya hits out at Justin Welby over breakdown of ‘godly order’ |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 08-04-2016 |
Historic Merseyside Anglican church set to become Egyptian Orthodox |
Liam Murphy, Liverpool Echo (UK) |
| 07-04-2016 |
Statement by Jane Williams (Lady Williams of Elvel), mother of the Archbishop of Canterbury |
Personal website transcript |
| 07-04-2016 |
Wales Archbishop tells Gay Christians that Church won't change doctrine to support same-sex marriage |
Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post (US) |
| 07-04-2016 |
Anglican Consultative Council Standing Committee meets |
ACNS |
| 07-04-2016 |
Warm welcome for Archbishop of Canterbury in Zambia |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 07-04-2016 |
Young Anglicans challenge the global Church to protect the environment |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 07-04-2016 |
Media briefing gives outline for 16th meeting of Anglican Consultative Council, in Lusaka |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 07-04-2016 |
Archbishop Welby prays for Zambian journalists |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 07-04-2016 |
Welsh bishops: Debate remains open on same-sex marriage |
ACNS |
| 07-04-2016 |
The Messiah cometh: Museum of the Bible descends on Washington, DC |
Nina Burleigh, Newsweek (US) video, text and images |
| 07-04-2016 |
WCC chief speaks on global security in York Minster lecture |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 04-04-2016 |
Multi-faith vigil for Lahore Easter bomb victims |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 04-04-2016 |
Church hosts short film competition in fight against drugs |
ACNS video and text |
| 04-04-2016 |
Archbishop of York criticises UK Chancellor’s minimum wage re-brand |
ACNS |
| 04-04-2016 |
Canadian General Synod to consider bilateral dialogue with Mennonites |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 04-04-2016 |
US Episcopal Church fires two top executives for workplace misconduct |
Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service (US) |
| 04-04-2016 |
Presiding Bishop updates staff on independent investigation into three suspended US Episcopal senior managers |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs (US) media release |
| 01-04-2016 |
Conservative US bishops urge liberals voluntarily to abide by gay marriage sanctions |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 01-04-2016 |
Decision to follow Christ most ‘challenging, beautiful, costly, rewarding journey ever’, says SE Asia’s Archbishop Ng Moon Hing |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today |
| 01-04-2016 |
Majority of indigenous Canadians remain Christians despite residential schools |
CBC Radio (Canada), ‘The Current’ with Anna Maria Tremonti audio and text |
| 01-04-2016 |
Anglican bishop’s 470-km walk a ‘small step on a journey toward reconciliation’ |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 01-04-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's awards ceremony held at Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 01-04-2016 |
Brazil’s bishops speak out on political crisis |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 01-04-2016 |
Same-sex marriage advocates form Facebook group after Canadian bishops’ statement |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 01-04-2016 |
Beyond condemnation: Archbishop of Canterbury writes for the 'Financial Times' on protecting religious minorities |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 01-04-2016 |
Sydney Anglicans open appeal for Lahore Bomb victims |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 01-04-2016 |
Will Hopoate's choice of religion over NRL may lead others to forgo Sunday games |
Australian Associated Press/The Guardian Australia |
| 01-04-2016 |
Three African Anglican Primates announce boycott of ACC meeting |
Church Times (UK) |
| 01-04-2016 |
Anglicans, Episcopalians head to Zambia for consultative council |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS (US) text and images |
| 31-03-2016 |
‘I hadn't realised how absolutely pervasive family violence is’: Royal Commissioner |
Melissa Davey, The Guardian Australia |
| 31-03-2016 |
Galatians 6:2 Anglican conference in Tanzania explores ‘bearing one another’s burdens’ |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 31-03-2016 |
WCC to convene June conference on reconciliation processes in indigenous contexts |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 31-03-2016 |
Evangelism in an age of terror, homophobia and indifference – an interview with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby |
Ruth Mawhinney, Christian Today (UK) |
| 31-03-2016 |
Easter Message from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of Jerusalem |
ACNS |
| 31-03-2016 |
Look forward with Hope |
Suheil Dawani, ACNS |
| 31-03-2016 |
Holy Land Institute for the Deaf a centre of hope for disabled children |
Faith Rowold with Jo Kadlecek, Episcopal News Service (US) video, images and text |
| 31-03-2016 |
A message from the congregation at St George's, Baghdad |
ACNS/Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf/Vimeo video |
| 31-03-2016 |
An Easter Report from the Communion Partners of the Episcopal Church |
Anglican Ink transcript (US) |
| 31-03-2016 |
Primate calls for ‘tsunami of truth-telling’ after South African President loses court battle |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 31-03-2016 |
Churches unite to support Welsh steel workers |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 30-03-2016 |
Church of Pakistan consoles nation where ‘every heart broken’ |
Gillian Oliver and Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 30-03-2016 |
Canada’s churches respond to deadline on First Nations’ reconciliation |
Kairos Canada/ACNS |
| 30-03-2016 |
Episcopal Church’s ‘season of prayer’ for Anglicans facing violence and civil strife |
ACNS |
| 30-03-2016 |
New Moore College graduates told to ‘die to self’ in their ministries |
Nick Gilbert, Sydney Anglicans |
| 29-03-2016 |
‘Enough is enough’ – Moderator laments Pakistan bombing |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and video |
| 29-03-2016 |
Charismatic movement gains as Church of England sputters |
Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service (US) |
| 29-03-2016 |
US Episcopal Church Bishop Douglas Hahn suspended for one year |
Episcopal Diocese of Lexington/Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 28-03-2016 |
Church leaders condemn latest atrocity against Pakistani Christians |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 28-03-2016 |
Hong Kong’s top Anglican rejects calls to give up Christian seats on body electing city’s chief executive |
Tony Cheung, South China Morning Post (HK) |
| 27-03-2016 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter Sermon |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 27-03-2016 |
‘The risen Jesus offers hope to all’: Archbishop Welby writes on meaning of Easter |
Lambeth Palace/The Mail of Sunday (UK) text |
| 27-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Ecumenical Easter Letter |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 27-03-2016 |
Anglican bishop backs Britain staying in European Union, praises EU’s peacekeeping role |
Jamie Doward, The Observer (UK) |
| 26-03-2016 |
Praying for Belgium in Sydney |
Kanishka Raffel, Sydney Anglicans |
| 25-03-2016 |
Chinese billionaire Wang Qinghui claims Darling Point’s Bishopscourt |
Lucy Macken, Domain |
| 25-03-2016 |
Easter Message from Archbishop Winston Halapua of Polynesia |
ACNS |
| 25-03-2016 |
Britain should resist ‘Trump culture’ of Islamophobic Twitter trolls, says newest Anglican bishop |
Ian Johnston, The Independent (UK) |
| 25-03-2016 |
‘On Good Friday terror and oppression are met by love’: Archbishop Welby's BBC’s ‘Thought for the Day’ |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 25-03-2016 |
‘It’s not about numbers, but human beings’ – Anglicans serve refugees in Cyprus |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 25-03-2016 |
Cathedral ‘indaba’ eases political tensions in Zambia |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and images |
| 25-03-2016 |
Good Friday ‘Messiah’ performance at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney, dedicated to the people of Belgium |
Russell Powell, Diocese of Sydney |
| 24-03-2016 |
Church of England wins first battle against ExxonMobil on climate change |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 24-03-2016 |
Christian women face double vulnerability due to gender and religion |
Julia Bicknell, World Watch Monitor |
| 24-03-2016 |
Don’t let extremists undermine our religious harmony, British PM urges |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 24-03-2016 |
Churches plead for a more humane response to refugee crisis |
Church Times |
| 24-03-2016 |
Queen breaks with tradition for Royal Maundy in her 90th year |
ACNS |
| 24-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Chaplain to be new Bishop of Dorking |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 24-03-2016 |
George Bell’s defenders say CofE must apologise for destroying his reputation |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 24-03-2016 |
We will not be ‘cajoled’ into accepting homosexuality, says African Archbishop |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 23-03-2016 |
Easter messages from Australia’s Christian leaders |
National Council of Churches in Australia transcripts |
| 23-03-2016 |
Pastoral staff a symbol of new life, says Tasmania’s new Anglican bishop Richard Condie |
Alex Luttrell, The Mercury (Hobart) |
| 23-03-2016 |
Resurrection and religious freedom: Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies’ Easter message |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans video and transcript |
| 23-03-2016 |
Self-service ministries for Anglican Church in Outback Queensland |
Ash Moore and Blythe Moore, ABC Western Queensland |
| 23-03-2016 |
‘No plans’ to change religious instruction in Queensland state schools |
Amy Remeikis, Brisbane Times |
| 23-03-2016 |
Sydney University Evangelical Union votes 71-1 against changes to controversial membership requirements |
Alexandros Tsathas, Honi Soit (University of Sydney students’ newspaper) |
| 23-03-2016 |
New Easter Passion film highlights battle against drug addiction |
Church of England media release |
| 23-03-2016 |
Church of England turns Jesus into drug addict |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) text and video |
| 23-03-2016 |
Easter 2016 message from US Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry |
Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs (US) media release and video |
| 23-03-2016 |
Primate urges rule of law in Brazil’s corruption crisis |
ACNS |
| 23-03-2016 |
Welsh churches unite in forum to safeguard children and vulnerable adults |
ACNS |
| 22-03-2016 |
Brussels pro-cathedral’s Chrism Eucharist an ‘act of defiance’ against terror attacks |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 22-03-2016 |
Cathedral’s ‘act of defiance’ against Brussels bombings |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 22-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury responds to events in Brussels |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 22-03-2016 |
Statement from the Anglican Communion delegation at 60th UN Commission on the Status of Women |
ACNS |
| 22-03-2016 |
Northern Territory Bishop Greg Anderson’s Easter Message 2016 |
Diocese of the Northern Territory |
| 22-03-2016 |
Anglican Church paid $80,000 to former Swan Homes resident over child sex abuse claims |
Danielle le Messurier, Perth Now (WA) |
| 22-03-2016 |
US bishop stands down for a period of ‘repentance, retreat and reflection’ |
Episcopal Café (US) |
| 22-03-2016 |
Safe Schools: NSW Premier Mike Baird defends Federal Government's review |
Eryk Bagshaw, The Age text, audio and video |
| 22-03-2016 |
Men and women divide on religion |
Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service (US) |
| 22-03-2016 |
Power of public witness: Churches prepare to take the Passion outdoors |
Pat McCaughan, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 22-03-2016 |
Stephen Fry's ‘God is evil’ interview shortlisted for religious award |
The Daily Telegraph (UK) videos and text |
| 21-03-2016 |
Tasmania's new bishop, Richard Condie, wants to rebuild trust in the Church |
Georgie Burgess, The Examiner (Launceston) |
| 21-03-2016 |
Sexual abuse survivor meets with Tasmania's new Anglican Bishop |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 21-03-2016 |
Malmsbury church celebrates 150 years |
Matt Crossman, Star Weekly (Keilor Park) |
| 21-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury announces new set of Lambeth Awards |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 21-03-2016 |
Leading rabbi, Muslim among recipients of new awards from Lambeth Palace |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 21-03-2016 |
Canadian Church outlines steps to implement UN Indigenous rights declaration |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 21-03-2016 |
'We need people-to-people transformation,' says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba |
Cape Talk Radio (South Africa) audio |
| 21-03-2016 |
Theological resources on persecution published for 16th Anglican Consultative Council meeting, in Lusaka |
ACNS |
| 21-03-2016 |
Bible-reading marathon for Irish diocese’s Year of Opportunity |
ACNS |
| 20-03-2016 |
Bishop George Bell’s naming as a paedophile is challenged today by a group of lawyers, academics, politicians and senior Church figures |
George Bell Group (UK) media release |
| 19-03-2016 |
Tasmania's new Bishop Richard Condie consecrated amid child sex abuse inquiry fallout |
ABC News text and images |
| 19-03-2016 |
Former Archdeacon of Melbourne Dr Richard Condie becomes Tasmania's 12th Anglican bishop |
Anglican Diocese of Tasmania text and image |
| 19-03-2016 |
Tasmanian Church welcomes new bishop |
Anglican Diocese of Tasmania media release |
| 19-03-2016 |
Sermon for the ordination and installation of Richard Condie as Bishop of Tasmania |
Peter Adam, Anglican Diocese of Tasmania transcript |
| 19-03-2016 |
Safe Schools: Victoria to defy Federal Government on anti-bullying program |
ABC News |
| 19-03-2016 |
Australian Christian Lobby registers Eternity House HQ as a separate not-for-profit |
Stephen Jeffery, The Age/Canberra Times |
| 19-03-2016 |
‘Bishop and Bible’: Sermon at the Episcopal Ordination and Installation of Richard Condie as Bishop of Tasmania |
Peter Adam, St David’s Cathedral Hobart, audio and text (including Order of Service) |
| 19-03-2016 |
BBC head of religion warns of ‘chronic lack of religious literacy’ in the UK |
Ian Burrell, The Independent (UK) |
| 19-03-2016 |
Church ‘wrong’ to name Bishop of Chichester George Bell a paedophile |
Patrick Sawer, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 19-03-2016 |
Anglican Centre in Rome marks 50 years of relations with Catholic Church |
Catherine Pepinster, The Tablet (UK) |
| 19-03-2016 |
Mennonites to worship online as last British church is forced to close |
Chris Green, The Independent (UK) |
| 18-03-2016 |
Help clergy build resilience, urges UK healthcare charity |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 18-03-2016 |
UN reports campaign of terror in South Sudan |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 18-03-2016 |
Interview: Rowan Williams, theologian, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge |
Church Times transcript |
| 18-03-2016 |
Episcopal Church’s first African-American leader, a gay marriage backer, focuses on race |
Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times transcript and images |
| 18-03-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop preaches during UN Commission on the Status of Women Eucharist |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) video and text |
| 18-03-2016 |
Syria a 'children’s crisis' five years on, charities warn |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 18-03-2016 |
Archbishops call for prayer for Burundi |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 18-03-2016 |
Anglican Centre in Rome celebrates half a century of reconciliation ministry |
ACNS |
| 18-03-2016 |
Irish Catholics and Anglicans unite for Saint Patrick’s Day service |
ACNS |
| 18-03-2016 |
Abuse case turns spotlight on to flawed CofE safeguarding practices |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 18-03-2016 |
Cathedrals and top taxpayers do well in UK Budget |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 18-03-2016 |
Paschal plans: Archbishop of Sydney on a common date for Easter |
Glenn Davies, Sydney Anglicans |
| 18-03-2016 |
Justice Goddard opens UK investigation into the Anglican Church |
Gavin Drake, Church Times (UK) |
| 18-03-2016 |
Abused law professor receives settlement from English diocese |
Church Times |
| 17-03-2016 |
Churches urge action from EU leaders on refugee crisis |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-03-2016 |
US Government declares Daesh persecution of Christians a genocide |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 17-03-2016 |
Communion women can help change sisters’ fate, says Anglican leader |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text and images |
| 17-03-2016 |
US bishops ‘troubled by the violent forces’ of political rhetoric |
ACNS |
| 17-03-2016 |
Canada’s ‘Anglican Journal’ denied access to Council of General Synod documents |
Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 17-03-2016 |
British Government's English Churches and Cathedrals Sustainability Review welcomed by CofE |
Church of England media release |
| 16-03-2016 |
Anglican bishop welcomes Royal Commission hearing in Newcastle |
ABC News |
| 16-03-2016 |
Lord Carey might have delayed investigation into church sex abuse for 20 years, inquiry hears |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 16-03-2016 |
UK’s Goddard inquiry to hold preliminary hearing on abuse linked to church |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 16-03-2016 |
Goddard Inquiry: Focus on CofE handling of abuse claims |
BBC News |
| 16-03-2016 |
Damning report reveals Church of England's failure to act on abuse |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 16-03-2016 |
Sex abuse public inquiry begins investigation into Church of England |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 16-03-2016 |
Conservative MPs angry after Safe Schools review finds program should not be scrapped |
Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald video and text |
| 16-03-2016 |
Perth Swan Homes orphanage abuse victims meet 70 years on |
Danielle le Messurier, Perth Now |
| 16-03-2016 |
Refugees face fresh challenges: Episcopalians in France step up response |
Matthew Davies, ENS video, text and images |
| 16-03-2016 |
CofE responds to British Government Budget announcements |
ACNS |
| 16-03-2016 |
‘Women build peace’ but their voices and stories have been ignored |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS text and images |
| 16-03-2016 |
Cumbrian vicar to run London Marathon |
ACNS |
| 16-03-2016 |
Why religious freedom matters |
Peter Kurti with Andrew West, ABC Radio National 'Religion and Ethics Report' audio and text |
| 15-03-2016 |
Young rider Olivia Inglis laid to rest after service at Randwick Anglican church |
Taylor Auerbach, The Daily Telegraph (NSW) video, images and text |
| 15-03-2016 |
Nigeria pleads for ‘special status’ for conservative Anglican Christians over homosexuality |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 15-03-2016 |
Archbishop Makgoba calls for renewed vision for South Africa |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 15-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's office criticised for 'ignoring' abuse complaints |
Martin Evans, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 15-03-2016 |
The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) will not participate in the upcoming ACC meeting: Archbishop Okoh's statement |
Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) transcript |
| 14-03-2016 |
‘An ordeal of the most grievous kind’ – Fiji cyclone update |
Mike Hawke and Lloyd Ashton, Anglican Taonga (NZ)/ACNS |
| 14-03-2016 |
CofE finds one million pages of documents about child sex abuse |
David Hencke and Tim Wood, Exaro (UK) |
| 14-03-2016 |
Anglican and Episcopal women at UN Commission on the Status of Women |
ACNS text and images |
| 14-03-2016 |
Alberta Anglicans urge engagement over divestment |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 14-03-2016 |
Queen calls for inclusiveness as she attends Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey |
BBC News text and images |
| 13-03-2016 |
Churches hold 'sanctuary training' for those wanting to shelter asylum seekers |
Helen Davidson, The Guardian Australia |
| 13-03-2016 |
Canadian Primate Hiltz: Why can’t Anglicans care about issues other than sexuality? |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 13-03-2016 |
Offer options to same-sex marriage vote, General Synod council asks Canada’s bishops |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 13-03-2016 |
Ample discussion needed before same-sex marriage vote, says Canadian Anglican working group |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 12-03-2016 |
Forgotten, not forsaken: Anglican Overseas Aid’s Easter Appeal 2016 |
Anglican Overseas Aid – Anglicord |
| 12-03-2016 |
ABM Good Friday and Easter Gifts 2016 put focus on health in Palestine and youth in remote Australia |
Anglican Board of Mission – Australia |
| 12-03-2016 |
Second African province announces Anglican boycott over LGBT controversies |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 11-03-2016 |
Sydney Anglicare-Anglican Retirement Villages merger synod delayed |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 11-03-2016 |
Bell-ringers from Australia and New Zealand in Bathurst |
Rachel Ferrett, Western Advocate (NSW) |
| 11-03-2016 |
UK magistrate sacked over religious opposition to same-sex couples adopting |
Owen Bowcott, The Guardian Australia |
| 11-03-2016 |
Archbishop Justin Welby on the EU, refugees, and religious violence |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 11-03-2016 |
Christian magistrate in England removed from office by Lord Chancellor |
Christian Concern (UK) |
| 11-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Congo steps down |
ACNS |
| 11-03-2016 |
Welsh churches to mark Earth Hour |
ACNS |
| 10-03-2016 |
African bishops to boycott meeting of Anglican council over Episcopal Church attendance |
Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service (US) |
| 10-03-2016 |
Indigenous bishops in Canada say they'll resist imposition of ‘Western’ cultural values |
Sue Bailey, The Canadian Press/Yahoo News |
| 10-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury speaks to British Parliament’s weekly magazine on EU Referendum, the refugee crisis and tackling religious violence |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 10-03-2016 |
Christians and Muslims protest against continued Dalit discrimination |
ACNS |
| 10-03-2016 |
Chinese Government accused of burning crosses in Christian crackdown |
CBS News (US) video and text |
| 10-03-2016 |
Burundi: Christians need to plant a seed of love in their hearts |
Anglican Church of Burundi/ACNS |
| 10-03-2016 |
Calls for peace in Burundi grow louder |
World Council of Churches |
| 10-03-2016 |
Gambia’s Christians unite for Day of Prayer |
Nelson Manneh, Foroyaa (Gambia)/ACNS |
| 10-03-2016 |
‘Australia's Spotlight’ takes on landmark sexual abuse case |
Garry Maddox, The Canberra Times |
| 10-03-2016 |
WCC supports new campaign against sexual abuse |
World Council of Churches |
| 10-03-2016 |
Bishops explain same-sex marriage statement to Canada’s Council of General Synod |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 09-03-2016 |
Australian fintech Activistic is tapping in to church donations |
Business Insider Australia |
| 09-03-2016 |
Anglican Church of Kenya will not participate in April’s ACC meeting in Lusaka: Archbishop Wabukala’s statement |
Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) transcript |
| 09-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Nigeria praises police after rescue of kidnapped church schoolgirls |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 09-03-2016 |
Archbishop Welby appoints new Chief of Staff and Strategy |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 09-03-2016 |
Pioneer female priest inducted into WA Hall of Fame |
Jill Burgess, Mandurah Coastal Times (WA) |
| 09-03-2016 |
Proclaiming the Gospel is ‘integral to being a Christian’ – Archbishop Welby |
ACNS |
| 08-03-2016 |
Church of England marks International Women’s Day 2016 with ‘Women Inspiring Women’ video stories |
Church of England videos and text |
| 08-03-2016 |
Operation Fiji Assist |
Andrew Nixon, Sydney Anglicans |
| 08-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury visits refugee camp in Rwanda |
Lambeth Palace images and text |
| 08-03-2016 |
US churches put focus on refugees this Lent |
Lynette Wilson and Ashley Wright, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 08-03-2016 |
China’s efforts to mould Christianity in its own image draw resistance |
Matt Moir, Religion News Service (US) |
| 08-03-2016 |
Future role of Canadian church in Cuba unclear, says Archbishop Hiltz |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 08-03-2016 |
‘We refer to the refugees as “guests”’ – in-depth update on European refugee crisis |
Max McClellan, United Society (UK)/ACNS |
| 08-03-2016 |
Hand of God? Scientific anatomy paper citing a ‘creator’ retracted after furore |
Nicola Davis, The Guardian Australia |
| 07-03-2016 |
Draft program for Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Lusaka published |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 07-03-2016 |
‘The only certainty in the world is Jesus Christ’ – Archbishop Welby speaks at New Wine conference |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 07-03-2016 |
Canterbury backs Christians in Sport initiative |
Lambeth Palace video and text |
| 07-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's call for Burundi ‘to forgive’ |
Caroline Wyatt, BBC News video and text |
| 07-03-2016 |
NSW Department of Education abandons second property deal, this time with Anglican Church, for overcrowded school |
Eryk Bagshaw, The Sydney Morning Herald text and video |
| 07-03-2016 |
Prayers offered after killing of nuns in Yemen |
ACNS |
| 05-03-2016 |
Notes on the Syrian exodus: ‘Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it’ |
Richard Flanagan, The Guardian (UK) text, video and images |
| 05-03-2016 |
‘These people are you and me’: Richard Flanagan meets Syrian refugees |
The Guardian (UK) video |
| 04-03-2016 |
Baton passes to Anglican Consultative Council over US Episcopalians’ status |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 04-03-2016 |
NZ churches open new unity dialogue |
Anglican Taonga (NZ)/WCC text and images |
| 04-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury begins three-day visit to Burundi |
Lambeth Palace media release and image |
| 04-03-2016 |
Archbishop Justin Welby and WCC visit Burundi |
ACNS |
| 04-03-2016 |
Easter returns to Dublin Cathedral |
ACNS |
| 04-03-2016 |
The grey ghost town and the camp in search of a soul |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 04-03-2016 |
Google technology opens new views of London’s St Paul’s Cathedral |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 04-03-2016 |
Churches host video hustings ahead of Welsh elections |
ACNS |
| 04-03-2016 |
Lord Sacks wins Templeton Prize |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 04-03-2016 |
Sabbath an ethic for change: Bishop Browning |
Canberra and Goulburn Anglican Community |
| 04-03-2016 |
Longest-serving vicar in Church of England celebrates 59 years in one parish |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 03-03-2016 |
Japan’s Anglicans call for end to nuclear power: ‘Fukushima was warning from God’ |
United Society (UK)/ACNS |
| 03-03-2016 |
Bishops split three ways over same-sex issue: Canada’s Primate Hiltz |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 03-03-2016 |
Senior Anglicans launch bid to find ‘middle way’ over homosexuality |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 03-03-2016 |
A Bible you can wear on your heart, sleeve or lapel |
Michele Chabin, Religion News Service (US) |
| 02-03-2016 |
Archbishop Welby recommissions World President of Mothers’ Union |
Lambeth Palace media release and photo |
| 02-03-2016 |
Can the Church still claim a moral authority? |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National, audio and text |
| 02-03-2016 |
Canadian bishops’ statement ‘an attempt to be forthright and honest’ |
Tali Folkins and André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 02-03-2016 |
Council ‘required’ to send marriage canon motion to 2016 Canadian General Synod, says Chancellor |
André Forget, Anglican Journal |
| 02-03-2016 |
Swaziland declares national emergency as drought intensifies |
ACNS |
| 01-03-2016 |
Moore College turns 160 as new building rises |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 01-03-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury urges more British Government support for unaccompanied children at Calais ‘Jungle’ camp |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 01-03-2016 |
Family’s sacred gift to church |
Jill Burgess, Mandurah Coastal Times (WA) |
| 01-03-2016 |
Canadian bishops’ statement ahead of Synod’s same-sex marriage vote |
Anglican Church of Canada/ACNS |
| 01-03-2016 |
Anglican Church of Canada now unlikely to agree to same-sex marriage |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 01-03-2016 |
Looking for Britain’s future leaders? Try Evensong |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 01-03-2016 |
New communications director for Anglican Communion |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 01-03-2016 |
Archbishops of York medieval records digitised |
ACNS |
| 29-02-2016 |
Churches are twice as likely to fear refugees as to help them: US survey |
Bob Smietana, Christianity Today (US) |
| 29-02-2016 |
Same-sex marriage motion 'not likely' to pass in Order of Bishops |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 28-02-2016 |
Anglican Church ‘not forcing its views on Madonna concert’ |
Rachel Au-Yong, The Straits Times (Singapore) |
| 28-02-2016 |
Campaigners tight-lipped over size of Christchurch Cathedral restoration fund |
Lois Cairns, The Press (NZ) |
| 27-02-2016 |
Christian student expelled for opposing gay marriage |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 26-02-2016 |
Australian Church too divided, says bishop |
Muriel Porter, Church Times (UK) |
| 26-02-2016 |
Father John Fleming suspended after SA Supreme Court judge finds he engaged in sexual behaviour with a minor |
Nigel Hunt, The Advertiser (Adelaide) |
| 26-02-2016 |
Canterbury and York call for ‘great wave of prayer’ for evangelism during Pentecost |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 26-02-2016 |
Episcopalians urged to take ‘gospel high ground’ after Primates’ action |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 26-02-2016 |
Ugandan churches call for reform after electoral failings |
ACNS |
| 26-02-2016 |
Canadian diocese sponsors Somali orphans |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada)/ACNS |
| 26-02-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry says he’s ‘reasonably back to normal’ after illness |
Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS |
| 25-02-2016 |
Father John Fleming ‘a criminal, moral coward’, SA Supreme Court rules |
Sean Fewster and Nigel Hunt, The Advertiser (Adelaide) |
| 25-02-2016 |
Prayers and money needed for Church’s Fiji cyclone response |
ACNS |
| 25-02-2016 |
Church of England activist for women receives CBE |
ACNS |
| 25-02-2016 |
Conservative Anglicans, Lutherans make progress in ecumenical dialogue |
Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post (US) |
| 24-02-2016 |
Fiji appeal opens in Sydney |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 24-02-2016 |
NZ Archbishops seek new refugee response – big quota, new pathways |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 24-02-2016 |
Independent review to shed light on Church’s handling of Peter Ball case |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 24-02-2016 |
English Church leaders order a review into the case of a vicar, abused as a teenager, by a bishop |
ITV News video and text (UK) |
| 24-02-2016 |
Church of England appoints panel to examine its role in Bishop Peter Ball abuse case |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 23-02-2016 |
Newcastle Bishop Greg Thompson ‘could not simply stand by’ as Sydney diocese acted against two bishops |
Joanne McCarthy, Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 23-02-2016 |
Queen Elizabeth speaks about God’s faithfulness |
ACNS |
| 23-02-2016 |
Malcolm Turnbull orders review of Safe School LGBTI program after right-wing pressure |
Matthew Knott and Judith Ireland, The Sydney Morning Herald video and text |
| 23-02-2016 |
Archbishop Ng Moon Hing’s sermon at installation as Anglican Primate of South-East Asia |
ACNS edited transcript/YouTube video |
| 23-02-2016 |
South Africa’s Anglican bishops move toward gay inclusion |
Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service (US) |
| 23-02-2016 |
Church of England already liberalised on sexuality, says Christian Concern |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 23-02-2016 |
Southern Africa Mothers’ Union boycotts Styrofoam |
ACNS |
| 22-02-2016 |
Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson voices concerns about a breakaway conservative movement |
Joanne McCarthy, The Newcastle Herald (NSW) |
| 22-02-2016 |
Cyclone Winston: Church responds to widespread damage in Fiji |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 22-02-2016 |
Cyclone Winston: ‘The only thing left... was to pray’ |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 22-02-2016 |
'Amazing wave of generosity' towards Syrian refugees in Wellington |
Solbin Kang, The New Zealand Herald video and text |
| 22-02-2016 |
Anglicans in NZ and Pacific to consider ‘Way Forward’ report on same-sex relationships |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 22-02-2016 |
Same-sex couples ‘full members’ of church but no change on marriage, say South African bishops |
Anglican Church of Southern Africa/ACNS |
| 22-02-2016 |
West Malaysian clergyman replaces eastern counterpart as South-East Asian Anglican Church head |
Malay Mail Online video and text |
| 21-02-2016 |
Manchester Christians are among least likely to attend church on a Sunday |
Patrick Scott, Manchester Evening News (UK) |
| 20-02-2016 |
Archbishop of York: Church of England's not changing on gay marriage |
Aaron James, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 19-02-2016 |
Sydney calls Special Synod on Anglican Retirement Villages/Anglicare merger |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 19-02-2016 |
Church petitions Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to let refugee baby Asha stay in Australia not sent to Nauru |
Bernie Dowling, Pine Rivers Press (Qld) |
| 19-02-2016 |
Bishop castigates Church of England’s ‘preferential option for the rich’ |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 19-02-2016 |
Churches’ Ebola response is model for responding to future epidemics |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 19-02-2016 |
West African bishops give Ebola briefing to Church of England Synod |
ACNS video and text |
| 19-02-2016 |
Synod votes to press on with Scottish talks, despite Episcopalian unease |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 19-02-2016 |
Irish Government makes U-turn on Easter closures of Dublin churches |
Gregg Ryan, Church Times (UK) |
| 18-02-2016 |
Human rights lawyer and priest Frank Brennan warns Turnbull marriage equality plebiscite could turn 'very nasty' |
Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian Australia |
| 18-02-2016 |
Primates’ ‘sanctions’ against Episcopal Church ‘fail to heal tear in fabric of Anglican Communion’: GAFCON leader |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 18-02-2016 |
Child sexual abuse law change brings hope for NSW survivor |
Chris Calcino, The Northern Star (Lismore, NSW) |
| 18-02-2016 |
Atheism has ancient roots and is not ‘modern invention’, claims new text |
Alison Flood, The Guardian Australia |
| 18-02-2016 |
Church of England Archbishops’ response to LGBTI activity ‘a missed opportunity’ |
Christian Concern (UK) |
| 18-02-2016 |
Mission to Seafarers supports jailed anti-piracy crew in bail bid |
ACNS |
| 18-02-2016 |
Anglicans have ‘unique role’ in eliminating malaria in Zambia, says bishop |
ACNS |
| 18-02-2016 |
In Uganda, Anglicans are casting out demons |
J. Lee Grady, Charisma News (US) |
| 17-02-2016 |
Religious leaders urge Malcolm Turnbull to drop plebiscite on marriage equality |
Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian Australia |
| 17-02-2016 |
‘Martyrdom is the ultimate witness to Christ’s truth’: Archbishop of Canterbury’s homily at Church of England General Synod |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 17-02-2016 |
No growth for 30 years, Church of England predicts |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 17-02-2016 |
Church life is fading fast in poorer communities, synod warned |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 17-02-2016 |
Church of England approves historic agreement with Church of Scotland |
Church of England media release/ACNS |
| 17-02-2016 |
Agreement with Kirk places the CofE ‘in a compromised position’ in relation to Anglicans north of the border, Scottish church leader warns |
David Chillingworth, Thinking Aloud blog |
| 16-02-2016 |
Archbishop Davies’ term extended in Sydney |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 16-02-2016 |
Same-sex marriage plebiscite: Christian lobby group wants 'override' of anti-discrimination laws during campaign |
David Taylor, ABC Radio ‘PM’ |
| 16-02-2016 |
Christian lobby seeks anti-discrimination 'override' for plebiscite campaign |
Judith Ireland, The Age video and text |
| 16-02-2016 |
Gay rights and same-sex marriage will dominate Church of England General Synod |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 16-02-2016 |
Church of Scotland Moderator’s address to the General Synod of the Church of England |
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) transcript |
| 16-02-2016 |
Church of England’s centuries-old teaching on marriage up for discussion |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 16-02-2016 |
Safety fears over Rising centenary force Easter Sunday closure of Dublin churches |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 16-02-2016 |
Evangelism is 'our duty, privilege and joy', Archbishop Welby tells CofE General Synod |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 16-02-2016 |
GAFCON Chairman’s Pastoral Letter: ‘The fabric of the Communion is still badly torn and there can be no true walking together until there is repentance…’ |
Eliud Wabukala, Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) transcript |
| 16-02-2016 |
Terror attacks spark school security review in Pakistan |
ACNS |
| 16-02-2016 |
Rolling the stone and breaking bread together in Egypt |
ACNS |
| 15-02-2016 |
Life in Abundance – ABM’s review of 2016 Anglican Conference on Mission and Evangelism at Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne |
Anglican Board of Mission Australia text and videos |
| 15-02-2016 |
Church of England defends pray tweet for atheist Richard Dawkins after trolling claims |
Daisy Dumas, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 15-02-2016 |
Fresh damage to NZ’s quake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral to be assessed |
The Press, Christchurch (NZ) |
| 15-02-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on Primates’ meeting in Presidential Address to Church of England General Synod |
Lambeth Palace transcript/Church of England video |
| 15-02-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop Michael Curry speaks on Primates’ statement |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and video |
| 15-02-2016 |
African churches could face ‘consequences’ for supporting criminalisation of homosexuality |
Harry Farley, Christian Today (UK) |
| 15-02-2016 |
Donating organs and blood is Christian duty, CofE synod to be told |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 15-02-2016 |
Pre-packaged Communion now available for priests |
Mark Molloy, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 15-02-2016 |
Richard Dawkins says stroke caused by stress over controversy |
Kimberly Watson, Religion News Service (US) text and audio link |
| 15-02-2016 |
Play depicting Jesus as a transgender woman shown in UK church |
Harry Farley, Christian Today |
| 15-02-2016 |
Research shines light on Indigenous-Anglican relations in Newfoundland |
Matt Gardner, Anglican Church of Canada/ACNS text and images |
| 15-02-2016 |
Church in Wales welcomes protection for country’s historic buildings |
ACNS |
| 15-02-2016 |
Cathedral’s arrow slits mystery deepens |
Sian Lawton, Ripon Cathedral (UK) |
| 14-02-2016 |
Sydney ordains 27 deacons |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 12-02-2016 |
Australian Anglicans consult on climate change |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 12-02-2016 |
Students 'angry and confused' over Archbishop Glenn Davies' comments on gender equality |
ABC News |
| 12-02-2016 |
Brisbane Grammar School won't refund child sex abuse victims' school fees |
Jorge Branco, Brisbane Times |
| 12-02-2016 |
Solomon Islands’ George Takeli is new Archbishop of Melanesia |
ACNS |
| 12-02-2016 |
Japan's great 2011 disaster remembered |
Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 12-02-2016 |
Church of England unveils logo for Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday |
ACNS image and text |
| 12-02-2016 |
Westminster’s Cardinal Nichols leads Hampton Court chapel vespers |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) text and images |
| 12-02-2016 |
Labour, social activism and God drive London vicar’s life |
Sebastian Murphy-Bates, Newham Recorder (UK) |
| 12-02-2016 |
WCC welcomes meeting of Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill for unity and peace |
World Council of Churches text and image/Vatican Television Centre video |
| 12-02-2016 |
Chase violence out of religion, urges Welby |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 12-02-2016 |
Clergy training shake-up may be disastrous, say English residential colleges |
Church Times (UK) |
| 11-02-2016 |
St Paul’s Cathedral to introduce first girls’ choir in nod to gender equity |
John Masanauskas, Herald Sun |
| 11-02-2016 |
Brazil’s Christians given Lent an environment focus |
ACNS |
| 11-02-2016 |
Ugandans urged to pray for elections on Archbishop Janani Luwum Day |
ACNS |
| 11-02-2016 |
Prayers urged as South African MPs debate state of nation |
ACNS |
| 11-02-2016 |
WCC convenes strategic meeting on sustainable development goals |
World Council of Churches |
| 10-02-2016 |
Why Britain should protect its Christian character |
‘Religion and Ethics Report’, ABC Radio National audio and text |
| 10-02-2016 |
Roman Catholic Vespers at Henry VIII’s Chapel Royal |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service text and images |
| 10-02-2016 |
Hampton Court's Chapel Royal stages first Roman Catholic service for 450 years |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 10-02-2016 |
Prince of Wales visits London church in celebration of community cohesion |
Gavin Drake, ACNS text and images |
| 10-02-2016 |
Judeo-Christian values replaced with golden calf of the self: Bishop Curry |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 10-02-2016 |
Episcopal Church won’t stop supporting gay marriage despite Anglican suspension, says bishop |
Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post (US) |
| 10-02-2016 |
God was 'vital for the development of civilisation' as we know it |
Sarah Knapton, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 10-02-2016 |
Brazil's churches respond to Zika virus through Lent campaign |
Anglican Alliance media release (in English) and video (in Portuguese) |
| 10-02-2016 |
Life in Abundance: An Anglican Conference on Mission and Evangelism |
Trinity College Theological School/University of Divinity video and text |
| 10-02-2016 |
Watch Ash Wednesday live on Facebook from Lambeth Palace |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 10-02-2016 |
Too busy for church on Ash Wednesday? Try Drive Thru! |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 09-02-2016 |
'Generational Struggle': Archbishop of Canterbury's Church of Ireland Theological Lecture |
Lambeth Palace transcript and image |
| 09-02-2016 |
St Paul’s music first: New Girls’ Choir |
St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne video, text and image |
| 09-02-2016 |
Christians are now a 'minority' in Britain like persecuted Roman Catholics during the Reformation, say top clerics |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 09-02-2016 |
First of 1000 refugees arrive in Italy through Humanitarian Corridors project |
World Council of Churches media release and image |
| 09-02-2016 |
Waitangi Day demonstrates ‘growing confidence in our nation’, says NZ Primate |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 09-02-2016 |
Life returning to normal after tribal tensions in Ethiopian region, says bishop |
ACNS |
| 09-02-2016 |
NSW-first Anglicare mobile food pantry to ease financial burden of poor in Sydney |
James Taylor, Canterbury-Bankstown Express (NSW) |
| 08-02-2016 |
‘Majority of Muslims seek to follow the way of peace,’ says Christian Muslim News Digest |
ACNS |
| 08-02-2016 |
Episcopal Church leader calls Anglican Primates’ censure ‘fair’ |
Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service (US) |
| 08-02-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop addresses National Press Club in Washington DC on creating a more inclusive society |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) video and text |
| 08-02-2016 |
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Message for Lent 2016 |
ENS video and transcript |
| 08-02-2016 |
Church of Ireland to mark Easter Rising centenary |
ACNS |
| 08-02-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury meets Northern Ireland's new First Minister during Belfast visit |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 08-02-2016 |
Statement from Bishop of Durham on George Bell |
Paul Butler, Church of England transcript |
| 08-02-2016 |
Archbishop Welby thanks Church of England’s Savings and Credit Task Group for ‘generous and unstinting work’ |
Lambeth Palace media release |
| 07-02-2016 |
Why some African governments are clamping down on churches |
Pumza Fihlani, BBC News video, text and images |
| 07-02-2016 |
Churches risk criminal charges to offer 'sanctuary' to refugees |
ABC Radio ‘Sunday Nights’ with John Cleary, audio and text |
| 07-02-2016 |
Brisbane cathedral backs 21st century sanctuary |
Jarrard Potter, The Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW) |
| 07-02-2016 |
New Anglican Dean of Sydney, Kanishka Raffel, installed at St Andrew's Cathedral |
Melanie Kembrey, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 07-02-2016 |
US professor who said Christians, Muslims share a God is leaving Christian college |
Camila Domonoske, National Public Radio (US) audio and text |
| 07-02-2016 |
Quebec Anglican diocese looks to secure future through ethical investing |
Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press/CTV News (Canada) |
| 06-02-2016 |
Religious education is being squeezed off the timetable in UK |
The Economist (UK) |
| 05-02-2016 |
Church ethos led to abuse failures: Jensen |
SBS/Australian Associated Press |
| 05-02-2016 |
Church ethos of ‘easy forgiveness’ failed to stop child sex abuse, says Peter Jensen |
The Guardian Australia/AAP |
| 05-02-2016 |
Former Sydney archbishop did not understand effects of sexual abuse on children, royal commission hears |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 05-02-2016 |
Church has no legal basis to offer asylum sanctuary: QC |
Mark Schliebs, The Australian |
| 05-02-2016 |
Perth churches open doors to deportees |
Angela Pownall, The West Australian |
| 05-02-2016 |
Gosford Anglican Church offers sanctuary to asylum seekers |
Cathy Stubbs, Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate (NSW) |
| 05-02-2016 |
Sydney’s St Andrew’s Cathedral wins Raffel |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 05-02-2016 |
Former Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen gives evidence to Royal Commission |
David Killick, The Mercury (Hobart) |
| 05-02-2016 |
Syrian political solution still needed, say charities in response to record aid pledges |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 05-02-2016 |
European Anglicans train to combat human-trafficking |
ACNS |
| 04-02-2016 |
Canadian church funds residential schools comic book study guide |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 04-02-2016 |
Brisbane Archbishop Phillip Aspinall denies his actions led to youth being abused by priest |
Selina Ross, ABC News |
| 04-02-2016 |
Cathedrals and churches around Australia offer sanctuary to asylum seekers families facing deportation to Nauru |
Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce/National Council of Churches in Australia media release |
| 04-02-2016 |
Australian churches offer sanctuary after High Court refugee setback |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 04-02-2016 |
Sydney Anglicans offer help on asylum seekers |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 04-02-2016 |
Churches become potential flashpoint after offering sanctuary to asylum seekers in wake of High Court verdict |
Adam Gartrell, The Sydney Morning Herald text/ABC Radio audio |
| 04-02-2016 |
Australian churches offer to take in asylum seekers |
BBC News |
| 04-02-2016 |
Churches offer sanctuary to asylum seekers facing deportation to Nauru |
Paul Farrell, The Guardian Australia |
| 04-02-2016 |
Former Anglicare SA chief executive failed to report abuse on solicitor's advice |
Selina Ross, ABC News |
| 04-02-2016 |
Victim describes how she was abused by Bishop George Bell |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 04-02-2016 |
Mission targets Church of England barriers to gay clergy |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 04-02-2016 |
Archbishop Aspinall denies sending boy to paedophile's bed, Royal Commission hears |
ABC Radio ‘PM’ audio and transcript |
| 04-02-2016 |
We won’t drag refugees out of church: Government |
The Australian/AAP |
| 04-02-2016 |
Churches outside the law when offering sanctuary to asylum seekers |
Michaela Whitbourn, The Sydney Morning Herald text and audio/visual |
| 04-02-2016 |
Gender transition services and same-sex weddings call for Church of England |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 04-02-2016 |
Prayers approved for Queen Elizabeth’s forthcoming 90th Birthday |
Church of England media release/ACNS |
| 04-02-2016 |
Mothers’ Union program reduces domestic violence in Uganda |
ACNS |
| 04-02-2016 |
New Anglican church building consecrated in Cuba after 84 years as mission outpost |
ACNS |
| 03-02-2016 |
Former church leaders apologise for abuse |
SBS/AAP |
| 03-02-2016 |
Former Governor-General Peter Hollingworth 'deeply sorry' over child sex abuse complaint mishandling |
Peta Carlyon, ABC News |
| 03-02-2016 |
Former Governor-General Peter Hollingworth apologises for his reaction to reports of child abuse |
Andrew Drummond, AAP/The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) |
| 03-02-2016 |
Bishop George Bell's victim: ‘He said it was our little secret, because God loved me.’ |
Joel Adams, The Argus (Brighton, UK) |
| 03-02-2016 |
Bishop of Chichester’s statement following survivor’s account of abuse by wartime Bishop George Bell |
Church of England media release |
| 03-02-2016 |
Head teacher mocked on Twitter for claiming evolution is not a fact |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 03-02-2016 |
Obama pleads for tolerance in first visit to US mosque |
Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service (US) |
| 03-02-2016 |
Americans’ views on Islam, Muslims divide by party lines |
Cathy Lynn Grossman, RNS |
| 03-02-2016 |
Indian Moderator demands end to caste discrimination |
ACNS |
| 03-02-2016 |
Anglican voices at UN Commission on the Status of Women |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 03-02-2016 |
Anglican human shields in Ethiopian conflict |
ACNS |
| 02-02-2016 |
Anglican ex-archbishop Peter Hollingworth was warned about paedophile, inquiry hears |
Peta Carlyon, ABC News |
| 02-02-2016 |
Royal Commission hears former Adelaide Archbishop Ian George slow to act on abuse complaints |
ABC Radio ‘PM’ audio and transcript |
| 02-02-2016 |
Hollingworth apologises to abuse victims at Royal Commission |
ABC Radio ‘The World Today’ audio and transcript |
| 02-02-2016 |
Tasmanian bishop faced resistance to child protection policies |
Andrew Drummond, The Mercury (Hobart) |
| 02-02-2016 |
Car crash sparked memory of Anglican abuse |
SBS/Australian Associated Press |
| 02-02-2016 |
Royal Commission hears senior Anglican Church official threatened Mark King, victim of paedophile Robert Brandenberg, with legal action |
Nigel Hunt, The Advertiser (Adelaide) |
| 02-02-2016 |
Nine NZ bishops say ‘no’ to euthanasia in submission to Parliament |
Anglican Taonga (NZ) |
| 02-02-2016 |
Nepal earthquake update from local Anglicans |
ACNS |
| 02-02-2016 |
Welcome for Anglican family’s new bishops |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 02-02-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See thanks Roman Catholic priest for historic gesture during Primates’ meeting |
David Moxon, St Columban’s Mission Society |
| 01-02-2016 |
Bishop apologises for not involving police |
9News.com.au/AAP |
| 01-02-2016 |
Royal Commission into child abuse told Tasmanian paedophile priest’s risk to children ‘not discussed’ |
Patrick Billings, The Mercury (Hobart) |
| 01-02-2016 |
Sexual abuse royal commission: Former Tasmanian bishop's sons made 'sore bottoms' joke about boys' society |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 01-02-2016 |
Anglicare Sydney and Anglican Retirement Villages plan merger |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 30-01-2016 |
More Anglicans now back gay marriage than oppose it, poll suggests |
BBC News |
| 30-01-2016 |
Anglican clergy could drop traditional dress in favour of casual clothing |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 30-01-2016 |
Anglican Communion Secretary-General’s perspectives on the Primates’ meeting |
Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Covenant, Living Church Foundation (US) |
| 30-01-2016 |
Church of England members back same-sex marriage: poll |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 29-01-2016 |
Royal Commission hears paedophile wants to protect Archbishop Aspinall |
‘The World Today’, ABC Radio audio and transcript |
| 29-01-2016 |
Paedophile suspected Anglican Church friend 'in cahoots' with other offenders |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 29-01-2016 |
Action call as 26 refugees drown off Greece |
ACNS |
| 29-01-2016 |
England-Scotland ecumenical agreement published |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 29-01-2016 |
Support for same-sex marriage grows among CofE laity |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 29-01-2016 |
Anglican talks on sexuality sometimes ‘painful’: Church of England official |
Antony Bushfield, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 29-01-2016 |
Pope Francis is drawing churches together out of ‘genuine love’: senior Anglican |
Mark Woods, Christian Today (UK) |
| 29-01-2016 |
French WWII honour for retired Irish priest |
ACNS |
| 29-01-2016 |
Church camera catches tornado fury |
NBC4 News (US) video and text |
| 29-01-2016 |
British PM Cameron turns down plea to take children crossing Europe alone |
Hattie Williams, Church Times (UK) |
| 29-01-2016 |
Dress-down Sundays: Church considers making clerical dress optional |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 29-01-2016 |
Rowan Williams: Care for creation is 'inextricably part of responsibility to the poor' |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 29-01-2016 |
Landmark report on historic Ecumenical partnership plans published |
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) media release |
| 29-01-2016 |
Statement re Columba Declaration and Growth in Communion – Partnership in Mission Report |
Scottish Episcopal Church (Anglican) transcript |
| 29-01-2016 |
Reform, sex talks, and Kirk on CofE’s Synod agenda |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times (UK) |
| 28-01-2016 |
Boys' club 'a sitting duck' for child sexual abuse, Anglican ex-priest and paedophile says |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 28-01-2016 |
Child sex abuse royal commission: Convicted paedophiles to give evidence at church youth group hearings in Tasmania |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 28-01-2016 |
Expert builder works magic on St Paul's Ipswich pipe organ |
Andrew Korner, The Queensland Times |
| 28-01-2016 |
NZ churches oppose physician-assisted suicide |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 28-01-2016 |
‘The Church of Ireland Gazette’ calls for blessings for same-sex marriages |
News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
| 28-01-2016 |
South Sudan bishops appeal for support as new areas hit by conflict |
Anglican Alliance/ACNS |
| 28-01-2016 |
Church of England launches primary school savings club |
ACNS |
| 28-01-2016 |
Way of the Cross on US-Mexico border |
ACNS |
| 27-01-2016 |
Melbourne’s St Paul’s Cathedral consults on Aboriginal memorials |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 27-01-2016 |
Royal commission into child sexual abuse to focus on Church of England Boys' Society |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 27-01-2016 |
Donald Trump will be 'very challenging' if he becomes US President, says Archbishop of Canterbury |
David Barrett, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 27-01-2016 |
The five most dangerous places to be a Christian |
Open Doors (UK)/YouTube video/ACNS |
| 27-01-2016 |
Child sexual abuse royal commission: Victim says he was abused 'because of' Brisbane Archbishop Phillip Aspinall |
Emilie Gramenz, ABC News |
| 27-01-2016 |
Persecution of Christians on the increase |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 27-01-2016 |
Syria and Iraq are the tip of the iceberg – global persecution of Christians more extreme than ever before says 2016 Open Doors World Watch List |
Open Doors: 60 years of serving persecuted Christians (UK) |
| 27-01-2016 |
Sydney diocesan statement to Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |
Diocese of Sydney transcript |
| 27-01-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury's message for Holocaust Memorial Day |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 27-01-2016 |
Archbishop Welby praises church action helping children learn about saving |
Lambeth Palace text and image |
| 26-01-2016 |
Pope Francis apologises for treatment of non-Catholic Christians |
ACNS |
| 26-01-2016 |
Bishop Christine Hardman of Newcastle second female CofE bishop to take seat in House of Lords |
ACNS |
| 25-01-2016 |
A Statement on Archbishop Foley Beach’s participation at Primates 2016 |
Anglican Church in North America media release |
| 25-01-2016 |
Protect the environment with a candlelit dinner, Christians urged |
Gavin Drake, ACNS |
| 25-01-2016 |
Bless your backpacks for a good school year |
The Advertiser (Cessnock, NSW) |
| 24-01-2016 |
Former SA Anglican archbishop Ian George to appear at sexual abuse royal commission |
Nigel Hunt, The Advertiser (SA) |
| 24-01-2016 |
We are the Church's 'new normal', says Britain's first female bishop |
Katie Grant, The Independent (UK) |
| 22-01-2016 |
Welby: Fixed Easter ‘in five-10 years’ |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 22-01-2016 |
Church of England safeguarding review suggests progress |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 22-01-2016 |
‘No religion’ is the new norm, survey of White British finds |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 22-01-2016 |
Bishops witness 'persecuted and beleaguered' Middle East Christians as Iraq’s oldest Christian site razed by ISIS |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 22-01-2016 |
Reactions pour in to the Primates’ pronouncements |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 22-01-2016 |
The Canterbury tale |
Church Times |
| 22-01-2016 |
Vicars should grow beards to reach out to Muslims, bishop suggests |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 22-01-2016 |
US Episcopalians step up anti-racism fight |
Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service (US) |
| 22-01-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury speaks at Davos on responding to extremism |
Lambeth Palace text/France 24/World Economic Forum video |
| 22-01-2016 |
Peace and security comes by doing things ‘with’ people, not ‘to’ them, says Archbishop Welby |
Gavin Drake, Anglican Communion News Service |
| 22-01-2016 |
Canadian Anglicans pledge $300,000 for displaced Syrians |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada)/ACNS |
| 22-01-2016 |
Primates' gathering ‘increased participation’ on climate change, religious violence: Canada’s Archbishop Hiltz |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 22-01-2016 |
Bishop George Bell – points on a complex case |
Gabrielle Higgins, Diocese of Chichester blog/Church of England transcript |
| 21-01-2016 |
Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on the Primates' meeting |
Lambeth Palace transcript |
| 21-01-2016 |
Middle East Archbishop Mouneer Anis’ response to Primates’ gathering |
Diocese of Egypt/Episcopal News Service transcript |
| 21-01-2016 |
Curry looks to the Anglican Consultative Council to respond to the Primates’ ruling |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 21-01-2016 |
Bones of Thomas Becket to return to Canterbury – via Hungary |
John Bingham, The Daily Telegraph (UK) |
| 21-01-2016 |
Pakistani Bishop pleads for prayer after university massacre |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 21-01-2016 |
Church in Wales appoints new provincial secretary |
ACNS |
| 21-01-2016 |
Real Easter Egg production moves to UK |
ACNS |
| 20-01-2016 |
Refugee crisis: churches and governments share responsibility |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 20-01-2016 |
Pakistan ‘under the terrible grip of terrorism’, says bishop after latest deadly attack |
ACNS |
| 20-01-2016 |
Brazil’s Anglican leader reflects on Primates’ actions in Canterbury |
Francisco de Assis da Silva, Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil/Episcopal News Service (US) transcript |
| 20-01-2016 |
Role of bishops explored in Nigerian retreat |
ACNS |
| 20-01-2016 |
For Baptists-turned-Episcopalians, Anglican disagreement feels familiar |
Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global (US) |
| 20-01-2016 |
WCC/UN conference calls for coordinated action on refugee crisis |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 20-01-2016 |
Despite controversy, Primates' meeting was a success, says Canadian church leader |
André Forget, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 19-01-2016 |
Primates' ruling is not binding, says canon lawyer |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times (UK) |
| 19-01-2016 |
Canada’s Anglican leader addresses ‘sharp criticism’ over Primates’ stance on US Episcopal Church |
Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 19-01-2016 |
Canadian Primate’s reflection on Canterbury gathering of the world’s Anglican leaders |
Fred Hiltz, Anglican Church of Canada transcript |
| 19-01-2016 |
Church of Ireland challenged by report on homosexuality |
Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today (UK) |
| 19-01-2016 |
St Gregory relic returns from Canterbury to Rome at start of Christian Unity week |
Vatican Radio audio and text |
| 19-01-2016 |
Dangerous ‘horror’ location transformed into refugee welcome centre |
ACNS |
| 19-01-2016 |
Churches map European migration |
ACNS |
| 19-01-2016 |
Church of England takes climate change fight to ExxonMobil |
ACNS |
| 19-01-2016 |
New church laws spur debate in Kenya |
Martina Schwikowski, Deutsche Welle (Germany) |
| 19-01-2016 |
Atheist seeks removal of ‘God’ from US currency — again |
Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service (US) |
| 18-01-2016 |
Anglican leaders chose to stick together in Canterbury, says NZ Primate |
Philip Richardson, stuff.co.nz |
| 18-01-2016 |
Primates support ecumenical moves over Easter |
Anglican Communion News Service |
| 18-01-2016 |
Archbishops reflect on Primates’ meeting |
ACNS |
| 18-01-2016 |
Youthworks develops new curriculum for Special Religious Education in NSW |
Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans |
| 18-01-2016 |
Uniting Church ministers face pension shock after being caught welfare crackdown |
Noel Towell, The Canberra Times |
| 18-01-2016 |
Charities in limbo for three years over $1.9 million estate |
Nathanael Cooper, Brisbane Times |
| 18-01-2016 |
German Interior Minister underlines churches' role in refugee response |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 17-01-2016 |
Christian churches close to deal to fix common date for Easter: Archbishop of Canterbury |
Nick Miller, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 17-01-2016 |
Church of Ireland Primate defends decision on US Episcopal Church |
BBC News |
| 17-01-2016 |
We will not allow thieves to use religion to steal: Kenya’s President Kenyatta |
Benjamin Wafula, Citizen Digital (Kenya) |
| 17-01-2016 |
Bishop of Waikato recognised for work in academia |
Radio New Zealand |
| 16-01-2016 |
Justin Welby says sorry to LGBTI community for hurt and pain caused by Anglican Church |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian (UK) |
| 16-01-2016 |
Archbishop Welby meets LGBTI protesters in Canterbury |
Belfast Telegraph video (UK) |
| 16-01-2016 |
Historic Tasmanian church given new lease on life after 135 years in Waratah |
Sallese Gibson, ABC News |
| 15-01-2016 |
Archbishop Justin Welby hopes for fixed Easter date |
BBC News |
| 15-01-2016 |
Anglican Church leaders suspend US Church over gay marriage |
BBC News video and text |
| 15-01-2016 |
UK Labour frontbencher quits Church of England over its views on homosexuality |
Harriet Sherwood and Rowena Mason, The Guardian (UK) |
| 15-01-2016 |
Anglican Communion to restrict US Church over gay marriage |
BBC News |
| 15-01-2016 |
Gay Christians protest outside Primates’ press conference |
Antony Bushfield, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 15-01-2016 |
Censure of US church will weigh on Canada, says Primate Hiltz |
Anglican Journal (Canada) |
| 15-01-2016 |
What the Archbishop of Canterbury told the Primates: ‘Without each other, we are deeply weakened’ |
Justin Welby, Church Times (UK)/The Vanguard (Nigeria) |
| 15-01-2016 |
US Episcopalians facing ‘not a sanction, but a consequence’, says Welby |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 15-01-2016 |
ACNA Primate was given ballot paper to vote on Episcopal Church |
Paul Handley, Church Times |
| 15-01-2016 |
Reactions to the Primates: Americans express their sadness, conservatives their doubts |
Madeleine Davies, Church Times |
| 15-01-2016 |
Primates issue full communiqué which includes condemnation of homophobia |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times |
| 15-01-2016 |
US Presiding Bishop’s video statement on Primates’ meeting |
Michael Curry, Episcopal News Service (US) video and transcript |
| 15-01-2016 |
Primates’ meeting press conference video |
Matthew Davies, ENS video |
| 15-01-2016 |
Welby apologises for persecution on the grounds of sexuality |
Matthew Davies and Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service (US) text, video and images |
| 15-01-2016 |
On the Primates’ meeting: A letter from the US Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies President |
Gay Clark Jennings, ENS transcript |
| 15-01-2016 |
Relationships in Christ are the ‘real instruments of unity’, American church leaders say |
Matthew Davies, ENS video and text |
| 15-01-2016 |
An initial statement from the Canadian Primate concerning the Primates’ meeting in Canterbury |
Fred Hiltz, Anglican Church of Canada transcript |
| 15-01-2016 |
Another drop in attendance ‘not a surprise’, says Bishop |
Tim Wyatt, Church Times text and images |
| 15-01-2016 |
Criticism for British PM Cameron's agenda on poverty |
Hattie Williams, Church Times |
| 15-01-2016 |
The moral dimension of climate change – and of courage to address it |
World Council of Churches media release |
| 15-01-2016 |
Dentist sued for harassing staff by constantly playing Christian music |
Leslie Caimi, The Washington Post (US) |
| 15-01-2016 |
Anglican Church avoids split over gay rights – but liberals pay price |
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Australia |
| 14-01-2016 |
Karachi’s bishop urges prayer after polio clinic bomb |
ACNS |
| 14-01-2016 |
Seafarers’ mission ‘horrified’ at anti-piracy convictions |
ACNS |
| 14-01-2016 |
Vicar: Churchgoer hurt in Jakarta attacks |
Aaron James, Premier Christian Media (UK) |
| 14-01-2016 |
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