Young members of Anglican representative body need longer terms: delegate
Attending a plenary session of the Anglican Consultative Council gives youth delegates the chance to listen to new perspectives. This youth delegate wishes she could serve a longer term.
Teens in Geelong helping earthquake victims in Türkiye and Syria
A month on from the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, here’s how one youth group is helping with relief efforts.
Earthquake emergency relief efforts focusing on shelter, warmth and food: Open Doors
“In situations of this scale, it’s prayer and a generous financial response that will make the difference,” Anglican Overseas Aid executive director Jo Knight said.
Same-sex marriage harms ministry in the Global South: Egyptian Archbishop
But a proponent of same-sex marriage says conservative views are holding back progressive Anglicans.
‘We all could have been Mahsa’: What’s driving Melbourne protestors
Community solidarity and support from public figures has driven the longevity of the worldwide protest movement over human rights that erupted after a young woman’s death under suspicious circumstances in Tehran, according to young Iranian Australian activists.
Big leap coming for Papua New Guinea’s Anglican theological college
TO ACCESS internet at Papua New Guinea’s only Anglican theological college, the principal must climb a palm tree and hold his phone in the air.
Australian aid vital in Pacific COVID-19 fight: Anglican Overseas Aid
THE entire Pacific region is at risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and new variants due to low vaccination rates, an Anglican organisation has warned.
Aid organisation keeping eye on new variant
By Chris Shearer 30 November 2021 IT REMAINS too early to tell if the Omicron COVID-19 variant will hit Anglican Overseas Aid’s project partners, but the organisation is monitoring the situation. AOA’s Church and Community Engagement coordinator Nils von Kalm said their International Programs Manager had told him on 29 November that there was no […]
Tricky times as churches navigate vaccine tensions
TENSION over vaccinations is marring relief at churches’ reopening in Melbourne and beyond, church leaders have warned.
Call for government to fulfil moral responsibility to refugees
ANGLICANS have called on the federal government to act with “justice, mercy and urgency” on two issues relating to its treatment of asylum seekers, with two motions passed by the annual synod.
