Calling it "offensive," African Anglican primates have dismissed a recommendation made by the Lambeth Commission that they apologize for having unilaterally provided pastoral care and oversight to conservative Anglican parishes...
Category: December 2004, Anglican Communion, Sexuality debate
On Oct. 18, the day the Windsor Report was released, Anglicans heard many voices reacting to it -- from those in favor of a church that fully includes homosexual members to those who believe homosexuality is a grave sin. But...
Category: December 2004, World, Sexuality debate, Anglican Communion, ECUSA
The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed Archdeacon Jim Boyles, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada, to a six-member Reception Reference Group that will prepare "an accurate and insightful briefing" on the...
Category: December 2004, Anglican Communion, Sexuality debate
Mordechai Vanunu was released from custody but placed under house arrest after 30 armed Israeli police stormed St. George's (Anglican) Cathedral in Jerusalem, and arrested him on Nov. 11. Mr. Vanunu, a convert to Christianity...
Category: December 2004, World, Middle East
"What's new in your religion?" "Is something new and exciting happening in your place of worship or religious community?" "How do you celebrate your faith?" It is not your local church posing these questions to the youth but...
Category: December 2004, World
London The Church of England will be "increasingly isolated and anachronistic" unless it accepts women as bishops, a house of bishops working party which looked into the issue of women in the episcopate has concluded. ...
Category: December 2004, World
The Anglican Church of Canada's general secretary, Archdeacon Jim Boyles, traveled to Boise, Idaho last month to thank the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) for its $250,000 US ($330,000 Cdn) gift in response to the...
Category: December 2004, World
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, expressed his regret upon the death of Yasser Arafat (pictured during a meeting in January) in a statement Nov. 11. He recalled his conversations with Mr. Arafat "and the abiding...
Category: December 2004, Middle East