May 1, 2008 Growing and coping in Sudan

It is mid-morning on a Sunday in late March. The hot, equatorial sun is already warming up the day and still, an hour before the church service begins, the songs of praise are already rising above the enormous tree that provides shade to the hundreds of worshippers gathered below.

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May 1, 2008 Virginia court rules against diocese in church property cases

Church deposes dissenting bishops

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May 1, 2008 Lambeth meeting shows its Canadian roots

On Sept. 20, 1865, the provincial synod of the United Church of England and Ireland in Canada at a meeting in Montreal, passed a memorial that became a first step that led to what is now the Lambeth Conference, the decennial gathering of Anglican bishops from around the world.

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May 1, 2008 Cartoonist’s role at meeting of bishops a bit sketchy

Something exciting is happening at the upcoming Lambeth Conference and it won’t be the usual mano a mano over the place of homosexuals in the church. Rather, the animation will come from Church Times cartoonist Dave Walker, noted...

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May 1, 2008 No ‘quick fix’ for country’s problems

One of the lessons that a delegation of church leaders has learned from a recent visit to Sudan is that after 21 years of civil war, there is “no quick fix” available for Africa’s biggest country, said Rev. Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

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May 1, 2008 Education is key as Sudan moves to ‘culture of peace’

Sudan appears to be a country in waiting. Waiting for a crucial census that will clarify for the first time since 1993 the population figures in the north and the semi-autonomous south Sudan.

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May 1, 2008 Election sign of hope for united church

The Episcopal Church of Sudan, which recently elected Bishop Daniel Deng Bul of the diocese of Renk as its next primate (national archbishop), has been divided in recent years. The split came about after Gabriel Roric Jur, bishop...

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May 1, 2008 Traveler’s Notebook

TOO COOL: From the air, the roofs of Sudanese houses look like tiny coolie hats. The traditional huts are made of mud, clay and grass with thatched roofs; they can be round, square or rectangular, and are called tukuls...

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May 1, 2008 Republic of the Sudan

Area: 2.5 million sq. km.; the largest country in Africa; about the size of Ontario and Quebec combinedCities: Capital: Khartoum /Omdurman, Port Sudan, Juba (capital of South Sudan), Wau, Rumbek, YeiPopulation: (2005 est.): 39.3...

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May 1, 2008 About Sudan

Anglican Journal editor Leanne Larmondin travelled to south Sudan from March 26 to April 3 with an international, ecumenical delegation representing the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the All Africa Conference of Churches....

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