July 29, 2008 Bishops, spouses hold joint session: Lambeth looks at violence against women

Bishops and their spouses attending the Lambeth Conference held a joint session Tuesday to discuss what a Maori Anglican theologian called a “grave, grave issue” that has not been addressed enough by the Anglican Communion – the abuse of power and violence against women.

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July 29, 2008 ‘In an age of fear, let us be agents of hope,’ chief rabbi urges bishops

Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the Commonwealth, Monday night urged Jews, Christians and other faith communities to show the world another facet of religion – not one of conflict but of hope and blessing.

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July 29, 2008 Lambeth’s resident cartoonist captures lighter side

From the first time the world’s Anglican bishops began meeting every 10 years (beginning in 1867), this year’s Lambeth Conference has featured a cartoonist-in-residence.

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July 28, 2008 Proposal calls for moratorium on same-sex blessings and gay ordinations

The Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) Monday presented the world’s Anglican bishops with a proposal to create a pastoral forum that would create a “safe space” for conservative Anglicans who have left their churches. It also recommended a “future” and “retrospective” moratorium on same-sex blessings, the ordination of openly gay homosexuals and cross-border interventions by provinces.

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July 28, 2008 Lambeth Conference: Interfaith dialogue a new reality in 21st century world

The world changed dramatically after 9-11. So, too, have the relationships between churches of the Anglican Communion and other faiths, with inter-faith dialogue now figuring in their agenda like never before. That was the conclusion of the world’s Anglican bishops gathered here on Monday.

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July 28, 2008 At Lambeth: Sexuality placed on Thursday's formal agenda

The world’s Anglican bishops attending the Lambeth Conference here do not fully grapple with the thorny issue of human sexuality until Thursday, July 31, but if informal conversations in the last week are an indication, they could be headed for some turbulence.

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July 26, 2008 Caring for the environment ‘a moral imperative,’ says bishop

Anglican bishops gathered here for the Lambeth Conference are preparing a statement expressing their concern for the devastating effects of climate change which they say are affecting the world’s poorest countries the most and urging churches to advocate for the environment as a moral imperative.

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July 26, 2008 Robinson will not be asked to resign by presiding bishop

U.S. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Saturday said it would “not be in my purview” to ask Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire, to resign as suggested by the primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, who said such an act would save the Anglican Communion from falling apart.

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July 26, 2008 Bishops, spouses sing during photo sessions

It took nearly 30 minutes to get them organized and 15 minutes to get photographed for posterity, but the nearly 600 spouses of Anglican bishops gathered here for the Lambeth Conference sang, laughed and, in all, seemed to have a grand time as they either sat or stood under the heat for their official photograph at 10:30 this morning.

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July 26, 2008 Anglican-Catholic dialogue will continue despite ‘issues’

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster Friday assured Anglican bishops gathered here that while the current crisis over homosexuality within the Anglican Communion have slowed the progress of Anglican-Roman Catholic relations, his church is still committed to the ecumenical dialogue begun 40 years ago.

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