October 1, 2007 Trouble brews over gay issue

The General Synod of the Anglican province of Central Africa, which met in early September in Malawi, replaced the provincial dean because of his “pro-gay” and pro-American viewpoints, according to The Living Church magazine.

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October 1, 2007 The Darfur Response

The figures are startling for what has  been called “the forgotten war” – Darfur. The continuing conflict between the government of Sudan and the southern rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army began in 2004 and has,...

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October 1, 2007 Grin and bear it

A child displaced by fighting in Darfur, Sudan is weighed. The heights and weights of displaced children are carefully monitored at a nutrition and health centre in Kubum, which is sponsored by Action by Churches Together (ACT) International and Caritas. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund is an ACT partner. Please see p. 2 for more photographs of the ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response Operation.

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September 4, 2007 PWRDF invests in microcredit

Lapologa! The Sotho sign on the otherwise bare walls of a tiny watering hole in the neighbourhood of East Orlando invites neighbors to one of a handful of plastic patio tables and ‘refresh themselves’ with a cold drink.

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July 12, 2007 Investment turns ‘landowners into backyard entrepreneurs’

Lapologa! The Sotho sign on the otherwise bare walls of a tiny watering hole in the neighbourhood of East Orlando invites neighbors to one of a handful of plastic patio tables and "refresh themselves" with a cold drink.

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July 12, 2007 Program banks on South Africa’s ‘unbankable’ citizens

Dominated by a handful of major banks, South Africa’s advanced financial system allows any foreign visitor with a debit card instant access to cash at ATMs everywhere. Unfortunately, this first-class banking system is mostly inaccessible to millions of South Africans who live in deep poverty in squatter camps or informal settlements around the country. Officially, national unemployment hovers around 25 per cent, but actual figures are estimated to be much higher.

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July 3, 2007 Williams explains church’s failure to help Zimbabwe

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has spoken publicly about his failed attempts to use Anglican community resources in southern Africa to send food to starving Zimbabweans.

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March 1, 2007 Church repents for slave trade

The Church of England, in acknowledging its involvement in the slave trade, will take part in an act of repentance by thousands of Anglicans, including its spiritual head, planned for March 24.

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February 23, 2007 Archbishop Hutchison ‘discouraged’ by primates’ communiqué

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that he had been “profoundly discouraged” by the communiqué issued by Anglican leaders warning the U.S. church of consequences if it did not abandon its liberal stance on sexuality, and had found it “tempting” not to sign it.

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February 19, 2007 Anglican primates visit former slave market in Zanzibar

Primates of the Anglican Communion gathered Sunday, Feb. 18, for a eucharist at a cathedral built above a former slave market in Zanzibar, with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams praying for “forgiveness for the past, mercy for the present, and humility for the future.”

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