February 19, 2007 Anglican leaders say U.S. church must bar same-sex blessings, election of gay bishops

Primates of the Anglican Communion have given the U.S. Episcopal Church until September 30 to “make an unequivocal common covenant” that its bishops will not allow same-sex blessings in their churches and that it would not consent to the election and consecration of a bishop living in a same-sex union “unless some new consensus on this matter emerges” across the Anglican world.

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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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February 16, 2007 7 conservative primates refuse to take communion with fellow leaders

Seven Anglican leaders who call themselves “Global South Primates” have boycotted a eucharist with their fellow primates calling it a “deliberate action” to show the “brokenness” of the Anglican Communion and their provinces’ “broken or severely impaired” relationship with the U.S. Episcopal Church.

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February 16, 2007 Episcopal church response to Windsor was ‘adequate,’ says monitoring group

The U.S. Episcopal Church’s response to the Windsor Report’s call for a moratorium on the consecration of gay bishops has been “adequate,” primates of the Anglican Communion meeting in Tanzania have been told by a sub-group, whose members include Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

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February 15, 2007 Primates' meeting begins with all at the table

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has lamented that while he and other primates currently meeting in Tanzania have seen stark images of poverty in the capital Dar Es Salaam their discussions will not focus on improving the lives of the poor but on divisions over human sexuality. “I am going to a meeting with a gospel of hope and a preferential option for the poor and we are debating who is in and whom we are going to keep out,” said Archbishop Hutchison in a blog, or Internet diary entry, to young Canadian Anglicans at www.generation.anglican.ca

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January 26, 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury to meet with Canadian bishops

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will make his first visit to Canada as Archbishop of Canterbury with a visit to the April meeting of the Canadian house of bishops in Niagara Falls, Ont.

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January 17, 2007 Primates' meeting likely to be difficult

The 38 primates of the Anglican Communion have yet to meet in Dar Es Salaam, but events leading up to the meeting scheduled Feb. 14-19 already indicate that it will be a tough one, particularly for Katharine Jefferts Schori, the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA).

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January 1, 2007 Archbishop urges education to fight HIV/AIDS

Christians have the responsibility to help those who have been ravaged by HIV/AIDS and to educate themselves and others “so as to avoid further spread of the infection,” Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said in a statement...

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December 1, 2006 Opportunities for church in China are ‘enormous,’ says Williams

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said he believes that in some regions in China the percentage of the population attending church on Sundays is as large or even larger than that in most western European countries.

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December 1, 2006 Anglican urges freedom in dialogue with Rome

The chairperson of the governors of the Anglican Centre in Rome, Bishop Stephen Patten, has invited the Roman Catholic church to allow more freedom of expression in theological dialogue. “Catholics say Anglicans do not have a clear enough structure on authority, and I agree that there are areas it ought to be better. But I also believe the Catholic church should exercise its authority in a much more collegial way,” said Bishop Patten, the Anglican bishop of Wakefield in England. “Many Anglicans would be pleased to have a central figure – just like the Pope – in the church, but they want its role to be more collegial also.”

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