December 1, 2001 Art used to fight stigma attached to leprosy

New Delhi Combating the stigma of leprosy is as important as fighting the disease, says a Christian organization in India which is trying a new form of therapy for those living with an infectious disease that has afflicted...

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October 1, 2001 Women in India gain under new divorce law

New Delhi An amendment to the Indian Divorce Act approved by the lower house of India's Parliament in August gives Christian women divorce rights equal to those of Christian men, churches say. Under the act, which dates...

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October 1, 2001 Archbishop appeals on behalf of refugees

Melbourne The Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne called on the government of Australia to set aside politics and take in 460 asylum seekers aboard the Norwegian ship Tampa. The refugees were rescued from a sinking...

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September 1, 2001 Solomons honour brotherhood

Honiara, Solomon Islands Members of an Anglican religious community who heroically stood between warring factions in the Solomon Islands and went on to monitor the peace process on the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal, have...

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September 1, 2001 Women bishops discussed

Brisbane The Anglican Church of Australia took up the subjects of women bishops, homosexuality, relations with Aboriginals and connections with the Lutheran and Uniting churches at its General Synod, held here in July. ...

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September 1, 2001 Fund for Aboriginals

Sydney (ENI) - The National Council of Churches in Australia's executive body has recommended the establishment of a "healing commission" and a national government fund to compensate or otherwise help Aboriginals who, as...

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September 1, 2001 Sydney bishop elected

Sydney (ACNS) - Canon Peter Jensen, principal of Moore Theological College, Newtown, Australia, was elected archbishop of the diocese of Sydney in early June. Bishop Paul Barnett, administrator of the diocese and president of...

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June 1, 2001 Archbishop named Governor General

Brisbane Australian prime minister John Howard in April appointed Anglican Archbishop Peter Hollingworth of Brisbane to the post of Governor General of Australia. The appointment was criticized as a...

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June 1, 2001 Archbishop Peers in the Solomon Islands

Honiara It some ways, it shows all the signs of being a country in extremis, a nation at the edge of self-destruction, on the verge of becoming to the South Pacific what Haiti is to the Caribbean. The economy, in the...

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April 1, 2001 Church's future in China has last bishop worried

China's last Anglican bishop, K.H. Ting, may be moving a bit more slowly these days, but at the age of 85 he has seen the most important developments in the life of the Chinese Christian church and he has deep concerns about its...

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