May 1, 1998 World briefs

Itinerant Teds Church of Ireland youngsters are being invited to get themselves little teddy bears, to be named Anglican Ted, and arrange for them to visit as many dioceses and countries in the Anglican Communion between May 1...

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April 1, 1998 Eucharist ruling fuels new debate

Should lay people be permitted to celebrate the eucharist? The answer to that question, posed recently to an ecclesiastical court of the Anglican Church of Australia, could cause another rift in the worldwide Anglican...

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April 1, 1998 Tension eases after S.A. talks

The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. Njong-onkulu Ndungane, emerged from his meeting with President Nelson Mandela on Thursday Mar. 5 encouraged that the air had been cleared, following reports that the President...

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April 1, 1998 Church leaders cry out for help

Nairobi Kenya's church leaders have called for the United States and Britain to bring pressure to bear on the Kenyan government to ensure that the recent tragedies in Rwanda, Burundi and Somalia are not repeated in Kenya. ...

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April 1, 1998 Trial beats temptation in prayer

LONDON (ENI) Conservative lay members of the Church of England have failed in their bid to keep a traditional form of the Lord's Prayer as the church's leading version. An alternative version approved by the church's...

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April 1, 1998 Jewish financier wins Templeton prize

New York Sigmund Sternberg, a 76-year-old Jewish businessman who chairs the executive committee of the International Council of Christians and Jews, has won the 1998 Temple-ton Prize for Religion. The award for achievement in...

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April 1, 1998 World Bank and world's faiths promise to work together

London The World Bank and the world's major religions are to establish joint working groups on development issues, it was announced today at the end of a two-day dialogue at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's...

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April 1, 1998 Take pro-gay stand or else, Tutu warns

Cape Town The World Council of Churches must take a positive stand on homosexuality at its next assembly in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, if it wants to remain credible, according to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Archbishop...

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April 1, 1998 Child 'slaves' trek to talks

London Children are travelling to Geneva, on foot and using other forms of transport, from as far away as Brazil, South Africa and the Philippines in a campaign to stop the abuses of child labour. Four children, with adult...

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April 1, 1998 Ministers get plastic credit

(ENI) -- A credit card company, a bank and a missionary organization in Argentina are launching a credit card for ministers and missionaries. Visa, Argentina's Mercantile Bank and the Manantial Missionary Cooperative have ...

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