At the same time as some Orthodox churches are threatening to desert the World Council of Churches, the eighth assembly of the council has endorsed creating a new forum that could extend its ecumenical reach far beyond its...
Category: January 1999, World, World Council of Churches
The Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women has been a failure, and more work is needed, says a group that gathered to celebrate the decade's conclusion and plan for the future.
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro,...
Category: January 1999, World, World Council of Churches
Bishop's wife killed Berta Sengulane, the wife of Bishop Dinis Sengulane of Mozambique, was killed in a car accident in November. Mrs. Sengulane was in the car with her husband and two sons, travelling to Beira,...
Category: January 1999, World
Priests cross sexuality traits
(ENI)--Surveys of Anglican clergy suggest that British priests share personality traits traditionally associated with the opposite sex, with male priests showing above average levels of...
Category: December 1998, World
The savage killing of a gay Episcopalian university student in Wyoming has led to renewed calls for anti-hate laws and an appeal from the president of Integrity in the United States to cease using the "language of hate." ...
Category: November 1998, World
The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches appealed for hope in the global ecumenical movement during a recent visit to Canada, in the face of controversy and discontent within the movement. Konrad Raiser was in...
Category: November 1998, World
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Fifty years after the declaration was published, systematic torture, cruelty, injustice and...
Category: November 1998, World
A group of young people feared their trip to Honduras in July was over before it started, says the youth co-ordinator of a church in a Montreal suburb. Four adults and six teenagers from St. Michael and All Angels Anglican...
Category: November 1998, World
Ads were Alpha's Alpha is taking over the Church of England - at least according to the CBC. Newsworld ran a story recently about a £1-million ad campaign the church had launched. All the ads were about Alpha, a popular...
Category: November 1998, World
When Helen Parker went to work at a health centre in Kenya run by the Anglican Church, she couldn't understand why more villagers weren't coming in. Sheila Elbourne is a former Volunteer in Mission. Here she...
Category: October 1998, World