A formal letter from the Pope to his church and an accompanying explanation from Cardinal Ratzinger, released just before the Lambeth Conference, upset many Anglicans and liberal Roman Catholics. The Pope reasserted articles...
Category: September 1998, World
The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund has sent $25,000 to help a drought- and war-stricken Sudan. That's in addition to the $25,000 it sent earlier this year. "The needs are so great there," says Elsa Tesfay...
Category: September 1998, World, PWRDF
Anyone in the world with Internet access can now peek into the cathedral where Prince Charles married Lady Diana, while avoiding the expense of travelling to London, England. Very Rev. John Moses, dean of St....
Category: September 1998, World
Mexican primate dies (ENS)--The first primate of the Anglican Church of Mexico has died at the age of 73. Retired Archbishop Jose Guadalupe Saucedo guided the church from a single missionary diocese of the United States to...
Category: September 1998, World
Church members support sailors An Anglican and United Church group is seeking support in their fight to prevent four Filipino sailors from the Maersk Dubai being forced to return to the Philippines by July 2. Two years...
Category: July 1998, World
Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace predicts that Zimbabwe will face civil unrest if President Robert Mugabe's government refuses to apologize publicly for atrocities and human rights abuses committed in...
Category: May 1998, World
ERITREA HAS BEEN within Ethiopia's sphere of influence for more than 3,000 years - but seven decades of Italian colonialism, combined with the authoritarianism of Ethiopia during the Cold War, have shaped its identity and...
Category: May 1998, World
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...
Category: May 1998, World
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...
Category: April 1998, World
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...
Category: April 1998, World