The Church Commissioners have today published their full Annual Report and Accounts for 2011, announcing a 2.9 per cent total return on their investments during 2011 and confirming the fund’s strong long-term performance.
[Episcopal News Service] Services will be held May 11 and 12 for the Rev. Canon Thomas Wilson Stearly Logan, Sr., 100, associate priest of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia, who died May 2.
The following motion was passed by the General Synod of the Church of Ireland meeting on 12th May at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin:
On Saturday, 12th May 2012, at the 22nd Session of Synod, The Most Revd Bolly Lapok, the Archbishop of the Province of South East Asia announced that The Right Revd Rennis Ponniah has been appointed the Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Singapore.
As the Church in Brazil prepares for Rio + 20, a resource pack is being released today, for Anglicans to use round the world on Rio Sunday June 3rd.
ResPublica has announced the launch of a new research project: ‘Re-Imagining The Church of England: Social Action and Civic Role’. Supported by a number of senior bishops in the Church of England, the project will explore the role and value of the established Church for communities and the national political sphere in Britain today.
By David Dishneau, AP in The Huffington Post
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland is offering forgiveness and a funeral service for a homeless man who killed himself after fatally shooting a priest and church secretary last week.
From the Bristol Uganda Link website
This Pentecost a well known gospel choir from Uganda will be touring the Diocese of Bristol, sharing their music and stories of faith. The tour will coincide with the arrival of the Olympic Flame in the region and with the Chippenham Deanery Mission – Flame of Hope.
London, 8 May [ENInews] A group of faith leaders announced on 8 May in London's St. Paul's Cathedral that a new pilgrimage to Canterbury is planned for this summer to protest unjust economic systems in the 21st century.
The Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, and Kgosi Leruo T Molotlegi, King of the Royal Bafokeng Nation, will this week present proposals for a new initiative, called ‘Winds of Change’, in Addis Ababa at the Africa Summit of the World Economic Forum.
The Alexandria School of Theology is pleased to announce that its 2012 Summer Institute will be held in Cairo June 25-30. This year the topic is "Muslim-Christian relations in light of the 2011 Revolution".
The Anglican Church of Kenya recently hired an archivist, Mr. Julius Dondi to assist in re- establishing the archives to international records management standards.
The winning design for a dramatic new chapel for Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral has been revealed.
Commenting on today's publication of the report by the Joint Committee on the Government's Draft House of Lords Reform Bill, the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Rev Graham James said:
"The longstanding position of the Church of England is that the key test of Lords reform is whether it will serve parliament and the nation better. The Joint Committee has found that the Government's proposals fall short of meeting that test.
Norwich Cathedral the biggest interruption to a service may be a lost tourist. But in Zimbabwe, from where the Dean of Norwich, the Very Rev Graham Smith, has returned, police wielding batons and armed with tear gas threaten Anglican sermons.
Some of the Queen’s more remote subjects are hoping to strengthen links with Malvern in the run-up to the Diamond Jubilee.
Editors note: This story was updated at 2:12 EDT May 7 to include funeral information and other details.
[Episcopal News Service] The third victim in the May 3 shootings at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City, Maryland, has died.
Archbishop Jeffrey Driver has welcomed the introduction of the Federal Government’s Community Placement Network initiative to temporarily house asylum seekers in Australian family homes.
After 12 years of it creation, the Diocese of Esan, Anglican Communion finally dedicated a Bishop’s Court at the weekend in Ekpoma, Edo State , amidst jubilations and fun-fair.
