The Anglican Alliance has welcomed the report from the International Development Select Committee which recommends the UK Government to reconsider its decision to cut its aid programme to Burundi.
There have been a number of people who have held the organ scholarship at St Mary's Cathedral, Peter Barley writes. In recent years this has included Duncan Brickenden and Michael Young, who held the position for the past five years or so.
The Kansas natives already impressed with their five-song EP earlier this year. Now Samestate are looking forward to the release of their first full-length album The Alignment on February 28.
The former Dean of Dunedin has been sentenced to three years, two months’ imprisonment for fraud by a New Zealand court.
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The stand off at St Paul’s Cathedral has resulted in one of the most high profile resignations in the Church of England in modern times. The Chancellor of St Paul’s, Canon Giles Fraser, would be regarded as a modern prophet in the proper Biblical use of the word “prophet”, as being one who under God detects where God is at work amongst society.
The cross "is not for crusades but a sign of God’s love embracing everybody", the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches has said at a major interfaith meeting. The Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit was speaking yesterday at a gathering in Assisi called by Pope Benedict XVI.
A great obstacle to a just peace today is the high level of unemployment among young people all over the world, says Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches. This is the text of a speech given at a meeting convened by the Pope in Assisi to mark the Day of Reflection, Dialogue and Prayer for Peace and Justice in the World on 27 October 2011.
Nobel Laureate and retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has defended the Presbyterian Church (USA) decision to accommodate the ordination of practicing homosexuals.
One of the original nominees in the Diocese of New York bishop coadjutor election has withdrawn her name less than a week before the diocese is due to vote.
Faith groups in East Africa are offering counseling and aid to victims of sea piracy off the coast of Somalia, primarily in the Indian Ocean from the Gulf of Aden in the Arabia Sea to the Eastern Indian Ocean near the Mozambique Channel.
Leaders have called for respect for human rights in Libya; Roman Catholic adviser cautiously optimistic that democracy will come to the country
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The annual award ceremony for the Down and Dromore and Connor Organ Scholarships took place during a recent service of Choral Evensong in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.
After last year’s King Of Nations and 2009’s No Shout Too Loud, Newday are back with a live album that’s stronger than ever.
Ten years after tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed by falling rubble from the World Trade Center towers, church leaders have reached an agreement to rebuild at Ground Zero, Religion News Service reports.
Severe flooding and mudslides caused by tropical rains throughout El Salvador have affected about 150,000 people, cut off dozens of communities and resulted in almost 40 deaths. It has been described by Anglican Bishop of El Salvador Martin Barahona as "a catastrophe unparalleled by other disasters" in the country in recent history.
Regrettably lax morals and democratic government are not strange bed-fellows, or confined to a single country.
The Rev. Becca Stevens, author, Episcopal priest and social entrepreneur, has been named by the White House's Office of Public Engagement as one of 15 "Champions of Change" for her pioneering work with Magdalene/Thistle Farms, a residential community and social enterprise she founded to serve women who have survived prostitution, addiction and abuse.
The Royal School of Church Music’s (RSCM’s) annual Dr Harold Smart Composition Competition has been won by David Manners. His setting of a text by Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith is called Llangarron, and was chosen from a record field of entries.
As their numbers grow, Latinos are not only changing where and how they worship; they're also beginning to affect the larger Christian faith.
Every Purpose Under the Heaven, a new 45-minute oratorio by Howard Goodall is to be premiered in Westminster Abbey, London on Remembrance Sunday, 13 November.
The US State Department partly blames the deteriorating situation on the Afghan government's failure to protect Christians
Young Coptic Christians stood in silent tribute Sunday night at Cairo’s Abbasseya Cathedral, mourning the violent deaths of 27 and wounding of hundreds in what is increasingly being referred to as the Maspero Massacre — as Egyptian army units opened fire on a peaceful protest march last week.
On Thursday last cities across North America, Europe, and Asia including Hong Kong and China were united voluntarily, cross-culturally, racially and inter-faith, as overnight queues at last gained access to Apple shops simply to buy the latest i-Phone.
Worship Academy Ireland is due to begin in January 2012 and its endeavours have been commended by The Rt Revd Harold Miller, Bishop of Down and Dromore and President of Summer Madness.
St Michael’s Mothers’ Union, Castlecaulfield, (Armagh) recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of the branch with a special service on St Michael’s day, when the preacher was the Rt Rev’d Ken Clarke, Central Chaplain to the Mothers’ Union.
Liturgy and Music will call for church to reflect on marriage. The Episcopal Church would spend three years using a rite for same-gender blessings and studying its application under a resolution that the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music has agreed to propose to the 2012 meeting of General Convention, reports Rev Mary Frances Schjonberg of Episcopal News Service.
Zimbabwe's high court has ruled in favor of the Anglican Church in the case Anglican hospital staff who were evicted by deposed archbishop, Nolbert Kunonga according to the Anglican Journal but it may be just for show: