Services and events
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, spent some time at a church and community mobilisation project in the heart of Kenya which had chosen to focus on food security as a shared vision for the community.
The Government and the Church have a collaborative role in tackling social ills and economically empowering communities, President Mwai Kibaki has said after a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Thousands of Australians marked World Refugee Day (June 20) on June 19 by rallying to demand an end to mandatory detention of asylum seekers. The turnout was sparked by a backlash against a federal government plan to deport 800 boat arrivals to Malaysia as early as next week as a "swap" for the resettlement of 4,000 refugees from Malaysian detention centres.
The Primate of the Church of Uganda has called upon President Yoweri Museveni to crack down on government corruption.
Church leaders in Nigeria have urged the government to act swiftly in combating terror attacks on Christians.
The Rev. Catherine Dawkins made history in early June when 1Z0-301 exams she became the first woman to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East during a service at St. Christopher's Cathedral in Manama, Bahrain.
Members of an Anglican church in Normandy, Northern France, have voted to support a plan to move their place of worship and to develop facilities in their new location.
A years-long property battle between the Anglican Church of Canada and conservative dissidents in Vancouver appears to be over, with the ACC winning the day.
The Right Rev. Michael J. Hanley, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, plans to march in Portland's annual Gay Pride parade. He'll be accompanied by Episcopalians who support gay and transgender rights.
Allowing same-sex couples to marry could lead to the acceptance of polygamy and incest, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, has warned accordin to a report in The Sydney Morning EX300 exam Herald.
The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) has appointed Mr Nicholas Speller as its new Head of Finance and Administration.
On Sat 25 The Cantando Choir, directed by Orla Barry, will perform a concert of 'Midsummer Melodies' in Whitechurch Parish Church,Dublin at 8.00pm. The concert will include music by Rutter and Chilcott.
The Pipeworks Festival including the Dublin international Organ Competition is underway - 17–25 June in Cork, Louth, and Dublin
In the wake of yet more big jolts in Christchurch, Bishop Victoria Matthews says she fears her clergy are facing “exhaustion of spirit”.
Summer Madness is "Ireland's Premier Christian festival", which currently takes place at the Kings Hall Complex, Belfast, N.Ireland, over the first weekend in July every year.
The Anglican Alliance has launched a food campaign targeting G20 and African governments in the run-up to this month’s meetings on the global food crisis.
The Minister of State at the Department for Education, Sarah Teather, has issued the following statement on the review of the commercialisation of childhood which was chaired by Reg Bailey, Chief Executive of the MU.
Islam is part of a modern, changing Germany and necessary to develop a vibrant society, President Christian Wulff said in a panel discussion at the recently concluded Kirchentag
The work of the Episcopal Church in several states hit by recent tornadoes is faith inspiring.
The Royal School of Church Music (Republic of Ireland) committee's forthcoming 'Come and Sing' event which was to be held on Saturday, 11 June in Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, has been cancelled.
Germany’s biggest Protestant gathering, the Kirchentag, has ended in Dresden with a call for the country’s nuclear power plants to be phased out by 2017 and to be replaced by renewable sources of energy.
The 16 Anglicans who were illegally arrested in Zimbabwe last week for resisting eviction and protecting their homes from intruders associated with a rival church have been released on bail following a failed attempt by local police to embellish the details and augment the charges brought against them.
David Leigh will perform Francis Pott’s Christus in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, on Thursday 23rd June at 8.00pm as part of the 2011 Pipeworks Festival.
The World-wide President of the MU, Rosemary Kempsall, shared this sad news in her blog last week.
Leaders and members of the Mothers’ Union in Ireland will be travelling next week to Edinburgh for the their Annual General Meeting on Thursday, which will be held in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall.
The Mothers' Union has been involved in the organisation of the UK National Day of prayer for church based toddler groups being held on Sunday 5th June
Sixteen church-goers have been arrested and priests have been turned out of their homes in Zimbabwe’s Diocese of Harare – where the Anglican Church is facing persecution at the hands of an ex-communicated bishop.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has named Diocese of Lexington Bishop Stacy F. Sauls as chief operating officer for the Episcopal Church.