Delegates attending the first consultative conference for the Anglican Alliance in Nairobi have called for the Communion initiative to have as two of its key priorities the development of an Anglican Bank for savings and loans and a public education campaign on financial literacy and rights.
The overall impact of earthquake and tsunami according to the government has been:
· Death: about 13,200 people
· Missing: about 14,300 people
· Displaced: about 167,000 people
· Totally demolished homes: 52,800 homes
The Area Service will be held in Donard Parish Church on Tuesday 10th May at 8pm. Rev. Declan Smith will Celebrate the Eucharist and the Diocesan President Joy Gordon will give the address.
“Crosslinks Camps have built up over a number of years and they provide a safe, appropriate and fun environment within which children from whatever background may hear first class bible teaching, build strong Christian friendships and have exposure to godly older Christian role models. This year will be no exception”, say the organisers.
In the aftermath of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, a Christian network is joining with Buddhists to provide bereavement services to prevent suicides, according to a Japanese interdenominational network - writes Hisashi Yukimoto.
A pilot project that pairs retired clergy with small, under-resourced congregations is expanding its program to include five new dioceses, bringing the total number of participating dioceses to 14, according to an Episcopal News Service press release.
The Bishop of Borg, the Rt. Rev. Helga Haugland Byfuglien, has been appointed by the Minister for Church Affairs to be the Church of Norway’s presiding bishop. Bishop Byfuglien becomes the first permanent primate of the Church of Norway and also its first female leader.
Delegates from throughout Africa and from all other regions of the world opened the first consultative conference for the Anglican Alliance for Development, Relief and Advocacy in Nairobi last Monday 11 April.
A charity fundraising concert featuring Una Voce Choir and the South Ulster Sinfonia will be held at First Presbyterian Church (Non-Subscribing) in Crumlin on Saturday 14th May at 7.30pm in aid of the Save the Children’s Emergency Fund.
Handel's "Messiah" was first performed on this day in 1742. So, Hallelujah and all that.
A new report has been published looking at the use of Information and Communications Technologies for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace), with a Preface by Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Christopher Howse celebrates the anniversary of an unlikely bestseller
with the BBC Singers will be broadcast on Sunday 17 April 2011 at 8pm from St Paul's Knightsbridge, 32a Wilton Place, London SW1
This Wednesday at 2.00 pm The BBC Singers will perform music for Passiontide with the conductor Peter Phillips. Each of the three traditional Tenebrae services is represented with music from a different master of Renaissance polyphony. These darkly meditative Lamentations are heard alongside Lotti's well-known setting of the Crucifixus text.
This Good Friday, April 22nd, The Dublin Gospel Choir are putting on a very special concert that not only brings lots of cracking gospel music but also some very special guests in the form of Cathy Davey, Neil Hannon and Paddy Casey all performing songs with the choir for the first time in public.
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA, The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, believes in getting her Easter message out early. Last week the following was released.
US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton released the State Department's 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which mentions religious freedom abuses in China, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. On cue, Chinese police detained more than 100 Christians who tried to hold an outdoor prayer service on a bridge in Beijing, and a Christian was arrested for allegedly breaking Pakistan's draconian anti-blasphemy law.
The Diocese covers a large geographical area, taking in Counties Cavan, Longford, Leitrim, most of County Roscommon and much of County Sligo in the Republic and some parishes in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.
The Secretary General of The Anglican Communion Canon Kenneth Kearon has expressed his sympathy to Bishop Filadelfo Neto of Rio de Janeiro diocese following the murder of schoolchildren there.
Mission was on the agenda at Knockbreda Mothers' Union recently as the 'Kiwoko Four' informed the branch about their short term missionary work in Uganda.
Sexual, physical and emotional abuse not only devastates the victims but damages God’s mission, according to the spokesman of an Anglican network working to protect the vulnerable.
The World Council of Churches, the Conference of European Churches and the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe have expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in Libya.
The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has sent condolences to the UN, as it mourns the tragic loss of United Nations staff in Afghanistan in a violent response to the burning last month of a copy of the Qur'an in the state of Florida, United States.
Yesterday, The Chicago Consultation which advocates for the full inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Christians in the worldwide Anglican Communion, released a collection of essays and study questions on the proposed Anglican Covenant.
Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the early resignation of an "emotionally drained" bishop in Australia.
The World Council of Churches has expressed concern that the deteriorating situation in the West African country of Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) “is on the verge of inflaming religious conflicts.”
St. Andrew's Autism Centre (SAAC), a project of the Diocese of Singapore, is a comprehensive one-stop centre for autism care for children, youths and adults with autism, aged 7 to 55 years and beyond.
Roman Catholic charity Caritas has announced that its diocesan director in Abidjan, kidnapped by an armed group last week, has been released and is safe.
