Anglican News Archives

An Anglican communion service for gay clergy members was apparently performed in Britain without the knowledge of top church officials. via The Post Chronicle

“In a society where we think of so many things as disposable, where we expect to be constantly discarding last year's gadget and replacing it with this year's model - do we end up tempted to think of people and relationships as disposable?”

THE leader of the world's Anglicans is hitting the video-sharing website YouTube for the first time on Monday to preach environmental awareness in his New Year message. via The Straits Times

“They were three priests dressed in their robes and three thugs. They started assaulting us starting with a senior member of the church Mr Nyamupingidza. I used my umbrella to fight back”

Herald Reporter THERE was chaos at the Anglican St Andrews parish church in Glen View 8 on Thursday evening when rival groups fought. via The Herald

“Rome will never allow a parallel church of the people that appears to challenge its authority.”

The Vatican thinks it has bagged the elephant with conversion to Catholicism of the former British prime minister Tony Blair on the eve of Christmas. via The Sydney Morning Herald

F or some time now, people have been asking me why I haven't written anything on the current--or, depending on your point of view, everlasting--crisis in the Anglican world. via Campus Life

“God brought us here for a divine reason and not just for the Kenyan community”

It was a joyous Christmas for members of Church of God of Prophecy. After five years of renting space at local churches, the Hispanic evangelical group celebrated the birth of Christ in its new church building ... via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

“When we threaten the balance of things, we don't just put our material survival at risk. More profoundly, we put our spiritual sensitivity at risk, the possibility of being opened up to the endless wonder by the world around us”

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has held mankinds greed responsible for endangering the environment. via AndhraNews

“And if peace is to be more than a pause in open conflict, it must be grounded in this passionate amazed reverence for others.”

The leader of the Church of England's is to turn his thoughts on Christmas Day to the need to take care of the Earth's environment. via Daily India

“Whatever he previously believed or did is a matter for individual conscience. The Vatican welcomed his decision 'with respect and joy', so if the Pope is welcoming it, it seems a little strange that some English Catholics are questioning it.”

Comments Tony Blair was challenged yesterday to explain his record on abortion, embryo testing and gay rights after announcing that he had converted to Catholicism. via Daily Mail

Catholic churchgoers now outnumber Anglicans for the first time since the Reformation partly due to the massive migration from Catholic countries, according to new research. via Guardian Unlimited

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism, British media reported Saturday. via PR-inside.com

“It leads to the language of expulsion and exclusivity, of extremism and polarisation, and the claim that because God is on our side, He is not on yours.”

Militant atheists who pour scorn on the Christian faith as "superstitious nonsense" have been denounced as the "new fundamentalists" by the most senior Anglican clergyman in Wales. via Louth Today

We look back at the the 2007 Top Religion Stories as selected by members of the Religion Newswriters Association. via WBEZ-FM Chicago

“Christmas is for the children”

Melbourne's Anglican Archbishop has used popular video-sharing website YouTube to call for a national inquiry into childhood in Australia. via XtraMSN Real Estate

A prominent Anglican priest was on Thursday given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to misappropriating almost half a million rands in donor funds. via Independent Online

“I'm going back to work tomorrow and I expect to walk into my office like it's business as usual”

Bishop John-David Schofield of San Joaquin, Calif., struck an urgent tone Dec. 8 when he urged his Fresno-based diocese to defect from the Episcopal Church. via Abilene Reporter-News

“No-one can accuse the Anglican Church of being behind the times”

THE next SMS you receive might have more meaning than some flirting from an admirer or gossip about a lucrative business deal. via News.com.au

If you have seen our sign and nice building and grounds on U.S. Highway 90 and are wondering just what an Anglican church really is, the following is a brief summary of our beliefs and practices. via Lake City Reporter

“The attacker was riding on a bicycle. He blew himself up at the ASC [army supply center]”

A suicide bomb attack near a Pakistani army camp killed two soldiers and three civilians today, hours before President Pervez Musharraf was due to lift a state of emergency. via Boston Globe

“Such meetings will not seek any predetermined outcome but will attempt to ease tensions and clarify options”

The archbishop of Canterbury said Friday he will not reverse his decision to exclude a gay U.S. bishop from joining other bishops at a global Anglican gathering next year. via Examiner.com

“I am fully aware that this is a topic of concern for many clergy and congregations throughout CANA and one that produces intense reactions”

As it continues to develop into a formal body, the group of congregations that left the Episcopal Church not yet a year ago over the issue of homosexuality is now part of a split over the issue of women as ... via WTOP

By Joseph Chiteza UGANDAN-TURNED-BRITON, John Sentamu, the Anglican Archbishop of York, who cut his dog collar live on BBC claiming he would only wear it if President Mugabe is no longer President of Zimbabwe ... via The Herald

“Our concern is that it in doing so they don't then oppress another group of people and behave in an inhumane way to another group.”

The leader of Australia's Anglican church has spoken out against Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“But our purpose is to gather here to worship God . . . and I'm thankful you are here.”

One day after the Diocese of San Joaquin became the first in the country to break ties with the Episcopal Church, the Rev. via Los Angeles Times

“There are continuing Episcopalians in the Diocese of San Joaquin who are anxious to work with the Episcopal Church leadership to do just that”

From "Matthew Davies" Date Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:18:13 -0500 Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife . Today's ELO Newslink includes: * TOP STORY - Presiding Bishop's Christmas ... via Worldwide Faith News

“Like so many things, the rules on this issue can be interpreted in many ways”

The Archbishop of York has dramatically cut up his dog collar on live television and says he won't wear it again until Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe is out of office. via BBC

“They have no notion of sexual orientation like we have today”

The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin voted Saturday to split from the main U.S. church because it ordains gay priests. via Gay news blog

“South Africa has got actually to wake up to the fact that people there are starving”

The Archbishop of York has pledged not to wear his dog collar until Robert Mugabe leaves power in Zimbabwe. via Grantham Today

TWO classrooms at Brisbane's prestigious private school Anglican Church Grammar were damaged when an overheated computer sparked a fire. via The Courier Mail

“No one ever conceived that the Episcopal Church would go off the rails as it has”

By Adam Tanner

FRESNO, California (Reuters) - A conservative California diocese appears poised to leave the U.S. Episcopal Church on Saturday in a historic split following years of disagreement over gays, women and other issues.

"This is the first time this has ever happened in Anglican history, at least in American Anglican history," Bishop John-David Schofield of the Diocese of San Joaquin told reporters on Friday. "This is the first time, I believe, that a diocese has finally said 'enough' in terms of the liberal theology of the Episcopal Church." Read more

From "Matthew Davies" Date Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:48:41 -0500 Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife . Today's ELO Newslink includes: * TOP STORY - Philippine military aid must ... via Worldwide Faith News

“If the San Joaquin diocese succeeds in taking its property, it would set a precedent that would affect not only the Episcopal Church but other churches that are similarly organized”

Headed into a critical vote, an Episcopal diocese in central California is poised to split with the national denomination over what its bishop sees as the threat of moral decay in the church. via KSL-TV Salt Lake City

“At the moment the losses we see as a result of the theft of lead are not at a level where we see premiums being affected.”

Insurance premiums for parishes churches in the region may go up next year in the wake of thefts of lead from historic buildings. via EDP 24

“I just feel a tremendous loyalty to this church, and I am confused about this situation”

Members of Christ Church in Savannah, Ga., after 87 percent of the congregation voted to split from the Episcopal Church. via HendersonvilleNews.com

“Glory to God and Peace on Earth". The convocation will mark the culmination of the WCC Decade to Overcome Violence. "I would expect a significant contribution from the Filipino people”

Face to face with violence and death, churches in the Philippines are helping to build peace in a country where armed conflict continues to rage, especially in the countryside. via Ekklesia Daily News

“People who have a track record, not of serving themselves and their closest associates, but of serving the country especially those people who are least able to help themselves ... That is a mark of true leadership”

South Africa needs leaders who deserve respect and trust because they have earned it, Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane said today. via SABC News

Retired Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a key figure in the South African resistance to Apartheid. via NowPublic

“This is not the time for complacency nor apathy”

Faith-based campaigners and religious leaders say churches should not relax their efforts to deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic despite UN figures showing a drop in the number of people worldwide living with the ... via Ekklesia Daily News

An Episcopal Church committee has released an interim report that reveals positive trends as well as concerns in declining membership and church conflicts. via Church Executive

“I think (she brought) a great revitalization in terms of the number of young people who have come through to be ordained”

Bishop Victoria Matthews will preside over her last service as head of the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton at All Saints' Cathedral this evening. via Edmonton Journal