Anglican News Archives

“Our state needs students who train to be a tradespeople as much as we need those who study for the professions”

EAST Queensland's private schools have topped the state list in last year's senior school rankings. via News.com.au

"What you have been about and what I have been about these last months, weeks, days, even hours is not really about building a new diocesan structure," Lamb said during his sermon. via Worldwide Faith News

“Gene is here". "Some people found out I wasn't getting an official invitation [to the Lambeth conference] and they were outraged. So they had these made up. I figure if you can't have fun with this you might as well stay home.”

It is fitting that Bishop Gene Robinson spent much of his Easter enduring the wintry conditions of the Great North Woods of New Hampshire, performing his ministry to small but loyal congregations. via Guardian Unlimited

“Jesus placed a special value on children and their protection”

AN ARCHBISHOP yesterday warned that today's emphasis on child protection must not eclipse the responsibility of communities to care for their children. via Eircom.net News

Rowan Williams, Anglican Primate of all England, shocked Britons recently, stating that because many Muslims don't "relate" to the British legal system, "constructive accommodation with some aspects of shariah ... via National Post

Ontario's premier has been reprimanded by Canada's Anglican primate for jailing six Indian leaders in a mining land dispute, Toronto media reported. via Daily India

The 400-strong congregation had to evacuate the cathedral Norwich's Anglican cathedral had to be evacuated midway through an Easter service as candles set off fire alarms. via BBC

“The Bill will allow new avenues of scientific inquiry to be pursued which could greatly increase our understanding of serious medical conditions affecting millions of people throughout the UK.”

Anglican anger over embryos The Church of England has weighed in to the controversy over human embryos. via 96.7 & 97.5 Ocean FM

“We're really delighted with the interest and participation, we get an enormous cross-section here.”

Big attendances were reported at Easter Sunday church services across Brisbane yesterday, with the historic Cathedral of St Stephen full to overflowing for the morning's Catholic masses. via News.com.au

“This resurrection to new life is not about what happens to us when we die”

Australians remembered the true meaning of Easter today, flocking to church services around the nation. via The West Australian

A Canadian judge has deferred ruling on property rights for three breakaway Ontario Anglican parishes, allowing them to celebrate Easter, Toronto media said. via UPI

A decision on who has the right to three Anglican breakaway churches was put under reserve on Thursday. via Canada.com

“This year, we as a nation have been summoned to a new beginning in our relationships with the first people of our land”

Praise for apology to stolen generation Reconciliation very Christian and powerful This Easter heralds new beginning RECONCILIATION and forgiveness are the central themes of this year's Easter messages from ... via News.com.au

“Although the complete outworking of that agreement is not yet achieved, the progress that we have seen in the establishment of durable community structures and renewed opportunities for community harmony seem little short of miraculous”

Today's attendance of Queen Elizabeth and the Catholic Primate of All Ireland in Armagh's Anglican cathedral will be greeted as a "miracle" of the peace process in the North. via Irish Independent

“There are moments when treating unity as kind of absolute virtue that's higher than anything else is not necessarily the right thing”

Schism is not a "catastrophic" event and is preferable to placating those who do not treat gays as equal simply for the sake of unity, a Canadian Anglican theologian says. via National Post

Anglican Bishop of Durham, England Nicholas Thomas Wright is Anglican Bishop of Durham, England. via On Faith

A Church of England vicar who was fired after he had an affair with a married woman has lost his appeal against losing his position in North Yorkshire. via The Post Chronicle

A Canadian bishop who is part of a high-level advisory group to the worldwide Anglican Commission has been confirmed as having been elected Bishop of Christchurch. via XtraMSN Real Estate

“I think it was a mistake, a mistake because, above all, one has to ask what type of Sharia. And then, it was a bit naive”

The Vatican's top man for relations with Islam on Tuesday criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury as mistaken and "naive" for suggesting that some aspects of Sharia law in Britain were unavoidable. via Reuters UK

“The essence of the charge is the claim that MacBurney is prohibited from ministering within the geographical territory of another Episcopal diocese even if the church to which he ministers is no longer affiliated with The Episcopal Church.”

A retired bishop of the west-central Illinois Episcopal Diocese of Quincy is being brought up on charges he violated church law by performing confirmations at a San Diego church without the local bishop's ... via Journal Star

“Wherever it thinks it can get support it shoves its nose. But the people will not be fooled by religious charlatans like Kunonga.”

Gilbert Mhangwa shakes his head dejectedly as he walks away after turning up for a service at Harare's Anglican Cathedral, only to find the entrance blocked by a gang of youths. via Sunday Times

The third Inter-Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission has published its final report, "Communion, Conflict and Hope: the Kuala Lumpur Report" Since the 1998 Lambeth Conference, Anglicans have had reason ... via WebWire

“I have been in considerable pain.”

The first openly gay Episcopal bishop announced he will have no official role in a meeting this summer of world Anglican leaders, saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had ... via Post-Standard

Last week the Bishop of Shrewsbury visited Ellesmere College for the Installation and Licensing Service of Revered David Slim as the new Ellesmere College Chaplain. via Private School News

The new Bishop of Waiapu is David Rice, who is currently the Dean of the Anglican Cathedral in Dunedin. via XtraMSN Real Estate

A Christchurch vicar has been gagged over debate surrounding the city's next Anglican bishop. via Newstalk ZB

MORE people are filling pews in Anglican churches in south-east Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. via This is Hampshire

“Parishioners have the absolute right to choose where they wish to worship -- what they don't have is the right to take the building with them”

The Anglican Church of Canada padlocked a Toronto church whose congregation voted to go elsewhere over same-sex marriages, the Toronto Star reported. via Daily India

“You work hard at producing these publications that communicate what the local church is doing.”

ECCLESIASTICAL newshounds have been praised for their parish magazines. Praise has been heaped on their work by the judges of the Most Improved Parish Magazine contest organised by the Anglican diocese of ... via This is Hampshire

“We are not attending the forthcoming Lambeth (Conference)”

A mass boycott of the Anglican Church to the 10-year gathering is imminent following sharp criticism of the church's leadership by leading clerics in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria Rwanda and Australia. via Daily Nation

An independent Anglican Church tribunal today reserved its decision over whether to defrock a convicted paedophile priest. via The West Australian

- The Anglican diocese of Niagara is in a Hamilton court Friday seeking joint custody of two parishes that have voted to break away from the church.

Diocese lawyer John Page asked the court to allow the two groups to share the churches so both can conduct Sunday services for an interim two-week period.

But Superior Court Judge James Ramsey ruled that out.

On March 20, the court will be asked to make a broader ruling on use of the churches and the administration of funds.

While the two groups agreed on a number of issues during tense negotiations this week, the issue of building ownership remains. Read more