A new book entitled The Extra Mile has being launched at the General Synod in Armagh this week. It is designed to help churches find new and imaginative ways to serve practical needs in their local community.
15 May 2011
The General Synod of the Church of Ireland meeting today in Armagh voted in favour of the following Motion on the Anglican Covenant: ‘Seeing that the Anglican Covenant is consonant with the doctrines and formularies of the Church of Ireland, the General Synod hereby subscribes the Covenant.’
13 May 2011
An estimated 2 billion people around the world tuned in on April 29 to watch the historic royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, a ceremony infused with British pageantry and steeped in elements of Anglicanism – past, present and future.
29 April 2011
“Rejoice in their wedding and wish them the best” urges Archbishop as the Royal Wedding of William and Kate approaches.
28 April 2011
Speaking in a short film the Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the sense of hopefulness and generosity which lie at the heart of marriage, and what this also tells us about the ‘mystery’ and ‘delight’ which can be found in this life-time commitment.
21 April 2011
Bishop Suhail Dawani and his wife Shafeeqa, who is the co-ordinator of Women's Work in the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East, met with the Committee for Women's Work in the Episcopal Church in Amman, Jordan on Thursday, March 31st, 2011.
18 April 2011
Speaking at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Irish Council of Churches in the Island Civic Centre, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole, told representatives from 14 different churches that, "secularism is not an anti-religion idea".
18 April 2011
The heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem have come out against the Israel’ government’s denial of a residency permit in the city to the Anglican (Episcopalian) bishop Suheil Dawani.
12 April 2011
New guidance aimed at preventing sham marriages in the Church of England is being sent to clergy and legal officers by the House of Bishops. The guidance has been agreed with the UK Border Agency and was today approved by Immigration Minister Damian Green.
12 April 2011
By Anna Morrell, Archbishop's Media Officer, Church in Wales.
Help to make church a friendlier place for children and young families is the aim of a new website packed with resources for Sunday School leaders and playgroup organisers.
12 April 2011