To save the land and its people, Episcopal Bishop of Haiti Zach Duracin in 1995 requested the Anglican Church of Canada to assist the diocese in opening a university that would teach agriculture. A visitor coming to Haiti by air first sees the barren brown hills and how mountain streams carry the soil into the valleys and into the Caribbean sea. Less apparent as one lands in Port-au-Prince and yet an inevitable consequence of this, are the large numbers of peasants who gravitate to the slums of the capital where they join the uneducated and unemployed who are already there.
02 May 1997
About 10 men and women from Outrage, an extremist gay and lesbian activist group, scaled the walls of Lambeth Palace on Sunday (April 20) to disrupt a photocall being held in the palace gardens. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd George L. Carey, was escorting dozens of bishops and other church leaders around the grounds at a press photocall for the St Augustine's Seminar, the preparatory meeting for the Lambeth Conference 1998.
21 April 1997
The Lambeth Conference 1998 is scheduled to be the largest ever. The truth about a great production is to link the big picture alongside the drama of everyday life. This has been particularly true of recent Hollywood movies be it the playing out of an invasion from outer space as in Independence Day, the tragedy and sacrifice of war in the English Patient; the greed and profit in modern sport Jerry Mcguire, the capacity to win out against prejudice and disability as in the Australian movie Shine.
20 April 1997
The Middle East, the Holy Land, the home of our faith and still home to more than 10 million Christians, is poised on the brink of an uncertain future. Its people are searching for a future that could be based either upon the hope for justice and loving coexistence or one that will bow to past antagonisms and an endless cycle of violence and discord.
11 April 1997
Churches around the world will be asked to cooperate in an international effort to put an end, from the year 2001, to the 400-year-old split over the date of the most important celebration in the Christian calendar, Easter.
11 April 1997
More copies of the Bible are still being printed than any other book, according to United Bible Societies (UBS), based in Reading, England. According to the UBS's report on Bible distribution in 1996, the 124 national Bible societies around the world distributed "530 659 106 Bibles, New Testaments, Portions and Selections and New Reader materials".
11 April 1997
The Rev Timothy Lawes, a Church of England priest, moved to northern Sweden last year with his Swedish wife, Maria. He writes of the ways the Porvoo Agreement is being implemented in his community:
21 March 1997
An extensive Anglican-Lutheran Ecumenical Bibliography is now available through the Anglican-Lutheran Society. The 33-page document, the first of its kind ever produced, includes 525 items. They date from the 16th century to the present time.
21 March 1997
At its meeting in Panama in October 1996 the Anglican Consultative Council expressed its support for a World Council of Churches (WCC) Petition on Climate Change. On Sunday 2 March, this WCC petition was handed to the President of the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was meeting in Bonn, Germany.
21 March 1997
As Primates of the Anglican Communion, gathered in the Holy City, Jerusalem, the Mother City of our Christian faith, we join with the Christian leaders in the Holy Land in a call for peace, justice and equality for all people. Of particular concern for us is the status of Jerusalem, a place sacred to the three great world religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam
18 March 1997