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UN Observer Addresses ACC-10

UN Observer Addresses ACC-10

With his employers looking at a budget crisis in the next few days, the Anglican Observer at the United Nations used a hi-tech multi-media presentation to back his impassioned plea to support his ministry among the world's diplomats. 

30 October 1996

ACC: Secretary General Issue Millennium Challenge

ACC: Secretary General Issue Millennium Challenge

OCTOBER 11, 1996 - PANAMA CITY, PANAMA - Anglicans from around the world began a 10-day meeting here to help develop a vision for the church in the third Christian millennium. With more than 80 members of the Anglican Consultative Council represent bishops, priests and deacons and lay people from the 36 major branches of the Anglican Church. It has met every three years since 1971.

22 October 1996

ACC Takes Stand on Rwanda

ACC Takes Stand on Rwanda

Trusting in God's reconciling power, and giving thanks for signs of repentance and spiritual renewal within the Episcopal Church of Rwanda

22 October 1996

ACC: Ecumenism Remains Imperative, Anglicans Told

ACC: Ecumenism Remains Imperative, Anglicans Told

Ecumenism is an inseparable part of the mission of the church to spread the Good News about Jesus Christ, a group of worldwide Anglican Church delegates was told recently.

19 October 1996

New Leadership for Anglican Consultative Council

New Leadership for Anglican Consultative Council

A Tanzanian bishop who is a former Minister for Education in the Tanzanian Government is the new Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council. The Right Reverend John Paterson, Bishop of Auckland in the Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia was elected ACC Vice-Chairman in a series of closely contested ballots on 14 October.

 

15 October 1996

ACC: Thousands celebrate Anglican Communion in Panama

ACC: Thousands celebrate Anglican Communion in Panama

City traffic was brought to a standstill in Panama City today, 13 October, when 2,500 members of the local Anglican Church joined delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in a kilometre long procession through the streets to the Gimnasio Nuevo sports hall. 

13 October 1996

Address by John L. Peterson, Secretary General to the Tenth Meeting of the ACC

Address by John L. Peterson, Secretary General to the Tenth Meeting of the ACC

What a great joy it is for me finally to stand before you after being in office for almost two years. What a great privilege it is to meet the appointed members of the Anglican Consultative Council from around the Anglican Communion. I have been waiting a long time for this day and I am thrilled it has finally come.

12 October 1996

Sermon at the Opening Eucharist (Cathedral of St. Luke, Panama City, Panama) of the ACC

Sermon at the Opening Eucharist (Cathedral of St. Luke, Panama City, Panama) of the ACC

You shall not make for yourself any other idol, for God is spirit, the spirit and the ground of all beings, which is love. The creation is an expression of his great spirit of love. We live in a world of love. Therefore you shall not dishonour the name of the Lord your God. God is the ground of our being. Our beings are grounded in love. God is love and love is God.

10 October 1996

ACO: Episcopal Appointments

ACO: Episcopal Appointments

Episcopal Appointements from around the Communion.

07 October 1996

ACO: WCC and Plans for Millennium

ACO: WCC and Plans for Millennium

The World Council of Churches will not join in an "unholy competition" with other Church bodies to mark the new millennium, the WCC's General Secretary, Konrad Raiser, said at a press conference in September.

07 October 1996