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First Meeting of IAWN Provincial Links and Steering Group

Happy are those who saw and were adorned with your love! For we also shall surely live. Ecclesiasticus 48:11 This reading at Evening Prayer appropriately set the scene for the first meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council’s International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN) held at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York, 22–27 February 2009. This is the first time Provincial Links and the Steering Group have been able to meet since its formation in 1996...

02 March 2009

First woman bishop appointed in Victoria, Australia

First woman bishop appointed in Victoria, Australia

The Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier, has announced the appointment of Canon Barbara Darling as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne.

25 April 2008

Anglican Women around the Globe speak out on poverty and Women's Empowerment

Anglican Women around the Globe speak out on poverty and Women's Empowerment

While worldwide attention is focused on discord and divisions within the Anglican Communion, Anglican women and girls are uniting to make their voices heard on issues of poverty and women’s empowerment

17 April 2008

Women’s network strategizes for Lambeth

Women’s network strategizes for Lambeth

Domestic violence, women in leadership, and women's access to technology--these are a few of the issues that the International Anglican Women's Network (IAWN) would like to discuss with bishops and their spouses at the Lambeth Conference

16 April 2008

Archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy Appointed Australia's First woman Bishop

Archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy Appointed Australia's First woman Bishop

The Archbishop of Perth, The Most Reverend Roger Herft, this morning announced the appointment of Australia’s first woman bishop

14 April 2008

The 52nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

A significant number of women gathered from across the Anglican Communion to provide input to the annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, meet with other NGOs, and meet amongst themselves. What better occasion than to join our concerns for improving the lives of women and children

13 March 2008

New woman bishop in Canada

New woman bishop in Canada

It is with joy that Canada sends you the news that the Reverend Canon Dr. Linda Nicholls has been elected Bishop Suffragan for the Diocese of Toronto. She will be consecrated on 2 February 2008.

07 December 2007

A report from Korea from the experience of two IAWN Link women visiting together

A report from Korea from the experience of two IAWN Link women visiting together

Ruth Choi, Link woman for Korea, and Phoebe Griswold, Link woman for The Episcopal Church USA, have been working together during the Griswold's visit to the Korean Province.

05 December 2007

Churches in the Philippines call on all members to formulate policy on sexual abuse

Churches in the Philippines call on all members to formulate policy on sexual abuse

The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) for the past eight years was led by the first lay woman General Secretary, Sharon Rose Joy Ruiz-Duremdes.

05 December 2007

Statements from the UNCSW Meeting

Statements from the UNCSW Meeting

February 26 through March 9, 2007, Anglican and Episcopal delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) meeting, at UN headquarters in New York City and nearby locations.

30 October 2007