The Deanery of Nepal in the Diocese of Singapore, part of the Province of South East Asia, has issued an update, highlighting its work in supporting the victims of the April and May 2015 earthquakes that took the lives of 9,000 people; and of the remarkable growth in church numbers following the quakes.
02 February 2016
The Bishop of West Malaysia, the Rt Revd Ng Moon Hing, has warned that ties between Malaysia’s different communities has reached alarming levels. Bishop Hing, who will become the Archbishop of South East Asia next month, says that religious and racial polarisation in the country has reached a “very critical stage.”
04 January 2016
In significant meetings in Cairo last week alliances were formed for peace between Muslims and Christians in Sudan, South Sudan and Malaysia. The Primate of Jerusalem and the Middle East, Archbishop Mouneer Anis, organised meetings between Anglican leaders and the Grand Iman of Al-Azhar – the renowned Islamic university, mosque and centre in Cairo – and the Coptic Pope.
10 November 2015
The Diocese of West Malaysia in the Province of South East Asia has been implementing a special focus on discipleship, or Christian living, for the past six years and has now held a seminar for faith leaders to look back on and share good practice.
23 October 2015
Anglican Witness video puts spotlight on challenges in the Anglican Communion churches.
22 October 2015
A scheduled meeting of the bishops of East Asia has been cancelled, so that the budget can be spent instead on a gathering of young people from the region – such was the effect of the young people’s participation in the Full Assembly of the Council of Churches of East Asia (CCEA) last week.
12 October 2015
The Sermon by the Most Revd Renato Mag-Gay Abibico, Prime Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines,
at the opening of the Council of Churches of East Asia Full Assembly, October 2015
09 October 2015
The Archbishop of South East Asia, the Most Revd Bolly Lapok, has called on Malaysia’s new education minister to apologise for “divisive and incendiary remarks” he made recently about Christians and Jews.
08 October 2015
Poverty is a scourge, a scandal and a sin against God, the Most Revd Renato Mag-Gay Abibico, the Prime Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, said in a sermon during a poignant service to open the full assembly of the Council of Churches of East Asia (CCEA).
08 October 2015
Bishop of West Malaysia to take office in February 2016 as fifth Archbishop of the Province
02 September 2015