Statement at the Lambeth Conference 2008 1. “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have...
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Source: ACNS The Communiqué Of the Primates’ Meeting in Dar es Salaam 19th February 2007 1. We, the Primates and Moderators of the Anglican Communion, gathered for mutual consultation and prayer at Dar es Salaam between 15th and 19th February 2007 at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury...
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Global South Primates’ Meeting The Anglican Communion Kigali, Rwanda September 2006 Communiqué ________________________________________ 1. As Primates and Leaders of the Global South Provinces of the Anglican Communion we gathered at the Hotel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda, between 19th and 22nd September...
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Preamble The timing of the Task Force is significant, in light of the growth of the Anglican Churches in the Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Middle East) and the contemporary crisis in the Anglican Communion. Both contexts demand that theological formation and education be accorded top priority by the...
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Some 20 Provinces will be represented at the Global South Primates Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, Sept. 19–22. They will be expected to address current Communion concerns like the proposed Anglican Covenant and its adoption process, response to GC2006, agenda for Lambeth 2008 and so on. However, top in the list of priority this time...
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Michael Nai-Chiu Poon, Singapore Director, Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia “So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. . . . The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."...
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Archbishop Rowan Williams Lambeth Palace London November 15th, 2005 Thank you, your Grace, for coming to join us at the Third South South Encounter in Egypt and sharing your thoughts on the four “marks” of the Church as “one, holy, catholic and apostolic.”...
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The Third Anglican Global South to South Encounter Red Sea (Egypt), 25-30 October 2005 The Third Anglican South-to-South Encounter has graphically demonstrated the coming of age of the Church of the Global South. We are poignantly aware that we must be faithful to God’s vision of one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. We do...
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Presented by Archbihop Drexel Gomex on behalf of the Province of West Indies. I. Holiness in Truth and Life: the Early Church and the Church’s mark of Holiness The holiness of the Church has been a matter of confession from the earliest days of the Christian community. Already in the early 3rd century,...
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The 3rd South to South Encounter, Ain-el-Sukhna, 25 - 31 Oct 2005 Presented at the plenary session on “One,” 25 Oct 2005 by the Most Revd Datuk Yong Ping Chung, on behalf of the Province of Southeast Asia 1. Introduction I feel greatly honoured and privileged to be given the task of presenting the first of the four theme...
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03. August 2008
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