Global South Anglican

Churches and organizations seeking to give aid to the Myanmar cyclone crisis can do via a collaborative effort between the Diocese of Singapore and the Province of the Anglican Church in Myanmar:

Contact info:

Revd Michael Teh

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“..we want clergy, we want lay people, we want younger generation leaders, potential leaders so we’ve seen beyond just bishops, we want to go beyond that ..” In an indication of the mood he thought should pervade GAFCON, Orombi said delegates will “..think of mission. What is it that the Lord demands of our church? What is the need of the world? Let’s go for it.”

THE Archbishop of Burma and a Burmese priest who is visiting the UK have described the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis in their country. One aid worker called the scene he found there a “nuclear landscape”.

I have ‘sensed’ two things in my personal interaction with Anglican leaders across the board….

In February (2008), Theresa Carino visited the Shanghai headquarters of the National CCC/TSPM and interviewed newly elected leaders Rev. Gao Feng, President of the CCC and Elder Fu Xuanwei, Chair of the TSPM. Their hopes and concerns are summarized below.

ACNS

White Point, Nova Scotia, Canada, 14 to 20 May 2007

The Third Anglican – Lutheran International Commission (ALIC) held its second meeting at White Point, Nova Scotia, Canada between 14 and 20 May, 2007, under the chairmanship of the Rt Revd Fred Hiltz, Anglican Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and the Revd Dr Thomas Nyiwé, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon.

Over 1000 senior leaders from seventeen provinces in the Anglican Communion, representing 35 million church-going Anglicans, have registered for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem at the close of the online registration process. They include 280 bishops, almost all accompanied by their wives. Final attendance figures will depend on smooth processing of requested visas, and other factors. 

The first Iranian Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Iran, the Rt.Revd Dehquani-Tafti died on Tuesday, April 29 at his home in Oakham - England.

Bishops Robert Duncan and Henry Scriven confirmed today that they will be attending both the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jordan and Jerusalem in June and the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in Kent, England, this July and August.

A Vatican cardinal has said that the time has come for the Anglican Church to choose between Protestantism and the ancient churches of Rome and Orthodoxy.

Speaking on the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury met Benedict XVI in Rome, Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council of Christian Unity, said it was time for Anglicanism to “clarify its identity”.