A historic Memorandum of Understanding between St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore and All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt with St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral, Alexandria, Egypt was signed on the 1st of August 2009…

The Primate of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) Archbishop Peter Akinola, has urged government to fish out the perpetrators of the crisis that trailed Thursday’s local government election in Plateau State. Scores of people had been killed since violence erupted in Jos on Friday even before the election results were announced.

Ed - Keep the crisis in Jos (Nigeria)  in your prayers.

A report on the Missions Consultation Roundtable 2008, hosted by the Diocese of Singapore on 6th - 9th October 2008, Bangkok, Thailand. 

One of those who have been touched by the Word of God is Ms Liu Yali, a member of the China national women’s soccer team. Yali came to faith after experiencing peace through prayer and the reading of the Bible.  She found that every word in the Bible was speaking to her personally.  She said, “God’s Word gives me strength to live.”

An informative article which is relevant to the on-going interfaith work.

“...Human beings have never lacked for things to fight over, but for the last two millennia, they have fought the most over ideas involving the divine. Politics, technology, military capacity, and diseases have all played decisive roles in shaping history, yet it is impossible to understand the rise and fall of empires, the clash of civilizations, and the evolving balance of power without appreciating the unique fervor that religion inspires, and the speed with which new religions can spread…”

Read it all here

Today, ‘Generous Love: the truth of the Gospel and the call to dialogue’ -  an Anglican theology of inter faith relations - was launched at the Anglican Communion Office in London. It is a report from the Anglican Communion Network for Inter Faith Concerns.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams gave a public lecture on 6th December 2007 in Singapore, speaking on the topic “Religious Diversity & Social Unity.” The lecture was jointly hosted by Diocese of Singapore and MUIS (The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore). The Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, chaired the lecture. Many diplomats, MPs, community and religious leaders were present amongst the 800 participants at Ritz-Carlton.

There was a lively Q & A session after that.
Lecture: audio & text
Q&A: audio & text

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams gave a public lecture on 6th December 2007 in Singapore, speaking on the topic “Religious Diversity & Social Unity.” The lecture was jointly hosted by Diocese of Singapore and MUIS (The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore). The Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, chaired the lecture. Many diplomats, MPs, community and religious leaders were present amongst the 800 participants at Ritz-Carlton.

During a 40-minute address, he made the point that having strong religious convictions does not mean the end of social unity. In fact, the more conviction that people have in their religion - regardless of their faith - the less they can justify violence. The spiritual leader of the Anglican Church also defended the role that religion can play in public life.

Lecture: audio
Q&A: audio & text

On September 11, 2007, the 50 millionth Bible rolled off the Press at Amity Printing Company in Nanjing.

In the year 2005, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) extended its mission outreach to Congo, one of the African war-torn countries. This was in a swift response to the Macedonian call by the Anglican Church of Congo to come over to help develop and build self-supporting churches in the two provinces in the Republic – Kasia East and West…