Global South Anglican

After the talk, various interesting questions were asked. We have here the Q & A session transcribed fully. ++Rowans shared from his heart.

To address the question of ‘APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION’ and its importance to the unity/continuity of Christ’s Ministry through His whole church, and re-echoing Jesus’ prayer before His passion…

“Our attention has been drawn to some media reports of one or two primates alleging wrongful inclusion of their names in a document they were privy to its formation...”

Growing a church in a time of war is never easy but for the Most Rev’d Fidèle Diropka, Archbishop in the Anglican Province of the Congo, it has sometimes seemed impossible. His country has been devastated by years of brutal warfare, many of his churches have been destroyed, clergy have been killed and parishioners scattered…

At the third South South Encounter hosted by the Diocese of Egypt October 25th/30th in Ain El Sukhna the Primates met and decided that we needed to establish an ongoing leadership team. We were convinced that we needed to continue the important work of strengthening our community and implementing the decisions taken during our Encounter.

To assess materials from past Encounters, click here .

From 10-15 February 1997, 80 delegates, representing the Anglican Churches of the South, gathered in the beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur, to meet, know and encourage one another, in their Christian life and mission; to follow-up on the first Encounter in the South and specifically to seek God’s light and wisdom as we reflect on the place of Scripture in the life and mission of the Church in the 21st century.

In particular I hope we shall attend to the central Gospel message of reconciliation, especially at a time when violence, conflict ands tension in the world cries out for forgiveness and peace. In my travels in the Anglican Comumnion I have been very moved by the brave and joyful witness of Anglican Christians in the “South”, and the growth of the Church there even in suffering. I believe we in the “North” should heed your experiences, and learn from them more of the deep truths of the Gospel we share.

Our varied experiences from different cultures and contextual settings have brought home to us the need to proclaim, with a loud voice, the ministry of forgiveness and reconciliation: reconciliation between husband and wife, parents and children within the whole family of the Church – at parish, diocesan and Provincial levels and throughout the whole Communion.

BY THE GRACE of God, seventy-two of us gathered from 22 countries and 23 Provinces of the Anglican Communion in the South, have met at Limuru, Kenya. The first meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council took place here in 1971; and here, twenty-three years later, we have shared in another important step in the pilgrimage of Anglicans worldwide along the road of faithfulness to our Lord.

Appendix II: - for the article Farewell to Babel by Michael Poon

Appendix I - for the article Farewell to Babel by Michael Poon

We, the undersigned Bishops of East Asia, meeting in Manila, Philippines, 6-12 October 2004, are deeply concerned with the ongoing crisis in, and the grave uncertainties and threats to the unity and continuity of, the Anglican Communion.  We feel duty bound for the whole Communion we all deeply love to express our pains and to unequivocally urge the following:

As we meet, being acutely conscious of the current critical challenges we face as a Communion, we reaffirm our unswerving commitment to the historic and apostolic Christian Faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures “once delivered to the saints” (Jude v.3), proclaimed and practised by the Anglican Communion over the centuries. 

RESOLUTION passed unanimously at the Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the 2nd Session of Synod of the Province of South East Asia on 20 November 2003 at Kudat, Sabah, MALAYSIA

As ECUSA has willfully disregarded the strong warnings given at Lambeth that such an action would “tear the fabric of the communion at its deepest level”, we can now have no basis whatsoever for any further confidence that ECUSA will pay any regard to the findings of the recently announced Commission set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 

It is with profound sadness that we have arrived at this moment in the history of the Anglican Communion. Having met, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for two days, October 15-16, we struggled to find a way to reconcile our divergent views on human sexuality.

God’s glory and loving purposes have been revealed in the creation of humankind (Rom. 1:18; Gen. 1:36, 27). Among the multiplicty of his gifts we are blessed with our sexuality