The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, gave President Robert Mugabe a dossier alleging a member of the church was murdered in cold blood while priests and parishioners were being terrorised by the police and armed gangs loyal to former Anglican church leader Nolbert Kunonga.
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Archbishop accuses diocese of delaying rape and sex abuse complaints
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
The Catholic Church in Adelaide denies it delayed investigating allegations of rape and sex abuse by a Traditional Anglican Communion Archbishop, John Hepworth. Over the weekend, the Australian revealed that Fr John Hepworth fled the Catholic priesthood in 1972 after enduring sexual abuse from two priests and a fellow seminarian for twelve years. After leaving, Read more
Anglican spiritual head Archbishop Rowan Williams to resign
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011The spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, will resign his position next year almost a decade before he is due to retire in order to return to academic life, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Williams, 61, who has worked hard to prevent the worldwide Anglican community from splitting over the ordination of women and gay bishops, may take up a senior post at Cambridge University, the Sunday Telegraph said.
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Friday, September 9th, 2011A liberal Auckland Anglican congregation is rejoicing after a Diocesan bishop made the ground-breaking statement that he would be willing to discern and ordain GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender) candidates for ordained ministry, including those in committed same-sex relationships.
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011Within our ministry units there are many gay and lesbian Anglicans. They are a part of us. They are in big units and small units, rural units and urban units, units that might be considered ‘liberal’ and units that might be considered ‘conservative’. They have always been part of us and, whether we’ve known it or not, always ministered as lay and clergy in our midst and made enormous contributions through the history of this Diocese.
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
A workshop organised by the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative attended by lawyers, police, Ports Authority officials and Government officials has been told that “Human trafficking is real and it happens in the Solomon Islands,” Sister Doreen told the workshop that the issue of human trafficking has been seen as a problem experienced only in Read more
St Matthews stirs the gay debate
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The latest billboard of an Auckland church known for its controversial campaigns stirs the gay debate. St Matthew’s in the City’s latest billboard depicts a “gay-dar” showing a spectrum from gay to straight with a cross acting as a meter. An explanatory caption on the board states: “As used by the Anglican Church to assess Read more
Hundreds of Anglicans become Catholic on Ash Wednesday
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
An estimated six hundred Anglicans and 20 Anglican clergy became Roman Catholic on Ash Wednesday. These new Catholics will join the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a unique grouping created by Pope Benedict XVI for Anglicans left feeling isolated since the Church of England decided in 1992 to ordain women as priests. Those joining the Read more