Anglican Alliance encourages churches to mark Freedom Sunday

The Anglican Alliance is encouraging churches around the Communion to choose a Sunday to mark Freedom Sunday in this period between 18 October, Anti-Trafficking Day, and 2 December, the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. The Alliance has worked with an...

Marking World Mental Health Day 2020

Today, 10 October, the Anglican Alliance marks World Mental Health Day 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of mental health has been raised in all our regional consultations. The pandemic itself and the disruption, anxiety and suffering in people’s lives is...

Christian organisations call for a more compassionate European migration policy

“Within the Anglican Communion, people are called in the Five Marks of Mission ‘to respond to human need by loving service…to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and pursue peace and reconciliation’. Across our...

Launching today: our new Resilience course – an invitation to take part

“We cannot prevent disasters, nor can we remove all threats and hazards from our lives. But we can increase our resilience to them – our capacity to absorb, mitigate, adjust to and recover from adverse events and circumstances” –  Dr Janice Proud,...

A Jubilee for the Earth – Season of Creation 2020

“As we live into a post-COVID-19 world, can we imagine new, just and sustainable ways of living that give the Earth the rest it requires, that satisfy everyone with enough, that restore habitats and renew biological diversity?” September 1st marks the beginning of the...

Explosion in Lebanon: rebuilding lives, hope and church institutions

On 4th August, waves of explosion blasted out from the port through the downtown neighbourhoods of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, abandoned in a port warehouse for seven years, had ignited, setting off massive explosions. Latest figures...