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Safeguarding creation, renewing the life of the earth: the Katowice climate summit and our Advent hope
"As Anglicans, we are called to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth. Three years ago, the global community came together to agree targets to safeguard the world against cataclysmic climate change. Recent scientific studies...
Know your HIV status: Message for 2018 World Aids Day
'Live life positively - know your HIV status' is the message for the 30th World AIDS Day - today, 1 December 2018. The United Nations is calling for global efforts to increase access and uptake of HIV testing. While very significant progress has been made in tackling...
Welcoming the Stranger: Anglican Church in Amman begins free neighbourhood clinic
St. Paul’s Anglican Church in the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood of Jordan’s capital city Amman has long been a place of welcome to displaced people from the region. The church was founded by Palestinian refugees in the 1950s and in the decades since has welcomed new...
First Agents of Change graduation for the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea: “A joyous occasion not only for them, but for all of us”, Dennis Kabekabe, group mentor and Provincial Secretary
After months of hard work, eight participants from the Morobe Deanery of Lae, Papua New Guinea have successfully completed the Agents of Change community development course (find out more about the course here). Their success was celebrated at a special ceremony in...
Churches in East Asia tackle human trafficking and promote safe migration
“If a survivor comes to your church there needs to be an open-handed welcome, because the church is the only place that can meet all of a survivor’s needs ...that can give spiritual support.” So spoke a participant at last week’s consultation on human trafficking – a...
Troubled Waters – a reflection for the Season of Creation
"Water is the primary medium through which we will feel the effects of climate change. Water availability is becoming less predictable in many places, and increased incidences of flooding threaten to destroy water points and sanitation facilities and contaminate water...
Churches respond as storms wreak havoc across continents
Typhoons and hurricanes have hit the eastern United States, northern Philippines and now Hong Kong and China. As thousands have been evacuated, many have lost their homes and livelihoods. In the midst of the pain and destruction, the Church is there responding. Super...
Celebrating the Season of Creation
"Creation is God’s intricate work of art, and human beings are privileged to be placed within it. In this Season of Creation, we celebrate God the Creator, we thank God for the extraordinary riches of his grace. But we also come in sorrow for the way we have defaced...
Devastating Kerala floods draw creative and spirited responses from young Anglicans and others
“For the people of Kerala, ‘God's own Country’, felt for a moment like ‘God's disowned Country’, with 75% of the State affected by an unprecedented two weeks of monsoon rains. With 300+ lives lost, livestock dead and missing, and property lost and damaged, it seemed...
Pacific region leads the way on Agents of Change
“I learned about community, skills, experience, resources, consultation, even Bible reflections that link to the topics. It is just so interesting.” Belinda Lini Fifteen participants from across Vanuatu have taken part in a launch workshop of Agents of Change, the...
2018 World Day against Trafficking in Persons
“My family was very poor and a neighbour told me she knew about a good job in the city – someone was looking for a domestic helper.” This is the story of ‘Martha’, a young woman from East Africa. Martha was only 16 when she travelled to the city for her promised job....
Update from al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza
Following the recent violence in Gaza, al-Ahli Arab Hospital (AAH), a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, has continued to provide medical care for those physically injured and those, particularly children, who have been traumatised by the violence....
