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Anglican Resources for Lent 2022
Anglican mission and development agencies across the Communion have published a wealth of Lenten resources to aid reflection and action on pressing global concerns in the light of Scripture. All can be downloaded, or signed-up for, for free. Here we offer a brief...
Freedom Fridays in February: Online Course Launched
The Anglican Alliance has launched its four-week course on tackling modern slavery and human trafficking. Freedom Fridays in February is bringing together participants in two online courses, one for the Asia-Pacific region, the other for Africa and the Middle East in...
Inundações no Estado da Bahia, Brasil – Resposta Anglicana, 27 de janeiro de 2022
No dia de Natal, após semanas de impacto das chuvas, houve grandes inundações, duas represas desmoronaram no Estado da Bahia, agravando a devastação. O governador do estado, Rui Costa, descreveu-o como "o pior desastre que já ocorreu na história da Bahia". Meio milhão...
Flooding in Bahia State, Brazil – Anglican responses
On Christmas Day, after weeks of heavy rain had already caused widespread flooding, two dams collapsed in Brazil’s Bahia State, compounding the devastation. The state’s governor Rui Costa described it as “the worst disaster that has ever occurred in the history of...
Tonga: Church responds following massive volcanic eruption and tsunami waves
The Anglican Church is responding to the disaster on the islands of Tonga. On 15 January 2022 the Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai Volcano erupted in the sea 65km from Tonga’s capital, generating a massive ash plume and triggering tsunami waves across the nation’s islands....
Celebration as first graduates of the Resilience Course are commissioned
“I thank you and commend you deeply for your commitment… which will bring about change across the whole Anglican Communion, rippling out from our church into our communities” – Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWqhobHb_YA&t=1s...
Reflecting on the Anglican Communion’s engagement with COP26
Of all my unusual experiences at COP26, going on a space safari was perhaps the most unexpected. The UK pavilion had a 3D virtual reality headset, and the enthusiastic young aide was determined I was going to try it. I was pushed for time and anxious to get to my next...
Anglican Communion COP26 Policy Brief presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
The Anglican Communion delegation has now arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, and is actively engaging in the United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP26. On Monday 1 November the delegation presented the Anglican Communion's COP26 Policy Brief to the Archbishop of...
COP26 and the Anglican Communion
The world’s eyes will soon be focused on Glasgow, Scotland as world leaders gather for COP26, the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Our accompanying piece sets out the particular importance of...
Faith leaders unite in call for urgent climate action informed by “the knowledge of science and the wisdom of religion” ahead of COP26
"We have inherited a garden: we must not leave a desert to our children." Joint appeal by global faith leaders and scientists, 4th October 2021 It is now just a matter of days until world leaders will come together in Glasgow for COP26, the 26th Conference of the...
Church of England Bishops join calls for emergency G7 meeting to tackle vaccine ‘hoarding’
The Church of England has issued the following press release: "The Bishops of the Church of England are backing calls for the leaders of the world’s richest countries to halt the “hoarding” of COVID-19 vaccines while billions of people around the world have yet to be...
Call to G7 nations to share surplus vaccines
Today the Anglican Alliance and the Anglican Health and Community Network call on G7 governments to convene urgently to address the issue of global vaccine inequity, including the hoarding and wastage of surplus Covid vaccines. At the Anglican Alliance we witness the...
