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France’s Senate once again defeated a bill to legalize assisted suicide on May 11 by a vote of 151 to 118. The Senate then passed, by a vote of...
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THE BISHOP of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, said that it was a “moral necessity” to give the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill a...
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IN A March 5 communiqué marking what it said is a “historic day for the Global Anglican Communion,” GAFCON announced that it has dissolved its Primates Council to replace it with a new Global Anglican Council, chaired by the Archbishop of Rwanda, Dr Laurent Mbanda.
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THE Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking in the House of Lords on March 18 against the decriminalisation of abortions carried out outside the legal framework, said that the legislation “risks making an imperfect situation worse.” Nevertheless, a majority of peers went on to vote for full decriminalisation.
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ON MARCH 17, Scotland’s parliament voted 69 to 57 to reject Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide bill. This is a great victory after the same bill was passed at second reading, in May 2025, by...
FOR YEARS, we’ve heard the same story: Religion is dying in Canada, especially among young people. Churches are emptying. Faith is becoming irrelevant. The secular age has won. But recent data s...
(Staff) On Feb. 12, after a marathon debate, the General Synod of the Church of England formally ended Living in Love and Faith (LLF), the nine-year project that some had hoped would fully authorize s...
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IT IS A sobering season in Nigeria. On Feb. 4, Islamic extremists killed 177 villagers in Kwara State, mostly moderate Muslims, and 35 in Katsina State.
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A RECENT Supreme Court ruling in New Delhi has elicited responses of cautious optimism from the minority Christian community in India, who have long faced criminal cases under state-level anti-convers...
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BOLDLY announcing that “the future has arrived,” GAFCON, the Global South-based conservative renewal movement also known as the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, declared the crea...
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The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Shane Parker, and The Rt Rev. Daniel Gifford, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Canada, respond to the GAFCON announcement.
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(RNS) – ARCHBISHOP Steve Wood, who leads the Anglican Church in North America, was inhibited, or temporarily suspended from his ministry, on Nov. 16, just days after more than 140 clergy in the...
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She has been the Bishop of London since 2018. In her first comments since accepting the role, the Archbishop said: “As I respond to the call of Christ to this new ministry, I do so in the sam...
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THE RT REV. Dr. Mark Short, Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn since 2019, was elected on July 19 as Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia. He is the first evangelical to lead the church since th...
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THE CHURCH of England’s governing body has called on the British government to improve funding for “desperately needed” palliative care rather than putting vulnerable people at risk...
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ANGLICAN LEADERS from across the Global South condemned the July 30 election of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, a partnered lesbian, as Archbishop of Wales, describing it as an “abandonment of the fai...
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THE Archbishop of Kenya has ordered churches under his care to stop allowing speeches by politicians during their worship services. The ban moves the Anglican Church of Kenya into a stricter separatio...
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