Found 52 articles matching 'Mission'.
GAFCON: largest since Lambeth
Chris Sugden
Date posted: 1 Dec 2013
GAFCON 2013, which met at the Conference Centre and Cathedral at All Saints Nairobi, can legitimately claim to be the largest worldwide gathering of Anglicans since Lambeth 1998 which was attended by all Anglican bishops and their wives.
331 bishops and archbishops and 1,358 delegates, including over 300 women, met together, among whom 120 were from England, Ireland and Wales.
India: strategies to face persecution
Vinay Samuel & Chris Sugden
Date posted: 1 Jan 2014
Thirty
lawyers, media personnel, pastors
and agency workers from Christian denominations across India met at the Centre for
Religious Freedom in Delhi from November
25–29
to prepare
resources
to enable
Christians of all churches in India to meet
the
likelihood of
further persecution
in
months to come.
Persecution may be stepped up because
Hindu nationalist politicians may win power
in the current local and upcoming national
elections and even form the Government if
only in coalition with others.
A hard pill to swallow
Lee Gatiss
Date posted: 1 Jan 2014
The Church of England has now entered
another turbulent period of debate over
sexuality, which threatens to tear it apart
from the inside.
The Pilling Report on Human Sexuality
came out at the end of November and will
be discussed by the House of Bishops in
January. It contains worrying evidence and
worrying recommendations.
Directing Reform
EN caught up with Susie Leafe, the recently appointed first full-time Director of Reform, just before their leaders conference and asked her a few questions.
EN: Tell us about your own conversion. SL: I grew up in a nominally Christian home, so I went along to Sunday School at our parish church and learned a few Bible stories.