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"The history of relations between the Church of England and the Catholic Church is long and complex, and not without pain. Recent decades, however, have been marked by a journey of rapprochement and fraternity, and for this we give heartfelt thanks to God."

The Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) has called for the rejection of the Domestic Relations Bill  before Parliament arguing that proposals to turn common-law marriages into legally recognized marriages was bad social policy and jeopardized the rights of women.

In a speech delivered on 27 March 2013, the chairman of UJCC, Archbishop Stanley Ntagali -- the primate of the church of Uganda – said: "Marriage for us in the Church is not a union of convenience but it is a lifelong partnership that can only be extinguished by the death of the partners.”

As I write this letter to you it is Wednesday in Holy Week. I am travelling to Juba in South Sudan to spend the Great Three Days (The Sacred Triduum) with Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, his clergy and his people. I am to be away from all the things that are familiar, except that the Church is one throughout the world, and the old, old story does not change (yet changes everything).

Press release from the AWnglican Church of Aotearoa, NewZealand and Polynesia announcing the election of a new archbishop

 ... One of [Justin Welby's] responsibilities is towards the Anglican Communion which is currently suffering from impaired and broken relationships. Archbishop Justin will definitely need to accurately diagnose the reasons for these divisions in order to come up with the correct treatment. One of the first challenges he will face is to understand how the nature of the Anglican Communion has changed in the last decades. Statistics show that there are now more Anglicans in the “South” than in the “North.”

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has offered his congratulations to Francis I, the first Latin American and first Jesuit pope.

Francis’ election is “of great significance to Christians everywhere, not least among Anglicans...."

Three complaints have been lodged with the Anglican Church of Tanzania (KAT) by members of the church's general synod alleging misconduct and fraud in the conduct of last month's election of an archbishop.

The Archbishop of Tanzania was rebuffed yesterday in his bid for a second five year term as the Bishop of Mpwapwa, the Rt. Rev. Jacobo Chimeledya, was elected primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania.

Anglican ecomiums upon the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI

The Church of Nigeria will break with the Church of England should it appoint clergy living in gay civil partnerships to the episcopate.

In a statement released under the signature of the Archbishop of All-Nigeria, the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh at the close of the bishops’ annual retreat this week, the Anglican Communion’s largest church: “Sadly we must also declare that if the Church of England continues in this contrary direction we must further separate ourselves from it and we are prepared to take the same actions as those prompted by the decisions of The Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church of Canada ten years ago.”ned.

Conservative Evangelical leaders have charged the Church of England’s House of Bishops with hypocrisy, denouncing the 20 Dec 2012 announcement that gay clergy in civil partnerships, who remain celibate, may be appointed as bishops.

... “Our grief and sense of betrayal are beyond words,” Archbishop Stanley Ntagali of Uganda said on 7 January 2013.

A selection of links to sermons preached by the leaders of the Church of England, Church of Ireland and Church in Wales this Christmas. Topics raised by the bishop of the Church of England, Church of Ireland, and Church in Wales ranged from Israeli policies in the occupied territories, reaching out to the poor and marginalized, conforming the church to the changing moral and social standards of society, and the mystery of the incarnation.