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Web users looking for support during the current financial situation have boosted traffic to a Church of England website section focusing on debt advice by over 70 per cent, and increased visitor numbers to the Church’s online prayer page by more than a quarter.
Canon John L Peterson, Washington Cathedral
The Rt Revd David Beetge
When we received word last Friday in Jerusalem that Bishop David Beetge had died, there was total disbelief. Kirsten and I had spent a wonderful evening with Carol and David at the Lambeth Conference and although David was under treatment for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, he looked great and was "vintage" David. It was a night of lots of laughter and recollection of the "good old days."
Tributes have come in from many Anglican leaders. ACNS shares statements from Dr Rowan Williams and others.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Williams, joined some 600 Anglicans for a pilgrimage at world-renowned shrine of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in the south of France. The five day visit was sponsored by the Society of Mary and the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham
From the Anglican Communion Office, London
The 2008 Lambeth Conference involved the participation of some 680 bishops and 3000 participants overall. From Cathedral to parishes and volunteers all over the UK, support for 2008 meeting was indeed generous.
A series of 10 video journals featuring more than 30 bishops from around the world attending the 2008 Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion are now available for viewing at Trinity Wall Street's website.
Lisbon’s Cathedral Church of St Paul was over flowing with people on Saturday as the Lusitanian Church in Portugal celebrated the 50th anniversary of the consecration of their first bishop. The Lusitanian Church is an extra provincial diocese to the Archbishop of Canterbury with its Anglican Communion roots coming from the Church of Ireland, the Episcopal Church USA and Igreja Anglican Episcopal of Brazil.
AWNN Third Issue can be found here: http://www.aco.org/resources/aw/online/index.cfm
The latest issue of AWNN is now online. The theme of the current edition digests Limbering Up for Lambeth.
In the splendour of the Church of Santa Maria Sopa Minerva, Rome, the Very Revd David Richardson, former Dean of Melbourne, (Australia) was installed and blessed as the new Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome (ACR) on 7May 2008. He also will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury's personal representative to the Holy See (The Vatican and the Pope).
The Rt Revd Dehqani Tafti Hassan Barnaba, Bishop in Iran 1961-1990 and Confessor of the Faith, on 29th April 2008 died peacefully at home in Oakham - England, surrounded by his loving wife and daughters.
The Anglican Communion, through the Bishops at Lambeth in 1998, the Primates at Dromantine in 2004 and various statements by the present Archbishop of Canterbury, has in various ways made it clear that;
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