The Archbishop of Canterbury joined former President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 25 to assure the people of Manchester of prayers after the terrorist attack in their city.
Archbishop Justin Welby met with President Obama and Chancellor Merkel while attending the Kirchentag in Berlin.
The Kirchentag is Germany’s Protestant Church Assembly, and draws 150,000 people from around Germany and across the world. This year it falls on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
