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Beijing’s Man in the Anglican Communion

By David Goodhew Justin Welby and official Anglican structures have been silent over the oppression of Uighur Muslims, the people of Hong Kong, and Chinese...

U.N. Veteran Joins Anglican Office

Jillian Abballe as has joined the Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations as advocacy officer and head of the New York office.

Concerns for Pakistani Christians

Religious-freedom activists feel heightening concerns for Pakistan’s Christian minority.

Brothels Exploit Young Women

The Rt. Rev. Alastair Redfern says vulnerable young women, many of them from Eastern Europe, are being trafficked to the Peak District as sex workers.

The Church and human rights: Michael Ignatieff on idolatry

Churches face difficult decisions on matters of human rights because some discussions of the topic, like Ignatieff’s, present an alternative moral worldview with which Christians have overlapping concerns.

‘A Second-Class Citizen’

Archbishop Mouneer Anis describes living in an Egypt led by the Muslim Brotherhood.

‘The dignity of every human being’: The constitutive Baptismal Covenant

Describing the Baptismal Covenant as constitutive means that it governs (or at least should govern) how we live as a body; it determines our culture.

Makgoba Cites Mining Dangers

Archbishop of Cape Town: Churches “have failed the mining industry, both workers and managers.”

Bishop Protects Civilians

About 15 to 20 people have moved into the Bishop of Nzara’s home and 50 are living in the cathedral compound.

Global Briefs for Aug. 3

Lonely chaplains in Antarctica, portable dead in the U.K., and besieged Christians in China.

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