The Rt. Rev. Dr. Georges Titre Ande, a theology professor and senior bishop of the Province de L’Eglise Anglicane Du Congo was elected as the church’s fifth archbishop and primate by its General Synod, which met from 2 to 9 July.
The Rt. Rev. Azad Marshall, a leader in theological education with broad experience in the wider Anglican Communion, was elected to a three-year term as moderator of the Church of Pakistan at its triennial synod on March 14. He began his ministry by addressing the deep concerns many church members have for safety, living in a country recently ranked as the world’s most violent for Christians.
The Most Rev. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, the Anglican Communion’s Secretary General, issued an Easter message of hope to the people of Myanmar on April 3,...
Muslim Fulani herdmen shot Canon James Adebayo Famonure four times as he was leading family devotions, also wounding three other family members. The attack is the latest in a series launched against Christian farmers in central Nigeria in a conflict driven by land use disputes, Islamist ideology, and widely available weaponry. The current coronavirus seems to be making things worse.
The Ven. Ngulongo Year Batsemire, archdeacon of Eastern DRC's Diocese of Eringeti, was murdered near his home by members of the militant Allied Democratic Force, for refusing to convert to Islam.
A June 2019 Pew report described all twenty countries of the province as places where the levels of government restriction on religion is either high or very high.
Bp. Philip Mountstephen: “There is a lot of post-colonial guilt around a residual sense that the Christian faith is an expression of white Western privilege.”
