Panama : Witnessing as Anglicans in the 3rd Millennium
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article21737
- Author
- Harris, David
- Jenkins, Steve
- Currie, Nicola
- Rosenthal, James M. (James Milton), 1951-
- Rodgers, Margaret, 1939-2014
- Harries, Liz Gibson
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 1996 Advent
- Author
- Harris, David
- Jenkins, Steve
- Currie, Nicola
- Rosenthal, James M. (James Milton), 1951-
- Rodgers, Margaret, 1939-2014
- Harries, Liz Gibson
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 1996 Advent
- Issue
- 84
- Page
- 23-28
- Notes
- The tenth meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council took as its theme "Witnessing as Anglicans in the Third Millennium". The work of the Council [was looking] to the future in worship, looking to the future in Ministry, looking to the future in communicating our beliefs.
- In his remarks, the Secretary General John Peterson, announced two new programmes for the Communion: 1) the Anglican Investment Agency, a unit trust mutual fund which would allow Anglicans to make ethical investments; and 2) the Anglican Communion Friends Programme, which would encourage support from individuals and congregations.
- The meeting examined a draft version of provocative "The Virginia Report", produced by the Inter Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission, which "calls for major changes in communion operations and looks at new ways for the Church to work as it faces the future. Archbishop predicted that the 1998 Lambeth Conference would be a defining moment in Anglicanism and urged a greater voice for the laity.
- The Council also voted to participate in the Bethlehem 2000 Project. "The churches involvement would help alleviate the problem that many tourists and pilgrims come to Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Nazareth and never meet the indigenous Christian population."
- Bishop Simon Chiwanga, Bishop of Mpwapwa, Tanzania, was elected Chairman of the Council, and Bishop John Paterson, of Auckland, New Zealand, was elected Vice Chairman.
- Council also heard a report on homosexuality from Bishop Richard Harries, of Oxford, who reviewed the debates on the subject throughout the Communion.
- The Bishop of Lahore, the Rt. Rev. Alexander Malik, of the Church of Pakistan, chaired the hearing on Islam.
- The Council also passed a resolution which declared vacant the sees in Rwanda whose bishops had fled the country and refused to return even after repeated visits from officials including Bishop David Birney, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy. The Anglican Church of Canada was thanked for the help they provided in response to the crisis.
- Bishop Samir Kafity called for the Council to "work for peace and reconciliation as Christians and Moslems seek their rightful place in Jerusalem, the Holy City, sacred to Christians and Moslems as well as the Jews".
- The Council passed fewer resolutions than usual but these included the call for a Anglican Congress, perhaps in 2001, as a major celebration of our Anglican heritage and also affirmed the observance of 1997 as "The Year of Uprooted Peoples" and the work of the Anglican Refugee Network.
- Subjects
- Anglican Consultative Council. Meeting (10th : 1996 : Panama City, Panama)
- Millennium - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Consultative Council - Finance
- Anglican Investment Agency
- Investments - Moral and ethical aspects - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Communion Friends Programme
- Virginia Report
- Anglican Communion - Government
- Lambeth Conference, 1998
- Bethlehem 2000
- Bethlehem - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Israel - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Palestinian Arabs - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Anglican Communion
- Missions - Anglican Communion
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Christianity and other religions - Islam - Anglican Communion
- Rwanda - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Episcopal Church of Rwanda
- Jerusalem - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Congress
- Anglican Communion - Congresses
- Refugees - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- International Year of Uprooted Peoples (1997)
- Location
- General Synod Archives