It is not clear exactly whether the statement, which reprises familiar rhetoric from earlier declarations, will have an effect.

FILE - Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa leaves by car from the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated ...

"If you want to go fast, go alone - if you want to go far, go together," Dame Sarah Mullally said in her first public address as the new Archbishop of Canterbury designate.

In 1054, the Great Schism between the Eastern and Western churches split Christendom in two. The rift followed a series of ...

A statement released last week from Archbishop of Rwanda Laurent Mbanda, chair of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), announced his group plans to take control of global ...

Twenty Christians were killed, about 2 000 were displaced,1 300 homes were destroyed and two churches were burned down by al-Shabab jihadists during a series of attacks in Nampala Village in northern ...

Laurent Mbanda is spearheading what many are calling a spiritual coup from Canterbury to ...

Another leader in the breakaway denomination has been accused of responding slowly to accusations of abuse and grooming ...

JOHANNESBURG — The Anglican Church leadership in South Africa has admitted to failing to disclose sexual abuse allegations against its former member John Smyth, who mistreated children in the 1970s ...