A former Anglican archbishop of Brisbane and primate of Australia has died on the Gold Coast at the age of 89, according to reports.

Earlier this week the first draft was published of legislation to permit women to be consecrated as bishops in the Church of England. The draft will be considered by the General Synod in February and it must either be rejected or passed a Revision Committee, the latter being by far the most likely outcome.

The Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem has expressed his dismay at the latest conflict to hit the Holy Land.

As the anniversaries of the Windsor Report come and go, one is compelled to ask: what has been accomplished? The answer, it seems, is precious little.

The Church of England has reached an historic agreement on the consecration of women bishops.

TENSIONS in the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat have reached the highest levels of the church in Australia with a group of disaffected clergy travelled to Brisbane just before Christmas to air grievances with the Anglcian Primate of Australia, Archbishop Aspinall.

Five of the Church’s most senior figures said the Government now presided over a country suffering from family breakdown, an unhealthy reliance on debt and a growing divide between rich and poor. The Rt Rev Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, said ministers had not done enough to help the poor.

Leading Church of England bishops have accused the British Government of being "morally corrupt" and delivered a damning verdict on Labour's rule.

Five Anglican bishops today called into question the morality of UK government policies. The bishops of Durham, Carlisle, Hulme, Manchester and Winchester, told the Sunday Telegraph the UK was beset by family breakdown, debt and poverty.

On Friday a Fairfax County Judge in Virginia ruled to let nearly a dozen conservative congregations, which broke away from the Episcopal Church, keep their properties. While the decision in Virginia is making the local Anglicans community more optimistic, both sides are still anxiously awaiting a final decision by the California State Supreme Court.

A Virginia judge ruled on Friday that three parcels of land belong to parishes that have broken away from the Episcopal Church, handing conservatives an important, if tentative, legal win.

On December 3, as the Bishop of CANA (the Convocation of Anglicans in North America) I joined the bishops and representatives of 14 other Anglican dioceses and networks to introduce the provisional constitution of a new Anglican Church in North America.

Among the 23 to achieve a perfect HSC score this year was Kate Bones, dux of Abbotsleigh School for Girls, who hopes to be admitted to the University of Sydney combined international studies-law degree next year.

A discussion on the sensitive topic has been tabled for the next meeting of the Church of England's governing body amid fears that some clergy are ignoring their traditional missionary role.

Anglican leader Rowan Williams said Thursday that the global credit crunch was a welcome "reality check" for Britain, in comments rejected by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Year 12 students at Nowra Anglican College shined in their achievements this year, with the school named as the top ranked in the Shoalhaven for HSC results.

Distinguished theologian J.I. Packer and David Short, rector of St. John's Shaughnessy Church in Vancouver, the largest Anglican church in Canada, have been appointed honorary clerical canons of St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has surprisingly reignited the row over the separation of church and the British state by saying it is "not the end of the world" if the established church were to disappear.

The world is hungry for hope and the head of The Episcopal Church has challenged the media to take the less traveled road of feeding the public with more stories of encouragement than of scandal and controversy.

Religious charities in the UK can hold unpopular views, such as not endorsing homosexuality, just as long as they are transparent, the Charity Commission has stated.

Gympie Anglican Parish's new rector, Canon Allen Neil and his wife, the Reverend Lynette Neil, have just arrived in Gympie and are amazed by how friendly everyone is.

The Anglican Church of Canada’s Council of General Synod (CoGS) has given its cautious approval to the principle of an Anglican Covenant, but has reserved judgment pending a review of the final text.

The Anglican Church says a severely brain-damaged boy caused or contributed to his own disability after he was swept into a drain at one of its elite schools.

Episcopalians in New Mexico have voted to leave a conservative umbrella group and "reaffirm" their commitment to the Episcopal Church rather than join a new rival Anglican province on U.S. soil.

The threat of schism in the worldwide Anglican communion, focussed on dust-ups in the U.S. and Canada, has been much in the news for almost a decade. The media and some Anglicans have created a sense of overwhelming crisis in the 70 million-member denomination.