Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori meets survivors of war, sexual violence and disease in the dioceses of Bukavu, North Kivu and Boga in the Anglican Church of Congo.
On Friday 25 February, 17-yr-old Caroline Christie of the Diocese of Newark presented the Statement from Girl Delegates to the UN’s 55th Commission on the Status of Women.
According to two recent research studies, the pay disparity between male and female clergy in the Episcopal Church mirrors the rest of the United States. The studies are reported in ‘’Women in America’, a statistical portrait released 1 March by the White House, and ‘Called to Serve’, a Church Pension Fund study of clergy women and their families released in January.
“Violence against women is the most pervasive human rights violation in the world” is a sentiment spoken by Kofi Annan and echoed by almost every human rights organization, the United Nations, and countless other NGOs around the world.
This stunning collection of prayers from women throughout the Anglican Communion is organized according to themes of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
It makes direct connections between women’s personal lives and global concerns of women everywhere, showing the interrelatedness, for example, between a woman’s prayer for her infant in America and the plight of child laborers in developing countries.
Sandra McPhee and Karen Chane have been chosen to represent the Episcopal Church on the International Anglican Women's Network (IAWN), an official network of the communion that reports the work of Anglican women, and the challenges they face, to the Anglican Consultative Council.
While worldwide attention is focused on discord and divisions within the Anglican Communion, Anglican women and girls are uniting to make their voices heard on issues of poverty and women's empowerment, express the power and depth of their faith, and to reveal their connections across cultural and economic differences, by contributing to a new book of women's prayers.
ACNS article can be found here