Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "All are crying for reconciliation and atonement."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has recorded a video message to mark the 20th annual World AIDS Day on December 1.
He talks about the Church's worldwide involvement in care and education surrounding HIV and AIDS, and calls on faith leaders to 'encourage and support' those who work on the front lines.
There are 30 million people worldwide living with HIV.
Global faith leaders meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, have signed a document calling for an extensive and rapid reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in wealthy parts of the world. "What we think and believe is different in many contexts. Still, when it comes to responsibility for the stewardship of the Earth, which is on loan from God, we are all in agreement," said (Lutheran) Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd in a statement that coincided with the opening in Poznan, Poland, of a UN global meeting on climate change.
The world's largest Gothic cathedral – St John the Divine – stages a coming-out celebration after a US $41m restoration reveals a gigantic space full of light and colour.
About 50 conservative Anglican leaders meeting in Toronto have emerged with a determination to remain within the Anglican Church of Canada.
Representatives of the primates and the Anglican Consultative Council have met behind closed doors in London to lay down plans for a crucial ACC meeting in Jamaica next May.
Desmond Tutu says the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States has given hope to the world.
The beatification of Cardinal Newman should offer "a great opportunity ecumenically" and not be presented as "Roman Catholic triumphalism," says a Rome official.
Fourteen bishops of the Anglican Church in the West Indies have registered their opposition to the death penalty.