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Wasteland
Rescue workers are dwarfed by the rubble as they pick their way through the shattered city of Otsuchi. Photo: Reuters
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In the shadow of St Paul's
The Occupy London Stock Exchange encampment outside St Paul's Cathedral. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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Global prayers
Archbishops at prayer during the Global South opening service in Singapore.
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High and dry
A ship is perched on top of a house in the tsunami-devastated remains of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture. Photo: EPA
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Swinging vote
Dr Rowan Williams listens soberly as the debate swings in favour of women bishops at the Church of of England General Synod.
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Sisters of The Church
Sr Veronica CSC, at right, alongside Sr Lydia, CSC, and Jo, an 'Alongsider', who also lives at St Michael's Convent, Ham.
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Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese
Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese leads the Pacific section of The Family Centre, who are the hosts for the IAFN consultation.
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Men of Worth
Locals in Bronte Country reveal all for a very good cause. Photo: Paul Barker, Church Times
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Archbishop on his knees
Dr Williams washes churchgoers' feet during the Maundy Thursday service at Canterbury Cathedral. Photo: PA
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Primate pleased
Archbishop Fred Hintz: "We need more conversation."
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Solomon secretary
George Kiriau is the secretary of the church in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - a province which has seen severe ethnic conflict.
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Cairo in turmoil
Murbarak supporters pelt anti-government demonstrators in Cairo.
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ACC begins with Eucharist
Bishops of the West Indies join the Archbishop of Canterbury to concelebrate the ACC's opening Eucharist.
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Bishop Brown's offer
Bishop Tom Brown preaching in his cathedral.
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Bankers 'should say sorry'
Dr Williams: senses 'diffused resentment' against bankers.
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Campaigner for non-violence
Charles Waldegrave - Anglican priest, psychologist, family therapist, social policy researcher, and co-leader of the Family Centre.
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Standing together
Archbishop Fred Hintz (Canada) and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (Episcopal Church)
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Starting with a drum roll...
Dancers and drummers welcome the altar party for the ACC's opening Eucharist in Kingston, Jamaica.
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ACC reps enjoy a light moment
Dr Tony Fitchett (right rear), lay representative for this church, enjoys a joke at the ACC meeting in Jamaica.
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ACC begins with worship
Up to 7000 people attend the opening Eucharist for the Anglican Consultative Council's 12-day meeting in Kingston, Jamaica.
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River crossing
Navigating a flooded street in Brisbane.
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Rock of ages
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, seen from the Christian quarter of the Old City. Photo: Reuter
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Our Father in heaven...
Jamaicans at the ACC's opening Eucharist join hands to sing a call-and-response version of the Lord's Prayer.
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Bishop Brown
The Bishop of Wellington, Rt Rev Dr Tom Brown, at Rangiatea in February 2008, during his diocese's 150th anniversary celebrations.
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View from the press bench
How the London Guardian's cartoonist saw the vote on women bishops in the Church of England.
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Home away from home
Flood victims doss down in a Brisbane evacuation centre.
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Controversial bishop has new mission
Rochester's Bishop Nazir Ali: he will now use his energies to help Christians under threat. Picture: Eleanor Bentall.
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The Bishop steps in
The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, and the Dean of St Paul's, the Very Rev Graeme Knowles, address protesters. Photo: Ray Tang/Rex Features
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'Beware of Islam'
Bishop Nazir-Ali: leaving his diocese on a note of warning.
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Commissioned for ACC service
The Archbishop of Canterbury commissions members of Standing Committee at the ACC's closing Eucharist in Kingston.
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Turning to Rome
Father Stephen Bould in St Peter's, Folkestone. Photograph: Philip Toscano for the Guardian.
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Queensland-NZ connections
Archbishop Philip Aspinal (left) of Brisbane, Archbishop David Moxon and Bishop Tom Brown at Rangiatea, in Otaki, in 2008.
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Reaching out to Queensland
Archbishop David Moxon: clergy on offer to Queensland.
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Banking on St Paul's
Protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. Photo: Getty Images
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Gene Robinson moving on
Gene Robinson: retiring as Bishop of New Hampshire but not from public life. Guardian picture.
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Huia shares
Huia Swann, who represented Tikanga Maori at the consultation, shares a reading during evening worship.
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Heading up Communion office
Alyson Barnett-Cowan: “I’m thinking about it as an adventure.”
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Teatime in the rockies
Dr Rowan Williams: Praying for a new Pentecost for the Anglican Communion.
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Taimalelagi celebrates
Taimalelagi Tuatagaloa, who chaired the consultation, celebrates the Eucharist. Note the stole of the Australian priest next to her
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Student success
Dr Eeva John, Academic Register of Trinity College, Bristol, congratulates St Veronica - who is studying at Trinity College.
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Nai says her farewell
Mrs Nai Cokanasiga from Fiji. Her husband, the Rev Mataiasi Cokanasiga, is pursuing post-ordination study at St John's College in Ak
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Gold amid the grey
A rescuer weeps for joy as he cradles a 4-month-old child found alive after three days in a ruined house in northern Japan. Photo: AP
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Parting shot
Anglican primates and officials pose for a group shot at the end of their meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
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The Wainuiomata welcome
The delegates to the IAFN consultation on family violence were welcomed to Wellington at a powhiri at Wainuiomata Marae.
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Tutu exhorts the faithful
Archbishop Desmond Tutu addresses the crowd in Copenhagen.
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Our man leaves ACC helm
Bishop John Paterson of Auckland who has just stepped down from chairing the Anglican Consultative Council.
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Ipswich goes under
Homes in the city of Ipswich, west of Brisbane, are inundated by floodwaters. Picture: AAP
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'Repent and be changed'
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, who wants to uphold traditional teachings of the Bible.
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"Equal in God's sight"
Dr Jenny Te Paa, who gave a keynote address at the consultatiion - and who led the Lambeth 2008 session of the abuse of power.
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Awaiting the Pope
Catholic and Anglican bishops gather at Lambeth Palace to await the arrival of the Pope on September 17. Photo, Chris Ison/PA Wire)
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Body broken
Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa, who chaired the IAFN consultation, is a former Anglican Observer to the UN, and a priest.
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Listening to voices of the ACC
The Archbishop of Canterbury takes part in an ACC discussion group.
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Aground
A boat is dumped in a street of Hishonomaki, Miyagi, after being swept inshore by the tsunami. Photo: AFP/Getty
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Traffic flow
Navigating a street in the Brisbane suburb of Laidley.
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Candid talks
Dr Williams with President Robert Mugabe in Harare. Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP
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Women take their place
Women bishops line up at the 2008 Lambeth Conference.
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Richard's reading
Richard Sawrey was the Tikanga Pakeha delegate. He's recently returned from teaching pastoral care in a Fijian theological college.
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Shared commitment
The people who came from across the Pacific and from the UK for the IAFN consultation on violence and the family.
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Search goes on
Japanese soldiers search for bodies in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi, where up to 10,000 people may have died. Photo: Reuters
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The PNG experience
Mrs Jessica Ingen, from Papua New Guinea - whose husband is a newly ordained bishop in that province.
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Permission to land
Flight of the bishops to Rome. By Steve Bell in the London Guardian
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Off to Rome
Bishop John Broadhurst: cannot abide plans to appoint women bishops in the UK.
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On Jordan's bank...
The Archbishop of Canterbury chats with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan.
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Quandolita
Mrs Quandolita Reid-Enari is a teacher who advocates for women and works to stem family violence in Samoa.
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Gracious overtures
Dr Williams made a "crucial and gracious overture" to those who stayed away.
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Quandolita reports
Quandolita Reid-Enari from Samoa was chosen to report the responses of a women's caucus back to the full IAFN gathering.
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Tsunami rolls in
The tsunami hits Natori in Miyagi prefecture. Photo: Reuters
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Wounded healer
Rowan Williams: Issue of homosexuality a wound in the church's ministry.
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Polynesia's blessing
The Diocese of Polynesia delegates to the consultation pray and sing before their Archbishop's Wednesday evening contribution.
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Wasteland
A wheelchair sits forlorn amid the desolation of a town in northern Japan.
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Cecilia sharing the Wainuiomata story
The Rev Cecilia Rooderkerk explaining some of the history of her Wainuiomata Marae to the consultation delegates.
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Pioneer ordination
The Diocesan of Southwark, The Rt Rev Christopher Chessun (gold mitre) and area bishop Dr Richard Cheetham ordain Sr Veronica.
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Tweaked
Dr Williams with one of the children at the Shishu Bhavan orphanage, next to the Mother House in Kolkata.
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ACC reps stay in the picture
Abraham Yisa (Nigeria) and the Rev Janet Trisk (Southern Africa) follow the debate during an ACC plenary meeting in Kingston.
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Tsunami swamps city
The tsunami crashes over a street in Miyako City in north-eastern Japan. Photo: Reuters
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Giles goes
Giles Fraser - gone from St Paul's Cathedral in protest at plans to forcibly remove Occupy London Stock Exchange protestors from its steps.
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'Job well done'
President Obama thanks the military for taking out Osama bin Laden.
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Cairo in turmoil
Violence in the streets of Cairo.
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'Many other options for Sunday'
Archdeacon Christopher Page says there are ‘many other attractive options for Sunday morning.’ Geoff Howe for The Globe and Mail
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Presenting the Moana world view
On Wednesday evening, Archbishop Winston Halapua put the issue of violence in the family in a wider Pacific theological context.
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His warm congratulations
The Bishop of Kingston, Dr Richard Cheetham, congratulates Sr Veronica. Kingston is an episcopal area within the Diocese of Southwark.
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'No consensus'
Bishop Katharine Schori: "We have a variety of opinions on human sexuality."
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Dean gone now
The Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, The Rt Rev Graeme Knowles, has resigned with immediate effect.
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Pipped at the post?
Dean Jeffrey John: pipped at the post again?
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Men with a mission
Rev Tom Van Culin, from Hawaii, reports from the men's caucus. Ian Sparks (left) and John Rea (both from the UK) stand in support.
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Sealing the work done
During the final session of the consultation, Bishop Muru Walters prayed his blessing over each delegation's plan to counter violence.
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Archbishop cool on climate
Dr Rowan Williams preaches during an ecumenical celebration at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen. Photo: Heribert Proepper/AP
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Global South calls for repentance
Participants in the Fourth Anglican Global South to South Encounter outside St Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore.
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Far away and yet so close
London Kiwis gather for the Christchurch vigil at Westminster Cathedral. Photo: Luton Anderson
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'Let's share the burden'
Dr Rowan Williams: Society must share the burden of the recession together. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Entebbe summit
Bishops gather for the second meeting of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa in Entebbe. Photo: Stephen Wandera/AP
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Call for time limit on sexuality issue
Nigerian Bishop Ikechi Nwosu: he says Dr Williams must set a time limit on the listening process around homosexuality and the church.
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Life in the midst of death
An unidentified mother watches her baby who was born on March 12 at a shelter in Iwaki, Fukushima. Photo: Reuters
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D, from Numbulwar
Mrs Didamain Uibo, who is a school principal at Numbulwar, 800 km west of Darwin. Numbalwar is the site of an Anglican mission.
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Crucial voting
The result of the first House of Deputies’ vote on resolution D025. The vote on the final wording of the resolution was closer but still decisive.
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Canon
canon
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The bishop fronts up
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori speaks at the start of the Episcopal General Convention in Anaheim.
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Crowning glory
Westminster Abbey: soon to be fitted with a crown.
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York prods CoE synod
John Sentamu: the church must not shy from "an apportunity and an obligation."
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Mother church of the Communion
Canterbury Cathedral in the heart of Kent, England.
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Looking to the future
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.
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Naming the issues
Charles Waldegrave speaks at the men's caucus - that's George Kiriau, the secretary for the Province of Melanesia, in the foreground.
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'The Beloved Child'
Rev Dr Raymond Pelly, who delivered one of the keynote addresses in his Thursday sermon - entitled "The Beloved Child."
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Charles takes charge
Charles Waldegrave, centre, with ex PM Helen Clark and Hone Kaa at the time of the Section 59 repeal protests in 2007.
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Brisbane Archbishop anoints
Archbishop Philip Aspinal anoints Canon Deborah Broome at Rangiatea in 2008, during the Wellington diocese 150th celebrations.
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Smoothing the waters
Dr Williams: trying to set up a joint group to oversee the conversion process. Reuter photo.
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Limbering up for Lambeth
The newly elected Bishop of Perth leaves the Lambeth opening service. Photo: Ady Kerry/EPA
