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  • March 14, 2007
    Small is beautiful in global development, says Williams

    Churches can help people act small and think big in the struggle againts poverty and injustice, says the Archbishop of Canterbury on a trip to Africa

  • March 2, 2007
    Archbishop of Canterbury to visit South Africa and Angola

    The Archbishop of Canterbury is to visit South Africa and Angola as part of a visit to the Anglican Province of Southern Africa next week - 5th - 13th March 2007.

  • February 2, 2007
    Archbishop of Canterbury backs restorative alternatives to failing prisons

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has criticized society's over-reliance on prisons ‚Ä' and is calling for a commission of enquiry into the penal justice system in the UK, which he says is failing both offenders and victims because it is not restorative.

  • January 29, 2007
    Archbishop of Canterbury condemns abuse of Holocaust memory and anti-Semitism

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the world's 77 million Anglicans, has denounced the political manipulation of the Nazi Holocaust for current political ends, and has called for a renewed struggle against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms.

  • January 14, 2007
    Archbishop decries Anglican squabbling and highlights Africa's plight

    The Archbishop of Southern Africa has responded robustly to a recent threat made by some African Anglican heads who say that they will not attend the forthcoming Primates Meeting in Tanzania in February 2007 because of the presence of US Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.

  • January 7, 2007
    Archbishop of Canterbury expresses fears over future of Anglicanism

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has expressed concern about the ‚Äúrecrimination and bitterness‚Äù that may accompany a formal split in the 77 million worldwide Anglican Communion ‚Ä' though he admits that ‚Äúit's not the worst thing in the world‚Äù.

  • January 1, 2007
    Williams should have helped indict Saddam to avert war, says MP

    Welsh Labour MP Ann Clwyd, a long-term campaigner for human rights in Iraq, has said that Dr Rowan Williams did not do enough to get Saddam Hussein indicted for mass murder before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ‚Ä' when he was Archbishop of Wales.

  • December 26, 2006
    God's love in Jesus is revolutionary, says Archbishop of Canterbury

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, says that the care he saw being given to a baby from an economically deprived family in Bethlehem during his pilgrimage there was a shining reminder of the Christmas message ‚Ä' that God's revolutionary love comes to us as a gift, in the face of all life's trials and joys.

  • December 23, 2006
    Bethlehem will not be forgotten, says Archbishop of Canterbury

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has told the people of Bethlehem that neither they, nor the pressures that they live under are forgotten in the West. During a pilgrimage to Bethlehem where he has joined three other senior English church leaders, Dr Williams addressed the city's civic representatives, stressing that problems had to be solved by people working together.

  • December 20, 2006
    Archbishop of Canterbury calls for a 'reality check' on religion in public life

    The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has outlined some of his personal hopes for the coming year in an article written for the Big Issue Magazine ‚Ä' which is sold by homeless people on the streets of many of Britain's cities. They include a ‚Äúreality check‚Äù in the debate about religion in the nation's life