In a new video released earlier this week to mark the one year countdown until the conference begins – with the start and the end of the conference being hosted at Canterbury Cathedral – members of the conference’s design group spoke of their hopes for Lambeth 2020.

The Archbishop of Cape Town, Dr Thabo Makgoba, who chairs the group, said that the conference must declare that Anglicans were offering themselves as “bridge-builders” to a world, which needs peace and reconciliation.

He said: “We are there for peace, to address some of the social needs. We are there, in our brokenness, to look at growth – to rebuild trust in the world.”

Echoing the theme of next year’s event; ‘God’s Church for God’s World.’

The Lambeth Conference is a hugely significant event in the life of the Anglican Church. It brings together all active bishops and their spouses from across the worldwide Anglican Communion, which is more than 165 countries.

The aim is to seek God’s direction for the future of the Anglican/Episcopalian Church.

Cathrine Ngangira, from Zimbabwe is training for ordination in Durham and was a youth representative at the Anglican Consultative Council in 2016 in Lusaka.

On speaking about her hopes for The Lambeth Conference, she said: “I think the message of hope is that we are all God’s children. God’s church for all people. We are all…

Christian street preacher, 64-year-old, Oluwole Ilesanmi has been offered the money in exemplary damages from the Metropolitan Police in relation to his false arrest, imprisonment and unlawful detention.

On February 23rd, Pastor Oluwole was preaching outside Southgate Underground station. A member of the public, Mrs Ambrosine Shitrit, saw a tall hooded man squaring up to a street preacher. Thinking that the preacher was about to be assaulted, she pulled over and started filming with her phone.

 
Two police officers shortly arrived in response to a 999 call claiming that the preacher had been “Islamophobic”. The hooded man, who had identified himself as a Muslim, left the immediate vicinity and the police began asking the preacher to leave the area for supposedly “breaching the peace.”
The video went viral online, shows Pastor Oluwole explaining his freedom to continue preaching to the officers, who arrest him, handcuffing him and taking his Bible.
Pastor Oluwole was driven five miles away from the scene, beyond the area he could use his Oyster card, and left with no means to pay for his ticket home. Police initially denied that this had happened; later changing their story after evidence backed the pastor’s claim. 
Motivated by the desire not to see other street preachers treated the way he was, Pastor Oluwole authorised the Christian Legal Centre to write a…