This New Year’s Honours list includes seven Aotearoa New Zealanders whose work for the mission of Te Haahi Mihinare - the Anglican Church received honourable mention as part of their award.

The Anglican Pacifist Fellowship has welcomed the opening of Dunedin’s Archibald Baxter Peace Garden, which is Aotearoa New Zealand’s first memorial for conscientious objectors to military conscription.

This year’s Anglo-Catholic Hui has called on Anglican-Catholics in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia to turn back to the basics to find sustenance for Christian life and mission in the 21st century.
• Hui workshops dig down to catholic roots

The 2021 Anglo-Catholic Hui opened in Christchurch last night, with a high mass at St Michael and All Angels’ Anglican Church in central Christchurch and the first of four keynote addresses on spiritual disciplines offering ‘Food for the Journey’.

The 2021 Anglo-Catholic Hui is welcoming Anglicans interested in traditions and practices of spiritual nourishment to attend its gathering on ‘Food for the Journey’ in Ōtautahi-Christchurch this August.

Churches have played an important part in our nations’ 2020 pandemic story, says Kinder Librarian and archivist Judith Bright, but unless we record our experiences, our faith communities’ insights will likely be lost in the story.

This week Bishop George Connor was surprised to find that two momentous events in the history of our nation are still passing by beneath much of our Church’s notice, even though we have secured them a place in our Church’s commemorations.

Archbishops of Aotearoa and New Zealand have called for Anglicans to join in dawn prayers to mark ANZAC day from home. 

The Anglican Church has returned a historic artefact of the first Māori King to the safekeeping of the Kīngitanga and the Waikato-Tainui iwi. 
• 160 year old flag given back in Auckland ceremony
• First Māori King's flag return to the Kīngitanga
• Anglican Church returns 160 year-old flag to Kīngitanga
• Pōtatau flag returned to Kīngitanga