Communication Vital to Meeting of Anglican Bishops
Episcopal News Service. January 23, 1997 [97-1672J]
Allan Reeder, Anglican Media in Australia
(ENS) A conference of the world's Anglican bishops held every 10 years will "count for nothing" if the message if not communicated to church members around the world, contended Archbishop Robin Eames, primate of the Anglican Church of Ireland, who will serve as liaison between the bishops and the media. The team which will cover the Lambeth Conference, expected to draw more than 800 bishops for a three-week session to discuss common problems and issues, met recently in New York to shape a strategy. "A gathering of this many church leaders at the same time and place is a very rare event so when journalists and producers from the world's major media outlets start knocking on the door, we need to be ready," said James Rosenthal, director of communications for the Anglican Communion Office in London, who will head the 50-member team. Among the items they discussed were plans to print a daily newspaper, set up a conference radio station and compile a video to interpret the event.