Joan Antcliffe MBE 1921 – 2019 I first met Joan in 1993 at Bishop Paulino Manhique’s enthronement, when she made what was to be her final visit to Niassa with her colleague from the war days in Messumba, the beloved nurse, Irene Wheeler (who served......
Bishop Andre Soares has just visited the UK and spent time with ALMA parishes and also MANNA friends. It was wonderful that he could visit St Clement’s Toxteth where there has been a long standing link to the Diocese of Angola. St Clements was the......
Earlier this year, a new church for Namacunde, Diocese of Angola was finished and inaugurated by Bishop Andre Soares. It has been a jointly funded project with St Nicholas’ Chiswick, ALMA and MANNA and has been wonderful to see the stages of progress and communication......
In mid March, Rev Joe Moffatt, MANNA trustee and a Vicar in Teddington with an ALMA link church went to visit Nampula & Pemba, Mozambique to be part of the Inauguration of the New Anglican Missionary Diocese of Nampula & visit his link churches in......
It was great to hear that the first piece of news we heard from the New Missionary Diocese of Nampula, was that they were running a Rooted in Jesus training course for their clergy and leadership. Rooted in Jesus is a group course in Christian discipleship......
Rev Carla Vicencio Prior, MANNA Trustee and Link with Lebombo Diocese pictured above with Edna & Fatucha, ordinands from the diocese and Bishop Vicente Msosa from Niassa. A visa that arrived at the last minute by a rushing postman a few hours before her......
It is with much excitement that we announce the creation of the New Missionary Diocese of Nampula, Mozambique with Bishop Manuel Ernesto as the Missionary Bishop! The diocese will be inaugurated on 16th March by Archbishop Rt Rev Thabo Makgoba and we look forward to......
When you ask one of the Bishops in Mozambique & Angola, what they would like help with, one of the comments that comes back time and time again is – “help with theological training, refreshing, resources etc”. Therefore, this is something we are trying to......
Revd Canon Dr Helen Van Koevering who was the Director of Ministry in Niassa and is now a MANNA trustee has recently completed a doctoral thesis entitled; ‘Mission from the Middle: Spontaneous Growth of Church Communities, Community Priests and Spirituality in the Diocese of Niassa,......
At the beginning of August 2017, on invitation of the Diocese of Angola, Dr Revd Marcus Throup from the Diocese of Winchester went to Angola to deliver short day theological conferences in 3 locations to resource and inspire clergy and church leaders. Marcus is a theological......