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Anglicans form the family of Christians closely related to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Whilst tracing their inheritance back to Christ and the earliest Christians and to the ancient Roman Catholic church, the sixteenth century Reformation was a crucial moment for Anglicanism.

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Home News Rev'd Rana receives Lambeth Award for interfaith work

Rev'd Rana receives Lambeth Award for interfaith work

Diocesan news Posted: 9 March 2022

Rev’d Rana Youab Khan has received a Lambeth Award for his support of and service to the Anglican Communion and interfaith dialogue.

Rev’d Rana was presented with the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation by Archbishop Justin Welby at a ceremony at Lambeth Palace.

Rana, who was born and brought up in Pakistan, has been involved with interfaith relations, justice and peace activities, and prison ministry in that country.

Although he comes from a Christian family, he was educated in a madrasa (primary school) attached to a mosque in Vehari, Pakistan. He served as advisor to the Bishop of Lahore on inter-religious relations.

A lecturer in the Hebrew language at the Oriental College, University of Punjab, he was the first Indian-Pakistani ordained priest appointed to the faculty of the University of Punjab since its foundation in 1870. He worked as the international interfaith dialogues assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion.

As well rector and leader of St Catwg’s Ministry Area he is area dean of the Greater Brecon Deanery and the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon’s Officer for World Mission. In the latter capacity, he has strengthened the diocese’s links with the Diocese of Asante Mampong in Ghana. Rana is also the Church in Wales advisor on inter-religions relations and is chair of the Church Mission Society’s Asia Forum. He continues to advise Lambeth on issues related to Pakistan.

“I am grateful to the Archbishop of Canterbury for acknowledging my services to the Anglican Communion and interfaith dialogue. I am so thankful to my friends from other faith communities in the UK and elsewhere; without their help and assistance, I could not do what I have done to strengthen interfaith dialogue and reconciliation in the Anglican Communion. We are living in such a fragmented world where relationships are just being eaten by mistrust and hatred; I shall continue supporting dialogue between people of different faiths and none and the reconciliation work within the Anglican Communion,” Rana said.

Archbishop of Wales Andrew John said: “I’m delighted to congratulate Rana on this award. His work has enabled different faith traditions to listen and hear each other in a respectful and engaged manner. I know he will continue to offer, well into the future, a ministry which can only deepen understanding and good will.”