Reconciliation is more than just a recognition and admission of things that the church has done wrong, says the Rev. Jason Pollick, incumbent at St.
A long-forgotten Canadian hero buried in an unmarked grave in an Anglican cemetery near Almonte, Ont., for more than a century now has his own
Non-indigenous people need to work through their own feelings of guilt and shame in order to make true reconciliation attempts, says Melanie Delva, reconciliation animator
Having reached the age of 100, Canon Ken Cowan is ready to go to the next level. His 101st birthday on March 23, that is.
Representatives of five social justice ministries in Ottawa took turns offering prayers for liberation from bondage at an ecumenical worship service January 21 marking the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, an international Christian ecumenical event observed annually January 18 to 25.
The primate of the Anglican Church of Canada is hoping Anglicans across the country will give a “strong endorsement” to the initiative of the World Council of Churches (WCC) aimed at promoting child protection.
Two Anglican cathedrals in Ontario have joined the Community of the Cross of Nails (CCN), a reconciliation ministry of the Church of England’s Coventry Cathedral.
Archbishop Suheil Dawani, primate of the Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East, has been appointed *Canon of St. James of Jerusalem for Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa.
An Anglican bishop, along with a coalition of leading anti-poverty and housing advocates, has urged the federal government to adopt a “rights-based” approach in its
The truth is revealed in the “musty documents” of church archive collections, says Harry Huskins, executive archdeacon of the Anglican diocese of Algoma. “And it
Anglican churches in Canada are getting top marks for the way they interact with people in their communities and how they handle pastoral challenges. “Instead
It was like a frosh week pub crawl, but without the drinking and bar-hopping. About 80 University of Ottawa students fanned out in teams from
As the nation prepared for Canada 150, Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa held a service June 30 to commemorate the sesquicentennial by honouring Canada’s First Peoples.
A state of emergency declared weeks ago in a remote First Nation community in Manitoba remains in effect as Indigenous Anglican church leaders make plans to travel to the area June 13.
Much has been reported about the abuses experienced by students in Indian residential schools, but a new project launched with the help of the Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation aims to help survivors and their families move on in their healing journey.
Organized by the Mennonite Church Canada and the Christian Peacemaker Teams, the 600-kilometre “Pilgrimage for Indigenous Rights” from Kitchener, Ont., to Ottawa had the support of several Anglican clergy, parishioners and churches.
The environmental threat posed by today’s “principalities and powers” is one of the great spiritual issues of our time, National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald says.
Christ Church in Ottawa marks its 120th anniversary as a cathedral this year, but along with the celebrations comes word that the heritage church is urgently in need of repair.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that China’s leaders are “deeply fearful of any manifestation of religious belief,” since it is “perpetually insecure about its hold on power,” said David Mulroney, Canada’s former ambassador to China.
A delegation from the Philippines that includes an Anglican bishop wants the government to appoint an ombudsperson to monitor Canadian mining operations overseas and to support formal peace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front.
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