Churches across Canada have a role to play in the current opioid overdose crisis, says the Rev. Monique Stone, the rector of the three-point Parish of Huntley in the diocese of Ottawa.
Cornerstone Housing for Women-a community ministry of the diocese of Ottawa-has launched a $6.8 million project to convert the former “Mother House” of a Roman Catholic religious community into a home for 42 women needing safe, affordable housing.
Bishop John Chapman, of the diocese of Ottawa, is encouraging federal finance minister Bill Morneau to place a high priority on the needs of “the least among us“ in the 2017 federal budget, to be handed down in February or March.
Anglicans at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa rang in the New Year along with Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his wife, Sharon, at a noon Choral Eucharist Jan. 1.
It was standing-room-only at a multi-faith solidarity rally in an Ottawa synagogue November 20, following a spate of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti attacks over six days.
Senator Murray Sinclair, who was chair of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), praised the Anglican Church of Canada for it efforts to further reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, but says more needs to be done.
The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) has assured the Catholic bishops of Canada that the council is not an interest group, but an ecclesial entity that aims to find consensus rather than taking a position by majority vote.
The largest group of Ottawa Anglicans to visit Iqaluit since renowned concert pianist Angela Hewitt performed at St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral hopes their journey was just the tip of the iceberg for more such Arctic adventures.
St. James Anglican Church in the diocese of Ottawa has opened the first scattering garden for cremated ashes in Eastern Ontario.
A First Nations university professor struck a passionate chord in a speech at the annual general meeting of Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) in Ottawa June 3, noting, “The days of the Indian agent and the missionary are over.”
KAIROS Canada brought its popular blanket exercise to the steps of Parliament Hill May 31 to help people understand Canada’s history from an Indigenous perspective.
Long time Anglican chaplain Col. the Ven. Nigel Shaw was ordained a bishop and consecrated as bishop ordinary of the Anglican Military Ordinariate in a dual ceremony at Christ Church Cathedral May 28.
The church is entering a new partnership with Indigenous people with its commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action #48, says National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald.
The Anglican Church of Canada and seven other Canadian churches and religious organizations have declared their commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) Call to Action #48.
No one was injured in an early-morning fire, January 30, at an emergency shelter operated by Cornerstone Housing for Women, a ministry of the diocese of Ottawa.
Churches in the national capital area are sharing their long-term experience in refugee work with wider community groups as Syrian refugees continue to arrive in Canada.
The National Arts Centre (NAC) has launched a series of events that it hopes will “shine the spotlight on Indigenous storytelling and reconciliation.”
The first election of an Anglican Bishop Ordinary to the Canadian Armed Forces will be held March 5 followed by an installation ceremony at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa May 28.
In his annual New Year’s address at Christ Church Cathedral, the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, said the church must ensure that the interests and well-being of children, in Canada and around the world, are upheld.
The six-year mandate of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) ended December 15 with the release of a multi-volume report that ushers in what the commissioners called a “new era in reconciliation for Canada.”
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