Anglican Communion News Service, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:50:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Anglican Communion News Service, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Nicholls to serve on primates’ standing committee https://anglicanjournal.com/nicholls-to-serve-on-primates-standing-committee/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:00:33 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=171451 Anglican Communion News Service With additional reporting by Sean Frankling Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has been chosen by her fellow primates in the Americas region to serve on the Anglican Communion’s primates’ standing commit-tee. She succeeds the bishop of Panama, Julio Murray, who will shortly step down as archbishop […]

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]]> 171451 Anglican Communion’s ecumenical expert chosen as new president of Thorneloe University https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-communions-ecumenical-expert-chosen-as-new-president-of-thorneloe-university/ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-communions-ecumenical-expert-chosen-as-new-president-of-thorneloe-university/#respond Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:25:20 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=158571 Canon Dr. John Gibaut, currently director of Unity, Faith and Order at the Anglican Communion Office, is to leave his current role to become president, provost and vice-chancellor of Canada’s Thorneloe University. Gibaut will take up his new role on June 1, after the next meeting of the Trienniel Anglican Consultative Council in Hong Kong. […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-communions-ecumenical-expert-chosen-as-new-president-of-thorneloe-university/feed/ 0 158571 Anglican leaders conclude regional primates’ meeting with hope https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-leaders-conclude-regional-primates-meeting-with-hope/ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-leaders-conclude-regional-primates-meeting-with-hope/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:27:08 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157501 Anglican primates from the Americas and the Caribbean have concluded their regional meeting today (Thursday) with a commitment to continue meeting regularly and working together in the coming years. The three-day meeting, at the convent of the Sisterhood of St John the Divine in Toronto, was characterized as being “not just honest talks, but very […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-leaders-conclude-regional-primates-meeting-with-hope/feed/ 0 157501 Anglican leaders from the Americas gather in Toronto for regional Primates’ Meeting https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-leaders-from-the-americas-gather-in-toronto-for-regional-primates-meeting/ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-leaders-from-the-americas-gather-in-toronto-for-regional-primates-meeting/#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:56:56 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157461 The leaders of eight Anglican provinces whose churches cover the territory from Cape Horn to the Arctic are gathering in Toronto for a regional primates’ meeting.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-leaders-from-the-americas-gather-in-toronto-for-regional-primates-meeting/feed/ 0 157461 Birth of a new mission as ‘shining light’ Chile becomes Anglican Communion’s 40th province https://anglicanjournal.com/birth-of-a-new-mission-as-shining-light-chile-becomes-anglican-communions-40th-province/ https://anglicanjournal.com/birth-of-a-new-mission-as-shining-light-chile-becomes-anglican-communions-40th-province/#respond Mon, 05 Nov 2018 21:28:30 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157274 The Iglesia Anglicana de Chile—the Anglican Church of Chile—has been inaugurated as the latest province of the Anglican Communion in a service of joy and celebration in the capital, Santiago. It had been part of the province of South America but was given permission to have provincial status after sustained growth. More than 800 people, […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/birth-of-a-new-mission-as-shining-light-chile-becomes-anglican-communions-40th-province/feed/ 0 157274 Episcopal and Anglican leaders respond to anti-Semitic shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopal-and-anglican-leaders-respond-to-anti-semitic-shooting-at-pittsburgh-synagogue/ https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopal-and-anglican-leaders-respond-to-anti-semitic-shooting-at-pittsburgh-synagogue/#respond Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:57:03 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157211 Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church, and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby were among a number of Anglican leaders who joined Episcopal Bishop Dorsey McConnell, of Pittsburgh, in responding to the mass shooting at a synagogue, Saturday, October 27. Eleven people were killed and six more injured when a gunman shouting anti-Semitic […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/episcopal-and-anglican-leaders-respond-to-anti-semitic-shooting-at-pittsburgh-synagogue/feed/ 0 157211 Asia Bibi awaits judgment on final Supreme Court appeal against ‘blasphemy’ death penalty https://anglicanjournal.com/asia-bibi-awaits-judgment-on-final-supreme-court-appeal-against-blasphemy-death-penalty/ https://anglicanjournal.com/asia-bibi-awaits-judgment-on-final-supreme-court-appeal-against-blasphemy-death-penalty/#respond Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:27:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157168 Pakistan’s Supreme Court has heard the final appeal of a Christian mother of five who was sentenced to death for blasphemy—her crime was to drink from a water fountain used by Muslims.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/asia-bibi-awaits-judgment-on-final-supreme-court-appeal-against-blasphemy-death-penalty/feed/ 0 157168 Iglesia Anglicana de Chile confirmed as Anglican Communion’s 40th province https://anglicanjournal.com/iglesia-anglicana-de-chile-confirmed-as-anglican-communions-40th-province/ https://anglicanjournal.com/iglesia-anglicana-de-chile-confirmed-as-anglican-communions-40th-province/#respond Fri, 05 Oct 2018 20:06:51 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157160 The Iglesia Anglicana de Chile (IACH)—currently a diocese of the Anglican Church of South America­—will become the 40th province of the Anglican Communion.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/iglesia-anglicana-de-chile-confirmed-as-anglican-communions-40th-province/feed/ 0 157160 Evangelism bishop says Church of England is ‘coming back’ to England’s housing complexes https://anglicanjournal.com/evangelism-bishop-says-church-of-england-is-coming-back-to-englands-housing-complexes/ https://anglicanjournal.com/evangelism-bishop-says-church-of-england-is-coming-back-to-englands-housing-complexes/#respond Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:25:13 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157124 The bishop who chairs the Church of England’s Estates Evangelism Task Group has said that the church is returning to the country’s inner-city housing estates.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/evangelism-bishop-says-church-of-england-is-coming-back-to-englands-housing-complexes/feed/ 0 157124 Anglicans join call to UN for more help to internally displaced people https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-join-call-at-un-for-help-to-internally-displaced-people/ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-join-call-at-un-for-help-to-internally-displaced-people/#respond Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:54:37 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=157095 The secretary general of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, has joined a number of Anglican primates and other faith leaders calling on heads of state to support the world’s 40.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs).

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