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September 3, 2014
The oldest surviving copy of The Dominion Churchman-now called the Anglican Journal-dates back to Aug. 22, 1878.
The oldest surviving copy of The Dominion Churchman-now called the Anglican Journal-dates back to Aug. 22, 1878.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has issued an appeal for Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, which has been responding to the needs of
The Anglican-run University College of Emmanuel and St. Chad has awarded an honorary fellowship to the seventh bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon, Donald Bolen.
Over 70 Anglican and Lutheran bishops, clergy and laity from across Canada on Wednesday began sharing stories of both success and failure concerning congregational health and renewal, at the National Consultation on Congregational Vitality being held at the Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre, May 14 to 16.
The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has agreed that all submissions to the Commission on the Marriage Canon will be posted, with attribution, on the Anglican Church of Canada’s website, anglican.ca.
At its spring meeting, the House of Bishops departed from its usual agenda, packed with briefings and program updates, to days spent on a retreat that combined eucharists, Bible studies, moments of reflection, quiet walks and group conversations.
If prayer is “a gathering into the heart,” as former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams put it, and “a longing of the soul,” as Mahatma Gandhi said, a special prayer recently composed by the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada expresses both intentions.
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After a 12-hour day of back-to-back engagements, a jet-lagged Justin Welby, the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, sat down for a 15-minute interview with the Anglican Journal late Tuesday evening, April 8.
Since his enthronement in March 2013 as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has visited 14 churches and provinces of the Anglican Communion. He and his wife, Catherine, are expected to arrive in Toronto this afternoon for a two-day “personal, pastoral visit.”
In a few weeks, the Anglican Church of Canada’s commission on the marriage canon will invite Anglicans in Canada and across the Communion, as well church ecumenical partners, to offer their views about changing the marriage canon (church law) to allow same-sex marriage.
The seventh and final national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) began in Edmonton March 27 with TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair stating that the goal of reconciliation must be to establish “a relationship of mutual respect” between indigenous and non-indigenous people of Canada.
![“There have been so many people over the years who have worked really hard to establish good relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous people,” says Anglican Healing Fund co-ordinator Esther Wesley. “Our [church] apology hasn’t been empty.” Photo: Marites N. Sison](https://i0.wp.com/anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/estherwesley.jpg?fit=800%2C529&ssl=1)
Over time, in so many different places and at different times, Anglican Healing Fund co-ordinator Esther Wesley kept hearing people refer to “apologies, empty apologies” whenever they talked about issues related to the sad legacy of Indian residential schools in Canada.
On Wednesday evenings, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., the halls of St. Alban’s Cathedral in Prince Albert, Sask., is abuzz with activity as young and old gather over a typical meal of bannock, soup or stew, vegetables and fruits.
A refugee camp in northern Uganda was the last place the Rev. Reuben Garang expected to be reunited with his brothers and sisters. They had been separated for 25 years, following the second Sudanese civil war in the 1980s.
Canadian Roman Catholics have expressed the hope that the Anglican Church of Canada would seek input from its ecumenical partners as it continues discussion concerning a resolution to amend the church’s marriage canon to allow same-sex marriage.
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Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, today announced the appointment of the members of a commission that will carry out a broad consultation about changing the marriage canon (church law) to allow same-sex marriage.
Judy Smith-Martin waited 32 years for Kateri Tekakwitha to become the first Mohawk saint, and when the Vatican set her canonization for Oct. 21, she knew she had to go to Rome to fulfill a promise.
Kateri Tekakwitha was beatified in 1980 by Pope John Paul II.
The national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) is urging Canadians to be generous in supporting relief efforts for Syrian refugees in
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