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Getting together through Canada’

This Pentecost Sunday, May 27, Anglican and Lutheran leaders in the Holy Land will issue a joint pastoral letter informing their churches that they are

New funding formula approved

A new funding formula is a “major step” forward, says Archbishop David Ashdown, metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Rupert’s Land. Photo: Art Babych The

Bishop Michael Ingham and area women involved in healing and reconciliation present a prayer shawl on behalf of Anglicans at the TRC event in Victoria. Photo: Henriette Thompson

Hopes high that TRC hearings will kick-start new chapter

An Anglican archbishop has expressed the hope that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process will lay the foundation for healing and new relationships of “respect, dignity and understanding” between Canada’s aboriginal and non-aboriginal people.”

(L to R) Jean-Denis Hilaire, LWF project coordinator, and Naba Gurung, PWRDF humanitarian response coordinator look across at the hillside where the Gressier Model village will be built. Photo: Simon Chambers

Model village to equip Haitians

Work has begun on a $5.5 million model village in Gressier, the municipality west of Port-au-Prince that was one of the hardest hit by the

New Chair in Islamic studies joins Huron

Dr. Ingrid Mattson join Huron University College in London, Ont., as the inaugural London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic studies at its faculty of

Embrace newcomers, advises WCC leader

Keep the faith: Christian churches face the challenge of building ecumenical relationships with immigrant churches. Photo: Marites N. Sison Canada’s changing demographic and ecumenical landscape

Film examines the Virgin Mary

The film Our Lady looks into why the Virgin Mary has been such a compelling figure in religious history. Photo: Sky Light Pictures On March

Healing without hands

Father Michael Lapsley Photo: Vianney Carriere An Anglican priest and social justice activist from South Africa has urged faith communities in Canada to “seize the

The diocese of Ontario’s Synod Council has “suspended” four programs, including the diocesan newspaper, Dialogue, to balance its 2012 budget.

Diocese of Ontario “suspends” newspaper

On Nov. 29, the Synod Council of the Anglican diocese of Ontario “suspended” four of its programs and ministries to create a “credible, balanced budget”

Director to improve storytelling

Butter The director of communications for the Anglican Communion Office is working to help Anglicans and Episcopalians tell their stories. Jan Butter, who was appointed

Earl Sack (left), kept the sacred fire burning during the four-day Atlantic National Event. Photo: Marites N. Sison

Language warriors and more

In the 1990s, hundreds of survivors from Shubenacadie were the first to file a class action lawsuit against the federal government for loss of language and culture, and for physical and sexual abuse.

Parish supports clean water in North

Fueled by a desire to help support clean water initiatives in aboriginal communities in the North and the ministries of the local Anglican parish, about

Rob Dickson, chair of the financial management committee, briefs members of the Council of General Synod (CoGS) about the General Synod budget.

Balanced 2012 budget approved by CoGS

Mississauga, Ont.-The Council of General Synod (CoGS) has approved a balanced 2012 budget for the national church of $12.698 million. At its Nov. 18-20 meeting

VIDEOChurch apology

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, offers his church’s apology at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Halifax.

By the Numbers

Sources: Women and the Church (Watch), Canadian Churchman, Anglican Communion Office, Anglican Journal Circulation database 6: Current number of women members of the Canadian House

Residential school survivors speak out

Isabelle Knockwood was just four years old when she was sent to the Shubenacadie Residential School, which was run by the Roman Catholic Church from 1930 to 1966.

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