The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund is sending a “solidaritygrant” of $5,000 to assist with relief efforts in Lac Mégantic, Que.,where a July 6 train derailment and explosion is presumed to have killed47 people; victims are still being identified.
Christchurch New Zealand’s transitional cardboard cathedral has become sodden following heavy rainfall in late June, but a church spokesperson expressed confidence that the project will still be completed next month.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz has expressed his sympathy and offered his church’s prayers to the community of Lac-Mégantic, where at least 15 have been killed and more than 30 buildings were destroyed after a runaway train hurtled into the centre of town and exploded.
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The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is sendinga $15,000 grant to the Anglican diocese of Calgary to help thoseaffected by the severe floods that recently hit Calgary and southernAlberta.
The University of Manitoba has been chosen as the host site for the National Research Centre (NRC) on Residential Schools, which will house the permanent record of Canada’s Indian residential school system.
A fire gutted St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Morinville, diocese of Edmonton, early Sunday morning. The cause of the fire is still being investigated by the fire department’s legal office.
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Canadian church representatives are about to embark on the Womenof Courage Tour, a KAIROS Canada-led delegation to the easternDemocratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The British government is now closer to passing legislation to legalizesame-sex marriages. After two days of debate this week, during which theArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby made a speech outlining thereasons he could not support the bill as it is written, peers in theHouse of Lords voted to approve the bill.
The College of Emmanuel and St. Chad has been given new life for at least one more school year. Last June, it was announced that the theological school in Saskatoon would close, at least temporarily while a restructuring took place, but the college announced on May 23 that it would operate for the 2013-2014 school year.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund is accepting donations for relief efforts in Oklahoma, following the tornado that devastated Moore, a suburb south of Oklahoma City, earlier this week.
The national church’s Anglican Journal, the diocese of Ottawa’s Crosstalk and the diocese of Quebec’s Gazette won several awards at the Canadian Church Press Awards on May 17.
Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria is celebrating the return of artifacts stolen earlier this week.
London,Ont.’s Huron University College presented three honorary degrees tothree distinguished people at its theology convocation on May 9.Governor General David Johnston received a doctor of divinity degree,while Archbishop Thabo Makgabo, primate of the Anglican Church ofSouthern Africa, and Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, both received honorary doctorate degrees.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has announced that it will contribute a $1,5000 grant to aid victims of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan province in China on April 20. The quake and its aftershocks killed more than 200 people and injured thousands.
The ecumenical social justice organization Kairos suggests thatCanadians observe Earth Day today by joining its campaign to protectCanadian waters and build right relations with aboriginal people.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, willlead a delegation of Anglicans expected to participate in the Truth andReconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) Quebec National Event,scheduled April 24 to 27, in Montreal.
The Anglican Journal received 10 awards, including two awards of excellence (first prize) and two awards of merit (second place) at the annual Associated Church Press (ACP) conference in Indianapolis, April 3 to 6.
Desmond Tutu, the Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, has been awarded this year’s 2013 Templeton Prize, the world’s largest annual prize, which
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