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December 23, 2014
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We wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Our office closes for the holidays on the 24th, and we’ll back
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, called for prayers for the families of the 132 children and nine staff members killed in the Dec. 16 attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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A national consultation on anti-racism training held Nov. 6 drew 35 participants to South Surrey, B.C., on unceded Coast Salish territory, land of Semiahmoo.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary, the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, has issued a statementexpressing sadness and concern and condemning the violent attack in aJerusalem synagogue Nov. 18 that left four worshippers and one policemandead and many injured.
In the wake of the deadly shooting that rocked Ottawa and the rest of Canada Oct. 22, religious leaders and government officials are gathering for an interfaith service, A Prayer for Ottawa, to be held at Christ Church Anglican Cathedral on Sunday, Oct. 26.
In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette on Oct. 3, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby addressed speculation that the next Lambeth Conference, which is usually held every 10 years and was expected to be in 2018, might be postponed.
The Anglican Journal welcomes André Forget as its new staff writer and social media lead.
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Just ahead of a large-scale climate march planned to take place in New York City on Sept. 21 and a one-day climate summit at UN headquarters on Sept. 23, leaders of Anglican, Episcopal and Lutheran churches in Canada and the U.S. have issued a joint pastoral message on climate change.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is calling on Christians worldwide to observe the International Day of Prayer for Peace on Sept. 21.
Religious and indigenous leaders from Canada and the United States today urged U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to begin negotiations that would “right historic wrongs” and promote “water stewardship” in the Columbia River Treaty.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is responding to the Ebola crisis in Western Africa by sending $15,000 through the Action by Churches Together (ACT) Alliance to help people in Liberia detect symptoms and prevent the spread of the disease.
The Anglican Foundation of Canada’s Kids Helping Kids Fund has a special Hope Bear for college and university students. College Bear comes with a hand-knitted scarf depicting the colours of a student’s college/university and a special prayer card.
Eleven international Christian and Muslim groups have issued an urgent appeal to the United Nations and the League of Arab States to address the “horrific”
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has announced that it will send an initial grant of $10,000 through the ACT Alliance to help aid some of the more than one million people displaced by violent conflict in northern and western Iraq.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is calling for leaders in Israel and Gaza to immediately end the violence and seek a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict.
As a five-hour temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel expired and fighting resumed today, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, added his voice to the many calling for an end to the violence.
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