With the deepening conflict in the Middle East, Action by Churches Together (ACT) Alliance, a global grouping of church-based agencies working in emergencies worldwide, has announced that it is working with local partners to provide support for civilians who have been wounded and displaced by the ongoing Israeli operation against Palestinian militants in Gaza.
Archdeacon Paul Feheley has been named the new national director of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer Canada (AFP-C).
Residents of Moncton and people acrossCanada are mourning the loss of three RCMP officers who were killed inthe line of duty by a gunman last week.
The Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue, at the end of their fifth meeting May 22 to 24, said they have come to realize that reconciliation is “far beyond agreeing to disagree” but is in fact about seeking “not only to tolerate but to understand.”
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has been awardeda 2014 Civil Society Effectiveness Award for a program that helps itspartners provide bicycle and boat ambulances to remote communities inMozambique, Burundi and Bangladesh.
Participants at the National Consultation on Congregational Vitality ended their meeting May 14-16 with a call to continue sharing resources and conversations around creating healthy and vital parishes across Canada.
The bishop of the diocese of the Arctic, David Parsons, is urging every Anglican in his diocese to give an additional $20 a week for the next year and a half so that it can pay off its remaining $1.9 million debt from the construction of St. Jude’s Cathedral by 2015.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is urging Canadian Anglicans to help the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) raise $45,000 to train 150 people in sustainable farming techniques in Cuba.
Archdeacon David Edwards was elected as coadjutor bishop for thediocese of Fredericton at a synod on May 10. Bishop-elect Edwards waselected on the fourth ballot. There were five other nominees.
With no clear end in sight for the conflict in South Sudan, the heads of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are urging their faithful to pray for “a lasting and meaningful peace” in the world’s newest state.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has asked Canadian Anglicans to pray for the safe return of more than 220 Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted nearly three weeks ago by the radical Islamic group, Boko Haram.
The Anglican Journal was recognized with 11 awards, including one for general excellence in the national newspaper category, at the 2014 Canadian Church Press Convention held April 30 to May 2, in Winnipeg.
The Anglican Journal received 15 awards, including an Award of Excellence (first prize) in the category of General Excellence, Best in Class for national or international newspaper, at the annual Associated Church Press held at Chicago’s historic Palmer House Hilton, April 23 to 26. The awards recognized work in 2013.
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal of a lawsuitfrom parishioners of St. Aidan’s Church in Windsor, Ont., who left theAnglican Church of Canada in 2008 to join the Anglican Network in Canada(ANIC), ending a long legal battle over the church property and a trustfund.
Until you watch this documentary film, you won’t realize how much the biggest Hollywood films may have influenced the way you view Arabs, oftentimes in oh-so-subtle ways.
An independent film about a Palestinian Christian single mother from the West Bank, who moves with her teenage son from a small town to Chicago.
Directed by Israeli Yuval Adler, who co-wrote the script with Muslim Palestinian journalist Ali Waked, the film revolves around the bond that develops between an Israeli secret service officer and his young Palestinian informant, Sanfur.
Two old friends-one Palestinian, one Jewish-reconnect after years of physical and cultural separation, in this powerful and uplifting documentary by CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault.
An Oscar-nominated documentary based on a Palestinian farmer’s video diary of the turmoil in his West Bank village of Bil’in.
As a part of a mutually agreed court settlement of a defamation of character lawsuit, David Jenkins has apologized to Bishop Michael Bird of the diocese of Niagara “for any suffering he has experienced as a result of blog postings” on his blog Anglican Samizdat.
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