Why Jerusalem Sunday?
Anglican Journal Staff
April 4, 2014
On June 1, Canadian Anglicans will observe Jerusalem Sunday for the first time.
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On June 1, Canadian Anglicans will observe Jerusalem Sunday for the first time.
Archbishop ofCanterbury Justin Welby and his wife, Caroline, are expected to arrivein Canada on Monday, April 7, for a ” personal, pastoral visit,” withArchbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Michael Thompson, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada, announced today that effective immediately he will also serve as acting director of General Synod’s Communications and Information Resources department.
The Anglican Church of Canada has pledged to help break the silence about the plight of missing and murdered aboriginal women, even as it urged its faithful to uphold victims, their families and communities in prayer.
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, has invited 20 bishops from the Anglican Communion to join him in a “process of discussion and discernment” about what churches can do in the face of climate change and ecological degradation.
For the first time in history, Anglican, Roman Catholic and Muslim leaders have agreed to work together to combat modern slavery and human trafficking, calling them “crimes against humanity.”
The diocese of Brandon issued a letter informing parishioners that onMarch 10, the Crown withdrew charges against the Rev. Noah Njegovan.
No frame is wasted on first-time feature filmmaker Marta Cunningham’s Valentine Road, a powerful documentary about the 2008 murder of openly gay California eighth-grader Lawrence (“Larry”) King, by his classmate and crush, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney.
“Scores of female church workers were massacred last month as they sought refuge at a church in the central South Sudanese town of Bor,” according to a report from World Watch Monitor (WWM).
The bishop of the Anglican diocese of Huron, Robert Bennett, has deposed the Rev. George Ferris, a retired Anglican priest who faces up to five-and-a-half years in prison for five counts of sexual offences dating back to the 1980s.
Bishop John Charles Bothwell, who ordained the first female priests in the Anglican diocese of Niagara in 1976, died on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the age of 87.
Archdeacon Richard Berryman, a priest, journalist and author, died onJan. 27 after a prolonged battle with kidney disease at the age of 82.
The Anglican Church of Canada has urged the Canadian government to issue a strong statement calling for “an immediate cessation of hostilities and an unconditional ceasefire” by all warring parties to the armed conflict in South Sudan.
The Anglican Church of Canada and The Episcopal Church have entered into a new partnership that will enable them to “maximize resources of mission” and cooperate in fostering their relationships with Anglican churches in sub-Saharan Africa.
Aptly released for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the AnglicanCommunion Office has produced a study guide to the World Council ofChurches (WCC) document The Church: Towards a Common Vision, the result of 20 years of study and dialogue among the council’s member churches, who represent most of the world’s churches.
Anglican Alliance, an Anglican Communion relief and developmentagency, reports that an appeal launched by Church of Bangladesh with theAlliance in September has raised US $16,000 for garment workers andtheir families who suffered as a result of the collapse of the RanaPlaza factory in Bangladesh in April last year. More than 1,000 peoplewere killed.
The bishops of the Church in Wales are holding open meetings across Wales during January and February, asking for input as they begin to create
The Primate’s World Relief andDevelopment Fund (PWRDF) has released an initial grant of $20,000 to ACTAlliance’s relief efforts to support the tens of thousands of peoplefleeing armed conflict in South Sudan.
The Vancouver School of Theology (VST) is selling its Iona Building, inthe theological neighbourhood of the University of British Columbia(UBC) campus, to UBC for an agreed price of $28 million.
The Ontario government has approved the Trustees of the General Synod Pension Plan’s request for a three-year window to improve the plan’s funding level and avoid immediate pension reductions of 20 to 30 per cent.
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