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    Diana Swift is an award-winning writer and editor with 30 years’ experience in newspaper and magazine editing and production. In January 2011, she joined the Anglican Journal as a contributing editor.

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The pope spoke out against artificial procreation and trying to assume the place of the Creator at last week’s Vatican infertility conference. Photo: Mimmo Ferraro

No assisted reproduction, says Pope

In a Feb 25 address marking the end of a Vatican conference on infertility, Pope Benedict XVI articulated a narrow context for the conception of

Mark Dunwoody and sons, Ricky, 15, and Dylan, 11. Photo: contributed

Into a cold climate

Dynamic Irishman Mark Dunwoody of County Cork, Ireland, will soon leave the Emerald Isle for Quebec and the position of youth ministry consultant to the

Transforming a broken church

More contemporary music was part of the makeover. The Apostles’ Creed was removed from the service and a full-time children’s and youth worker hired. Photo:

In God’s slipstream

Staying close to God makes it easier to move forward, says priest. Photo: Herbert Kratky : Shutterstock.com At the Feb. 2-4 Vital Church Planting conference

Bullfighter, spy, cop, priest

The Rev. Perry Smith Photo: contributed What’s the best background for becoming an Episcopal priest? A stint as a teenage toreador? A year in a

Finding the right words

Since 1984, the Anglican Communion has promoted the Marks of Mission as a resource to help local missioners focus their tasks. To date, there are

New faces and places of church

VCP conference keynote speaker, the Rev. David Male Photo: Michael Hudson Jesus conducted his mission on the hillside, by the wayside and at the seaside.

Save the rails

“The Anglican diocese of Quebec and the Roman Catholic diocese of Gaspé “are profoundly disturbed” at the lack of government support for the Matapédia-Gaspé rail

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg says Italy wrongly returned African refugees to Libya without thought for their safety. Photo: Fred Schaerli

WCC applauds rights ruling

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has applauded a landmark decision by the European Court of Human Rights, which held Italy responsible for violating the

One of seven recently discovered Christian papyri may date from the century in which Jesus lived. Photo: Lukiyanova Natalia / frenta

Earliest fragment of Mark’s gospel found

A New Testament expert says that seven recently discovered papyri may contain the earliest known version of the Gospel of Mark-dating to the first century,

Archbishop Fred Hiltz follows Cuba’s Bishop Griselda Delgado at a pre-synod service in Havana. Photo: Andrea Mann

New era of expansion for Cuban church

Most Canadians visiting Cuba in February are there for the sun, the sea and the mojitos. But early this month, Archbishop Fred Hiltz led a

Militant atheist Richard Dawkins says faith is a spent force in Britain and should not affect policy. Photo: Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock.com

Atheist poll: U.K. Christians not religious

A survey commissioned by Richard Dawkins, Britain’s high priest of atheism, reports that U.K. residents who call themselves Christian show very low levels of Christian

Christchurch Cathedral after the Feb. 2011 earthquake. Photo: Gabriel, Wikimedia Commons

Christ’s mission is done by people, not buildings

Engineering reports expected in March will help decide the fate of New Zealand’s earthquake-wracked Christchurch Cathedral. Thanks to relentless aftershocks, the cathedral “is slowing rocking

The Rev. Dr. Marilyn McCord Adams says the covenant was born of moral indignation with punishing intent. Photo: courtesy Anglican Taonga

New patron slams Anglican Covenant

The Rev. Dr. Marilyn McCord Adams, a U.S. philosophy professor and author, has become the most recent patron of the No Anglican Covenant Coalition. Her

Saint Basil Scholar Fr. Isahak Poghosyan visits Church House. From left: Fr. Zareh Zargarian, archpriest of Toronto’s Holy Trinity Armenian Church; Archbishop Fred Hiltz; Fr. Pogosyan; and Canon Judy Rois, executive director of the Anglican Foundation. Photo: Jonathan Marshall

From Armenia with love

Fr. Isahak Poghosyan, a priest in the Armenian Apostolic Church, is the Anglican Foundation’s 10th Saint Basil’s scholar. A recipient of the Order of Holy

Islamic authorities say celebrating Feb. 14 honours the defeat of Muslims by Christians in Spain. Photo: Johntx, Wikimedia

Malaysia: Valentine’s Day is idolatrous

Each year, conservatives of every faith inveigh against Valentine’s Day as a potential trigger of vice in the young. But this year, the supposedly moderate

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