Middle East peace
Anglican Journal
February 1, 2004
Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold of the Episcopal Church in the United States joined 32 other religious leaders in announcing a new effort to mobilize
Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold of the Episcopal Church in the United States joined 32 other religious leaders in announcing a new effort to mobilize
A Hungarian Baptist Aid medical team in Bam, Iran, works under palm trees for shade during the day and by reflector light at night. Responding
Cold Mountain is a small story set against a huge backdrop of events and the nurturing sweep of landscape and nature. At the outset of
The Peers family in a 2001 photo (from left): Dorothy; Richard (with son William atop), his wife Jeanette Revet (with daughter Emma); Michael; Valerie; Nga
Dorothy Peers Our primate’s recent retirement has generated many tributes to his years of gifted and dedicated ministry to our national church, our worldwide Anglican
Light Parishes in the former British Columbia diocese of Cariboo will once again have a bishop. Now called the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior
Three of the six Anglican parishes in Niagara Falls, Ont. are facing closure. With dwindling attendance, St. Stephen’s church voted to disestablish last November and
September’s meeting in Yellowknife of the diocese of the Arctic’s executive committee saw this resolution passed: “That this executive affirm the stand taken by the
Johannesburg South African church leaders have condemned their government’s silence on atrocities committed by Zimbabwe ‘s rulers against political opponents, equating the situation in their
The Human Right to Peaceby Douglas RocheNovalis 271 pages, $24.95 At the end of this month it will be Lent again and, as always, I
Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) who dissented from decisions by last summer’s General Convention endorsing the consecration of a gay
This church has AIDS. Elsewhere in this first issue of 2004, the Anglican Journal has coverage of how churches and others marked World AIDS Day,
Dr. Stephen Hart, a New Brunswick Anglican, has asked his church to be actively involved in the HIV/AIDS relief and education campaign of the Primates
I once read a long moan about the appalling thoughtlessness and rudeness of modern youth that sounded like a Victorian grandparent of mine on a
The majority of Canadians no longer take part in regular church services and other traditional forms of worship but they continue to believe in God
Grace Tucker, who worked as an Anglican church missionary to the Japanese community in Canada, died in Richmond, B.C. on Dec. 4 at the age
Beit Jala, West Bank A new centre specifically built for dialogue between the world’s three monotheistic faiths ? Christianity, Judaism and Islam ? has opened
Jim Bear of the Brokenhead Ojibwa traveled recently to Scotland and presented the Royal Museum of Scotland with a cross carved out of wood cut
A South African organization called HOPE Africa has solicited contributions from Canadian Anglican parishes, prompting a word of caution from Ellie Johnson, director of the
Dr. Adolfo Roitman, curator, examines the War Scroll, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Museum of Civilization in Hull, Que. Amateur historians