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Campaign honours missing native women

They are Canada ‘s lingering question mark. In the last 20 years in Canada, more than 500 aboriginal women have disappeared. This month, the Native

Dioceses debate blessings issue

The diocese of Toronto will wait nearly a year before deciding on whether to offer a “local option” to parishes wishing to offer same-sex blessings

Anglican retailer expands its line

Church Publishing Inc., the official publisher of the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA), has appointed the Toronto-based Anglican Book Centre, the Anglican Church

Personal journeys in powerful songs

Emmylou Harris: Stumble Into Grace The evolution of Emmylou Harris is really remarkable. She was already a famed star in a 30-year career by virtue

Vicious attack’

Church leaders in India have blamed a campaign “targeting Christians” for the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in elections for legislators last month

Churches break talks with ECUSA

Bishop Gene Robinson was consecrated Nov. 2. New York The consecration of Gene Robinson as the first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop

Churches condemn anti-Semitism

Concerned by an “alarming increase of anti-Semitism in Canada,” leaders of nine Christian churches in Canada ? including the Anglican Church of Canada ? have

Diocese elects Moxley as suffragan

Diocesan bishop Fred Hiltz and Susan Moxley embrace at the news of her election as suffragan bishop of Nova Scotia and P.E.I. The diocese of

Theology school names primate to ecumenical post

The Toronto School of Theology (TST) has appointed Archbishop Michael Peers, outgoing primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, as its first Ecumenist-in-Residence. Archbishop Peers,

How did your church mark World AIDS Day?

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,

Toonies for HIV/AIDS

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

Grace Tucker

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

Centre ‘a model’ for faiths

Beit Jala, West Bank A new centre specifically built for dialogue between the world’s three monotheistic faiths ? Christianity, Judaism and Islam ? has opened

Scots in Canada

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

Appeal did not have local blessing

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

Conservatives plot strategy

TorontoConservative bishops from the United States and Canada met here shortly before the Canadian house of bishops’ fall meeting to discuss changing views on sexuality

Saskatoon elects Andrews

Rev. Rodney Osborne Andrews, 63, was elected bishop of the diocese of Saskatoon on Nov. 15, succeeding Arch-bishop Thomas Morgan, 62, who retires at the

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