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Facing chronic illnesses with hope

Grace Casselman’s Knocked Off My Knees is a good source of education for someone diagnosed with lupus but, more importantly, it is a personal story

Order breaks new ground

The Sisters of St. John the Divine, an Anglican order of nuns, broke ground Sept. 18 on the location of a new mother house in

Churches meet despite safety concerns

Bulawayo, ZimbabweUndeterred by reports of political violence, more than 6,500 members of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches from around the world assembled in mid-August

Churches broach election

Bishops in the province of Ontario are wading into secular politics and have issued a pamphlet to help Anglicans ask questions of their local candidates

His blue heaven

A priest in the diocese of Edmonton has agreed to let the church’s Sunday school children dye his hair blue if they can match his

Fewer in New West pews

Average church attendance in the diocese of New Westminster is down again for the second time in as many years. The diocese reports that 8,167

Quebec crab fishers face grim future

Registered nurse Mary Spingle prepares for an evening service at St. Peter’s church in Old Fort Bay Blanc-Sablon, Que.Rev. Douglas Painter is cordial but grim.

Church Army moves

The Church Army in Canada has moved its national office to Saint John from Toronto. The move, which became official on Sept. 1, reunites the

WCC finances looking brighter

General Secretary Sam Kobia The World Council of Churches (WCC) is in a healthier financial position and is on the road to overcoming the difficulties

B.C. picks up the pieces after fires

Mover Paul Griffith attaches the pipes to the organ at St. Andrew’s church in Kelowna, B.C., 11 days after it was removed due to the

WCC campaign on violence targets U.S.

GenevaThe United States is to be the focus of an ecumenical church campaign against violence, the main governing body of the World Council of Churches

Curriculum ‘meets different needs’

Trinity’s Len Bulmer guides Sunday school children through a lesson. Aurora, Ont.Seasons of the Spirit, adopted by the Anglican Church of Canada as its recommended

Reconciliation Sunday

The diocese of Ottawa will mark Nov. 23 as Settlement and Reconciliation Sunday. The announcement came from the diocesan Residential Schools Settlement Commission, which is

Readers get only part of the story

Next month, in these pages, we would like to tell readers about the Oct. 7-10 meeting between the Anglican Council of Aboriginal Peoples (ACIP) and

Anglicans hit the stage

Several Anglicans in the Guelph, Ont., area were involved recently in the production of The Laramie Project, a play about homophobia. The production revolves around

Primates may push for separate province

Conservative primates, or national leaders, of the worldwide Anglican Communion are preparing to pressure the Archbishop of Canterbury this month to create a new province

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