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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

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

Ottawa ACW sends bales packing

Evelyn Presley, co-ordinator of Ottawa’s diocesan ACW, helps seal one of 115 bales for churches in the North; the bales were valued at $69,000. Following

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

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

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

Churches lead Sri Lanka march

Bishop Duleep de Chickera urged the warring Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers to return to the negotiating table. New DelhiChurch leaders in Sri Lanka

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

Canadians to update ECUSA on schools

TorontoA residential schools update will be sent to the Episcopal Church of the United States as its executive council members prepare to vote this fall

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

Toronto blessing passes quietly

Toronto A Toronto parish has performed what may be the first public blessing of a same-sex marriage in Canada’s largest diocese. Alison Kemper and Joyce

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

Visa denials reveal drop in hospitality

I visited Turku, Finland, in 2000 for a meeting of the council of the Lutheran World Federation. A great moment of that meeting occurred when

Irish churches growing

The Anglican and Presbyterian churches in the Republic of Ireland have recorded their first increases in support since at least 1881, according to a government