Former South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has commended Kenya’s attempt to confront its “painful” past through a truth commission, following the ousting of a
Dear editor, I write with respect to the tragic issues of abuse at the Indian residential schools (IRS) which operated for much of the last
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
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
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
The Songs of the Mothersby Joe Morris DossChurch Pub. Inc., NY317 pp, 46.25 Anglicans have always loved tranquillity and too often that has meant acquiescence
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
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 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
Steve Schuhpresident of Integrity Vancouver Organizers of an international conference scheduled for later this month hope not only to put homosexuality issues on the radar
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
Friday I am writing this on a flight from Havana, Cuba, to Seattle, U.S.A. Of course, I jest. There is no flight from anywhere in
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
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
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
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.
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
Dear editor, Normally I avoid teasing my blood pressure by reading the letters to the editor in the Journal, but one managed to catch my
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
More than two generations after the adoption of the 728-page 1959 Canadian Book of Common Prayer (BCP), almost a full generation after the 1985 introduction