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
About 2,500 worshippers, seen waiting for a concert to begin, took part in Ecumenical Kirchentag, a gathering of Germany’s Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. All
Australian governor-general Peter Hollingworth, formerly the Anglican archbishop of Brisbane, resigned May 25 amid criticism surrounding a rape claim and his handling of child sex
MelbourneThe Uniting Church Assembly, meeting in Melbourne, voted in July to permit the church’s presbyteries to accept and ordain practising homosexuals. The majority of the
The federal government has postponed the start of an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process for former Indian residential school students until the fall in order
Toronto The withdrawal of a major funder from the fifth Anglican Indigenous Sacred Circle gathering caused the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) to cancel
Nora-Jane Noone as Bernadette in Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters, a film about church-run laundries in Ireland. The Magdalene SistersDirector: Peter MullanOdeon FilmsStarring Geraldine McEwan,
Primates of the Anglican Communion, meeting in Gramado, Brazil in late May, stated that, in the absence of “theological consensus about same sex unions,” they,
The Anglican Church of Canada?s residential schools settlement fund has reached $5.5 million since an agreement with the federal government capping church liability was signed
Archbishop Michael Peers, the primate, in June told the congregation of St. John’s, Lunenburg, N.S., that very few Canadian churches are old enough to celebrate
Coffin Canon Percy David Coffin, 50, was elected on June 21 to be the fourth diocesan bishop of Western Newfoundland. Currently serving as regional dean
Aware of rapid population growth in the diocese of Toronto, Archbishop Terence Finlay has launched an in-depth study of demographic trends in the diocese. The
Trondheim, NorwayMore than a decade after the dismantling of the Iron Curtain, new divisions may be opening up between eastern and western Europe, a senior
The Anglican Fellowship of Prayer and the Interdenominational Order of St. Luke are sponsoring The Promise of Wholeness, a conference on prayer and healing, to
Archdeacon Jennifer Gosse, who was mentioned in a June story about pastoral interns serving abroad, is a graduate of Queen’s College, St. John’s, Nfld. The
Black George Alexander Black, a university professor who specialized in French literature and church music and served on several national Anglican church committees, died on
A church court in the diocese of Algoma has cleared an archdeacon of all misconduct in a case that saw the priest suspended from his
The Church of England has followed Britain’s Methodists by approving a covenant to create closer links between the two churches. The covenant agreed to in
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
Honiara, Solomon IslandsSix members of the Melanesian Brotherhood, an Anglican religious order, were murdered last May while they were held captive by rebel leader Harold