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
There is a television commercial for a wireless phone company that opens with a man walking down a sidewalk testing his telephone. He is saying,
The diocese of Fredericton is doing better than expected financially. Final budget figures for 2002 show a surplus of $76,000. Several factors contributed to the
Geneva In a letter addressed to Cuban President Fidel Castro, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Konrad Raiser, called the recent
New York The mid-section of the United States encountered tornados which killed dozens of people, damaged property and, in at least two cases, destroyed churches.
On a dare from another youth delegate to CoGS, Alison Bent had her tattoo of the logo of the Anglican Church of Canada done in
Calgary Steps were taken at Council of General Synod (CoGS) to heal tensions over the refusal of the Anglican Council of Indigenous People (ACIP) to
London Anti-war Christians in Bethlehem opposed to the invasion of Iraq said recently that U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Bishop Ralph Spence of Niagara has appointed Canon Michael Patterson as director of evangelism, a new position for the diocese. Mr. Patterson, currently the rector
Canon Stephen Lane, ECUSA partner to CoGS, announced that his church is considering a $1 million US gift to the Canadian church. Calgary Canon Stephen
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has already been invited to the next assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC), which