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WCC invites president

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

We can no longer buffer ourselves

Dear editor, While out walking our dog this week I spoke with another individual who was walking their dog. Somehow my role as a chaplain

Praying for victory brings mixed blessing

The Roman poet Horace used these words in a famous phrase, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”, which translates as “Sweet and honourable it

Priest hopes work in Guyana continues

Rev. Philip and Adriana Rowswell This July, when Rev. Philip Rowswell and his wife Adriana close the gate of their compound in Georgetown, Guyana, and

Church leaders talk full communion

Michael McAteer (centre) moderated a dialogue between Raymond Schultz, national Lutheran bishop, and Anglican primate Archbishop Michael Peers. The Lutheran World Federation Assembly, which meets

St. Ivan the Terrible

MoscowA campaign by an ultra-right-wing group to canonize Czar Ivan the Terrible and the so-called “mad monk,” Gregory Rasputin, is threatening to split the Russian

Committee examines Anglican identity

The national church’s faith, worship and ministry committee wants to know if there is such a thing as common worship or prayer across the Anglican

Sri Lankan bishop tries to model peace

Bishop Kumara Llangasinghe Bishop Kumara Llangasinghe, of the diocese of Kurunagala in Sri Lanka, is one of a newly emerging breed of Anglican bishop/statesmen: a

Aid, prayers, vigils in wake of war

Churches around the world held prayer vigils, clergy and lay people marched in anti-war demonstrations and the Canadian Anglican primate, Archbishop Michael Peers, asked for

Marion Cooper Krafft

Marion Cooper Krafft, 88, a deaconess and life member of the Women’s Auxiliary in Saskatchewan, died on March 5 in Mississauga, Ont. She attended Anglican

More Scottish tunes

London The Church of Scotland is planning to cull more than a third of its hymn book, to make room for more Scottish words and

Pentecostal centre

AmsterdamA unique centre has opened in the Netherlands to study Pentecostalism, one of the world’s fastest growing Christian movements – and one which some members

‘Something is very wrong here’

Bishop Terry Brown What do I do (what do you do?) when I realize (when you realize) that a relationship, a touching, an intimacy –

New West situation simmers

Seven out of eight dissident parishes in New Westminster have voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting an offer from Bishop Terrence Buckle of the Yukon

Women’s activism alive at UN

The Commission on the Status of Women, part of the United Nations Social and Economic Council met in New York recently. The Anglican Consultative Council,

Iraqi anger

An Iraqi woman expresses her anger at the U.S. bombing of a residential area to Dave Havard, a deacon from the diocese of New Westminster.

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