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Lutheran Life grant

Waterloo, Ont. Lutheran Life Insurance Society of Canada has made a $5,000 grant to assist in the restoration of St. John?s Anglican Church, Lunenburg, N.S.

New editor named

Canon John Caird has retired after 24 years as editor of the Rupert?s Land News. Mr. Caird began writing for the paper in 1978, became

Former mission coordinator elected bishop

Bishop-elect David Hamid LondonA former mission coordinator with the Anglican Church of Canada’s Partnership department has been appointed suffragan or assistant bishop of the diocese

Lutherans elect woman

Swift Current, Sask.The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) elected its first woman bishop at its Saskatchewan synod in July. Rev. Cynthia G. Halmarson, 47,

Erb honored

Canon John Erb, director of the Anglican Foundation, was among a group honoured last May by the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto as

Same-sex decision proves costly

Vancouver Seven parishes have withdrawn financial support from the diocese of New Westminster in the aftermath of its decision this summer to allow the blessing

Journal appeal

Your September newspaper includes material on this year’s Anglican Journal financial appeal. The appeal’s success in 2001 means that the newspaper you are holding contains

Hutchison e-elected metropolitan of Canada

Andrew Hutchison succeeds Arthur Peters as metropolitan. Bishop Andrew Hutchison of Montreal has been elected metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Canada in what is

Journal wins nine press awards

Ottawa The Anglican Journal took nine prizes at the annual convention of Canadian Church Press here on May 9, including the top award for treatment

Peace plan greeted by scepticism

New Delhi Christian activists say they are sceptical about promises by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to restore peace to the troubled western state

Funding plan heralds changes

Canon Philip Poole of Trinity Aurora dons a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater to introduce the Marigold Report to Council of General Synod. Mississauga, Ont. A

Building trust with Ottawa

Mississauga Council of General Synod discussed residential schools behind closed doors. Afterwards, a written report was issued which said that bilateral negotiations between the federal

Oblates seek protection

A 157-year-old Roman Catholic order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate of Manitoba, sought bankruptcy protection under the federal Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act in April due

Sharing pastor

IN COMMUNION Rev. Ray Turner, a long-time Anglican priest in the diocese of Kootenay, was inducted March 3 as half-time pastor of St. John?s Lutheran

Law on cannabis

London (ENI)-A senior Church of England bishop, John Oliver, has supported a growing movement in Britain to relax the law against using cannabis. Bishop Oliver

Peers, Israeli envoy seek new dialogue

Archbishop Michael Peers’ recent statement on Middle East conflict not only caused a furor among readers of church media, but also sparked a meeting between

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