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Vancouver Seven parishes have withdrawn financial support from the diocese of New Westminster in the aftermath of its decision this summer to allow the blessing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

Primates invited to New West gathering

VancouverThe guest list is under wraps, but later this month Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings in New Westminster are preparing to welcome like-minded bishops and

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

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

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

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

Congregations unite

The four Anglican congregations in Moose Jaw, Sask. have voted to amalgamate. Bishop Duncan Wallace, of the diocese of Qu’Appelle, approved the move and a

Protest

Leonard James of the Cowichan tribes, Coast Salish Nation, B.C. and Gloria Cope, a member of Aboriginal Neighbours, burn a poster representing the B.C. government’s

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