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Ottawa priest to raise issue

An Ottawa priest says he will bring a resolution to diocesan synod next month asking the diocese to approve the blessing of same-sex unions. New

Presbyterian moderator

Columbus, Ohio The Presbyterian Church (USA) has elected a Palestinian-American pastor and outspoken proponent of non-violence as its new moderator. Meeting in June at its

Japan elects primate

TokyoBishop James Toru Uno of the diocese of Kita Kanto in central Japan, was elected primate of the Anglican church in Japan, succeeding Archbishop John

Blessings authorized

Topeka, Kan.Bishop William Smalley of Kansas has told clergy that he will begin authorizing limited blessing of non-married people. This policy would extend to heterosexual

Communion reacts to controversial decision

Bishop Michael Ingham of New Westminster speaks to reporters after the synod’s decision on same-sex blessings. Anglican bishops, clergy and lay people of every stripe

Summer’s new faces for the house of bishops

Bishop Robert Bennett, suffragan of Huron Bishop Andrew Atagotaaluk, currently a suffragan, or assistant bishop in the diocese of the Arctic, was elected co-adjutor bishop

New entity replaces Cariboo

Parishes that used to belong to the now-defunct diocese of Cariboo in British Columbia met this summer to develop an organizational structure for a new

Election

Mississauga, Ont. The Anglican Journal, which was incorporated earlier this year, has a newly elected board of directors to oversee its operations. The board members

U.S. donations rise

New York (ENS) – U.S. church members contributed nearly $30 billion to 65 Protestant denominations in 2000, according to a report by the National Council

Reconciliation of science, religion

RUMOURS of multiple “black holes,” an “Aquatic-ape” theory, D.N.A. analysis, genetic research, “stem cell” possibilities – all are evidence of continuing exploration in scientific disciplines

Visitor

Bishop Brian Germond, of Johannesburg, visited Canada in early May to preach at the ordination of his sister-in-law. Rev. Anne Germond was ordained on May

CoGS approves rules on worship

A lull during the three-day council meeting in Mississauga, Ont. Work eclipsed? Residential schools risks eclipsing everything the Anglican church does, a Lutheran observer told

A simple story of good versus evil

Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson. OK: so it’s a movie based on a comic book-a good-verses-evil morality tale. And it’s

Searching for the meaning of Sept. 11

New York She was supposed to have died, but had switched with a colleague, and now the flight attendant pointed at the pit. “This is

Candidacy dogged by scandal

London Hopes for an overseas entry into the race to succeed the Archbishop of Canterbury may be dead because of a financial scandal in the

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