Geneva Christian-Muslim dialogue should focus on mutual interpretation of each other’s religion, discussion of the history of violence, the notion of jihad and “just war”
Huron has become the first diocese to launch a fund-raising campaign specifically aimed at meeting legal costs arising from native residential schools lawsuits. Meeting in
Jerusalem The Israeli government is refusing to recognize the authority of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Holy Land, more than three months after his
New York President Mohammad Khatami of the Islamic Republic of Iran told a panel of U.S. interfaith religious leaders meeting here that they must wrest
The diocese of Rupert’s Land turned down an offer for Anglican Island and terminated its contract with its present real estate broker. The asking price
This painting by Group of Seven member Franklin Carmichael is part of a McMichael Gallery exhibit that highlights the spiritual side of the artist’s work.
St. George’s Anglican church in the diocese of Brandon provided an update on the progress of a Rwandan refugee family that the parish helped settle
Bucharest (ENI) – Church leaders in Romania have condemned government plans for a 120-hectare Dracula Park to encourage tourist interest in Transylvania’s legendary vampire. “The
The diocese of Niagara has hired a part-time consultant in screening and resource management to help parishes design and implement new volunteer policies and practices.
Shamshatoo Refugee Camp, Pakistan Everywhere you look in this refugee community, life is a brown monochrome. The simple brown mud walls and mud houses rise
The diocese of New Westminster’s Justice and Peace Unit wants a new task force that will determine its stand if the government of British Columbia
Orillia, Ont. The Anglican Church of Canada will remain solvent at least until the end of 2002. A budget presented to the Council of General
Orillia, Ont. At its inaugural meeting last fall, the Council of General Synod (CoGS) elected last summer, wrestled with how to continue guiding the church
Six representatives of St. Andrew’s parish, Kelowna, B.C., in the diocese of Kootenay, traveled last summer to Monterrey, Mexico to visit its new sister parish,
Moscow In a bizarre mix of farce and tragedy, a Russian newspaper report on the arrest of a supposed Orthodox priest in Chechnya on suspicion
Johannesburg South Africa’s Anglican archbishop has attacked the country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, for questioning the scientific premise that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) leads to
THE FOREIGN missionaries have been gone for 35 years, expelled from Burma (Myanmar) in 1966 as part of a nationalistic sweep by the military government
Bishop Ralph Spence of Niagara made an ecumenical pilgrimage to the Vatican in November, accompanied by Bishop Michael Pryse of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
For the first time in its history, the diocese of Toronto will hire an aboriginal priest. Archdeacon Colin Johnson, executive assistant to Archbishop Terence Finlay,
Camp Columbia in the diocese of British Columbia is showing a substantial loss because of weaker than anticipated attendance. Deficits are threatening the camp’s future.