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.
London A review of Church of England marriage procedures, published in November, recommended scrapping the reading of banns and giving couples a wider choice of
RECENTLY at a liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox tradition, I heard a story of a kind we do not often hear in the western church.
Orillia, Ont. The Council of General Synod identified five new pieces of work for special attention at its recent meeting here. One of them, “intentional
Dr. Ken MacQueen, a United Church minister and former principal of Huntingdon University College in Sudbury, Ont., is the new principal of the Vancouver School
IN A 40-year career as a recording artist, Bob Dylan changed contemporary music forever. His landmark works of the 1960s alone make him a legend.