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Reclaiming ‘language of belief’

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

Translator leaves

Bruce Jakeway of St. Paul’s church in the diocese of Edmonton is heading for the African nation of Chad to work as a translator under

Fund-raiser launched to cover legal expenses

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

Offer rejected

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

Rwandan update

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

Dracula park assailed

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 Upper Ottawa near Mattawa

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.

Volunteer hired

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.

Afghan refugees find hope in camps

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

Referendum studied

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

Budget hints at reprieve

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

Marsh takes parish

Bishop Ronald Ferris, of the diocese of Algoma, has appointed retired Bishop Edward Marsh as interim priest-in-charge of St. Brice’s church, North Bay, Ont. Bishop

Paintings on the block

London The Church of England is planning to sell a set of religious paintings that have hung in one of its grandest bishops’ palaces for

Jenks visits Myanmar

Bishop Barry Jenks, of the diocese of British Columbia, traveled to Myanmar (formerly Burma) in early June to represent Archbishop Michael Peers at the installation

Christian-Islam conflict focus of conference

Kanuga (ENI)-Keynote speakers from many parts of the world, and from two faiths, will share their theological viewpoints and international experience at a conference on

ACT critical of mixing aid, bombs

A U.S. C-17 cargo plane takes off from Germany for Afghanistan. Geneva An international network of church aid agencies criticized humanitarian airdrops linked to U.S.-led

An amazing spirit arisen from devastation

Canon Malcolm Wilson, a volunteer chaplain with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, recently returned from a week’s chaplaincy duty at the World Trade Center site

3 episcopal elections held

New bishops have been elected in the dioceses of Brandon and Caledonia, while in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, suffraga bishop Fred Hiltz was

Orthodox churches pray for terror victims

Moscow (ENS)-Marking a shift in attitude to one more sympathetic with Americans, Orthodox churches have offered special prayers for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist