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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

Rebirth of the church in Myanmar

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

New CoGS sets church priorities

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

Visit to Mexico

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,

Camp threatened

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.

President attacked

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

Banns may be banned

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

Spence makes Roman pilgrimage

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

Aboriginal priest

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,

Offer prayers with gratitudes

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.

Five themes identified

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

VST gets new principal

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

Dylan album may jolt listeners

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.

Appointments rounded out

Orillia, Ont. Gay Richardson of the diocese of Ottawa is the newest and final Anglican appointment to the joint Anglican-Lutheran commission, it was announced at

Yoga classes banned

Warsaw Concerned about yoga’s links to eastern philosophy, churches in Slovakia have welcomed a government decision to shelve the introduction of yoga classes for children

Native network meets despite travel chaos

Cairns, Australia Like so many other gatherings in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, a meeting of the Anglican Indigenous

On-line course offered

Wycliffe College in Toronto has launched its first pre-theological course on-line It started last August, and has an estimated completion time of 20 hours.

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