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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

Archives plan exhibit

A November meeting of the Friends of the Archives of the Diocese of Ottawa was told by national archivist Ian Wilson that Canada’s National Archives

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

Two faiths share concern

Marrakesh, Morocco World Council of Churches delegates to the seventh United Nations climate conference here last fall explored Christian and Muslim perspectives on the issue

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

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

Israel refusing to accept Irineos

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

Religious renewal can be traumatic

SAVED. Converted. Born Again. Renewed. Spirit-baptism. These are familiar words to Anglicans who have heard them time and again in the services of holy baptism.

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

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.

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

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,

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

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

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,

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

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.

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