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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

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

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.

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.

Sudan church thrives in midst of civil war

Archbishop Joseph Marona, of the Episcopalian church in Sudan. Archbishop of Sudan Joseph Marona says the civil war in his homeland has claimed more than

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

Video released on David Somerville

At the diocese of New Westminster’s most recent synod, last June, Bishop Michael Ingham noted that the last few bishops in the diocese had been

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