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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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

PWRDF elects president

Janet Dench, 38, a parishioner of St. George’s Place du Canada, Montreal, has been elected president of the board of directors of the incorporated Primate’s

Where is God?

ADVENT AND Christmas this year will be different as a great cloud of unknowing covers the world. I recall the final verse of Canadian poet

1700th birthday

Moscow One of the world’s oldest churches – the Armenian Apostolic Church – and one of its youngest states – the post-Soviet republic of Armenia,

Violence erupts in Nigeria

A Nigerian soldier walks past a burned building in the regional capital of Kaduna, where riots between Christians and Muslims have claimed more than 1,000

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

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

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

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