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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

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

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

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

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

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

Dean appointed

Bishop Anthony Burton has announced the appointment of Rev. Michael Hawkins as dean of the diocese of Saskatchewan and rector of St. Alban’s Cathedral, Prince

15 slain in Pakistani church

Bahawalpur, Pakistan An emotional funeral was held in St. Dominic’s church here on Oct. 29 for 15 members of the Anglican Church of Pakistan massacred

Volunteers program in trouble

Returned Volunteer in Mission Linda Campbell shown with students of St. Augustine English Medium Primary Schools in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, where she served as

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

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

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.

Christmas album has lots of treats

ARTISTS AND managers recognize a Christmas album as a great marketing tool. It only makes sense. Consumers purchase albums during the Christmas season at a

Hear with the ears of shepherds

AS WE MOVE towards Christmas this year, what good news, what good counsel is out there? We are certainly exhorted to maintain the North American

Canon Tom Robinson

Canon Tom Robinson, 72, a key figure in the Anglican Church of Canada’s evangelical movement, died of cancer in October in Saint John, N.B. Mr.

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