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Memorial gift

Rev. Eliza Linley has created a banner for the chapel of New York’s Episcopal Church Center in memory of Sept. 11.

Clergy crunch in Ottawa

A Port Sydney, Ont., teenager has been charged with setting a fire in July that destroyed Christ Church, the oldest The diocese of Ottawa is

Anglicans a minority

London he Telegraph says that for the first time in the history of the Church of England, baptized Anglicans are a minority in the country.

Cook honoured

Gladys Cook, a survivor of sexual abuse in a residential school, recently was honoured when the school building at the Agassiz Youth Centre in Portage

Coming to terms with evil

The following is an edited version of a letter from Archbishop Michael Peers, the Primate, to Canadian Anglicans in the aftermath of the September terrorist

Toronto gets kit to promote safety

The diocese of Toronto is sending out a health and safety kit to all church wardens to help prevent accidents in churches and parish halls.

Two bishops cleared

New York Two bishops of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Jane Holmes Dixon of Washington and Clifton Daniel III of East

An early ecumenist

Al Miller Pastor Al Miller, co-chair of the original joint Anglican-Lutheran working group that drafted the Waterloo Declaration, has died at 69. Mr. Miller, a

Canon amended

Marriage between people who have previously lived in the same household, or who still do live in the same household and where one has been

Tanzanian first

Bishop Mdimi Mhogolo of the diocese of Central Tanganyika, Tanzania, is flanked by the first five women ever ordained deacons in the country. The ordinations,

Women in India gain under new divorce law

New Delhi An amendment to the Indian Divorce Act approved by the lower house of India’s Parliament in August gives Christian women divorce rights equal

A moment’s emotionalism proves surprising

Michael Peers LAST month I wrote about one somewhat-anticipated joy of General Synod 2001. That surprise was followed by another joy, this time utterly unanticipated.

AIDS gathering ends churches’ silence

Father Gigeon Byamugisha of Uganda moved conference delegates to tears with descriptions of life as a priest infected with AIDS. Boksburg, South Africa A conference

Retired U.S. bishop facing charges

New York Retired bishop of New York Richard Grein has been charged with violating canons of the Episcopal Church and the diocese in connection with

Calendar

PWRDF general meeting The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund is holding its first annual general meeting from Nov. 1 to 4 at The Briars

Elder accepted apology

Vi Smith (centre) accepted Michael Peers’ apology. Vi Smith, a distinguished native elder with the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples and member of the Gitksan

Response to terror

The devastating terrorist attacks in the United States Sept. 11 prompted messages from religious leaders around the world. Archbishop Michael Peers, the Canadian Anglican Primate,

Palestinian Christians get support

Jerusalem The World Council of Churches has taken steps in support of Palestinian Christian families, which are emigrating from the Holy Land at the rate

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