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ECUSA condemns drilling in Arctic

New York The Episcopal Church has joined with other faith groups in a statement condemning as morally wrong an amendment to a defense authorization bill

Anglican volunteer chaplains receive awards

Three Anglican priests, one of whom comforted families and recovery workers after the 1998 Swissair Flight 111 disaster at Peggy’s Cove, N.S., were recognized recently

Bishop involved in founding PWRDF

Bishop Leonard Hatfield Bishop Leonard Fraser Hatfield Bishop Leonard Fraser Hatfield, former bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and author of a book

Edmonton to screen staff, volunteers

The diocese of Edmonton has a new staff and volunteer screening policy, along with guidelines and procedures. A top priority for the policy is personnel

Former priest jailed

Former Anglican priest Charles David Griggs was sentenced on Oct. 1 at the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, Winnipeg, to four years in prison on

New Lutheran bishop installed in office

Rev. Raymond L. Schultz was installed as National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) on Sunday, Sept. 16 at Lutheran Church of

Church leaders respond to attack

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States of Sept. 11, many church leaders in the United States and from around the

Clergy increasingly risk violence in U.K.

London More than half of female parish priests are afraid of personal violence as they carry out their duties, a survey of five Anglican dioceses

Missionaries leave

London (ACNS)-The London-based Church Mission Society said its missionaries left Pakistan and returned to their homes in Australia following the Sept. 11 attacks on the

Ecumenical chapel opens

Brussels A Jesuit-owned chapel, constructed in 1908 and later abandoned, has been restored and re-opened as an ecumenical “Chapel for Europe” in Brussels in order

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

Memorial gift

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

Pro-Palestinian to lead church

Jerusalem Against the wishes of Israel, the Greek Orthodox Church has come under the leadership of a pro-Palestinian patriarch, Irineos I, a 62-year-old bishop. With

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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