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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.

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

Attacks swell churches

Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Paul Celucci, U.S. ambassador to Canada, bow their heads at a Parliament Hill service in memory

Service held for victim

The September terrorist attacks in the United States hit at least one member of Canada’s Anglican community. David Michael Barkway, 34, son of Rev. Peter

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

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

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

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

Scent-free parishes in vogue

Chris Ambidge, shown standing, assisting Canon Art Lawson at General Synod, has occasionally fled services where incense is used. FOR people whose throats virtually close

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,

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