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
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 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
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
ON TUESDAY morning, Sept. 11, I was rereading Longing for God, Anglicans Talk About Revelation, Nature, Culture, and Authority which is the first book of
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
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
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
Three Anglicans have been named to an eight-member joint commission that will oversee a new relationship between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical
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
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
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,
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
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
IN the 20th century Canada came into its own as a nation. In the 19th century it was, for many observers, an intimidating mass of
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
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,
SOME months ago at a family get-together an old friend asked me “Is it true what I hear about the death of the Anglican Church?”
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
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.