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School becomes symbol of hope

Elder Henry Ogemah, a former student at Pelican Falls Residential School in Sioux Lookout, Ont., cut the ribbon last fall opening a new high school

A quick response to two calamities

Gilda Funes and her husband Jose Cruz embrace as six of their immediate family members, three from her side and three from his, are lowered

Dictator shaken

Barranquilla Bishop Armando Roman Guerra, of the Anglican Church of Guatemala, said that an attempt to bring former Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt to trial in

Rules may be relaxed

London The Church of England could permit divorcees to remarry in church as early as next year after a consultation with church representatives from eight

Bishop resigns to pursue parish ministry

Bishop of Caledonia, John Hannen Bishop John Hannen has resigned as Bishop of Caledonia to pursue parish ministry at St. Barnabas in Victoria and work

New leadership

London Canon Glyn Jones, 65, has retired as secretary general of The Mission to Seafarers after 11 years in the position. Mission to Seafarers maintains

Two bishops killed in road accident

Bishop Vinod Peter New Delhi Bishop Vinod Peter, a leading Indian clergyman and president of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), died in

Canada, U.K. act on foreign debt

Toronto The international Jubilee campaign to have governments cancel debts by the world’s poorest countries made sudden and unexpected headway late last year. In December,

Pakistan church ordains two women deacons

New Delhi The Church of Pakistan has ordained two women deacons, despite civil court action by another church which believes that the Bible bans women

Salvation Army in legal limbo

Moscow The Salvation Army in Moscow began the year in what the head of the Christian group’s Russian operations, Kenneth Baillie, has called a “legal

Life after the sky has fallen in

Rev. Boyd greets a parishioner after church Toronto REV. MICHAEL Boyd was sitting at his dining room table on a bright, sunny September day in

Scribes’ shrine set up

London Canon David Meara, of St. Bride’s Church in London is creating an Internet shrine to journalists killed, maimed, or imprisoned throughout Europe. The church,

Honour and love

Michael Peers AT THE moment of writing I am living in the afterglow of one of the too infrequent joys of our mobile society –

Churches unite to promote justice issues

Geneva An international alliance of church groups has been formed to promote justice and peace issues. The alliance, launched in Geneva, was inspired by the

Books in Brief

Saint Saul A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus Donald Harman Akenson 346 pages, hardcover, $32.95 McGill – Queen’s University Press 0773520 9025 The author

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