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New York Episcopal Bishop Christopher Epting of Iowa has been appointed deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations for the Episcopal Church in the United States.

New York Episcopal Bishop Christopher Epting of Iowa has been appointed deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations for the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Jerusalem Violence on the West Bank and Gaza is putting the health of Palestinians at risk and creating extra pressure for the two hospitals run

Last year’s two direct mail appeals for donations to the Anglican Journal have met with unprecedented success. Readers responded to appeals in June and September

Michael Peers A FEW WEEKS ago some works of art were stolen from a provincial legislature, and a local radio show interviewed the legislature’s curator

Anglicans in other parts of the world are bewildered by the residential schools crisis in Canada. Many also share in the effects of budget cuts

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

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

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

London A British newspaper is challenging the rule that a British monarch cannot be a Roman Catholic or marry one, saying that this infringes on

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

The news footage was horrifying: Innu children standing like trees in a forest, oblivious to the cold, holding green plastic bags filled with gasoline to

Terry Brown is the Anglican bishop of Malaita and a former mission coordinator for Asia and the Pacific with General Synod. Malaita is one of

DIRECTOR Lasse Hallstrom has followed up last year’s success of The Cider House Rules with an adaptation of Joanne Harris’s novel Chocolat. With an all-

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

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,

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

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

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

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

Canadian Anglican priest Robert Assaly (right) speaks to an Israeli soldier A CANADIAN Anglican priest has returned from a fact-finding visit to the Middle East