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Fair balance sought

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 ‘disastrous’

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

Journal appeal results up 236%

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

Government also answers to the poor

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

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

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

Chocolat

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-

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

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,

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

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

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