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
George HarrisonAll Things Must PassGN Records / EMI There are many artists who toss spiritual points of reference into their work. Rarer is the artist
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
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
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
IT IS A paradox of a diocese in some ways – generous but poor, fearful but optimistic, theologically conservative but tolerant. Saskatchewan may be among
Michael Peers AT THE moment of writing I am living in the afterglow of one of the too infrequent joys of our mobile society –
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,
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