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Bishops to volunteer for AIDS tests

Anglican bishops in southern Africa have agreed to undergo voluntary HIV/AIDS testing and to encourage clergy and lay leaders of their diocese to be tested

Churches join forces to build new centre

Two Anglican parishes in Burnaby, B.C., are considering joining with two Lutheran and two United churches to build a large Christian centre which would serve

Money changers to be made welcome

The Church of England is considering installing cash machines in thousands of rural churches. Senior officials want to exploit the vacuum left by the closure

The fine art of flippancy

100 years ago: November 1900 Canadian Churchman reported that France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries went through a stage of profound irreverence. Courtiers, ecclesiastics,

A rise to superstardom in media-obsessed times

Thomas Gibson stars with Jessica Pare in Denys Arcand’s Stardom. WHEN DENYS Arcand introduced his film Stardom to the audience at the Vancouver International Film

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Lawyer investigated

Regina lawyer Tony Merchant has been investigated by the provincial law society over two letters he wrote soliciting residential school litigants. The Merchant Law Firm

Beardy backs Mi’kmaq fishers

Bishop Gordon Beardy of Keewatin visited Burnt Church, N.B., in late September to lend his support to Mi’kmaq who were engaged in a bitter dispute

Voices of the people

All 17 parishes in the Diocese of Cariboo were asked to send messages to what was likely the last diocesan synod. Here is what some

Churches condemn Israeli violence

Michael Sellors, Anglican Dean of St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem Jerusalem Church leaders in the Holy Land have condemned “provocative actions” by Israeli politicians and

The ethos that lies behind the ethics

AS I LOOK over my columns for the Journal I realize that I have fallen into a pattern that I have often criticized. Almost every

Diocese sued

A Quebec businessman has filed suit against the Diocese of Quebec, Bishop Bruce Stavert, the Church Society in the diocese, accounting firm Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, and others,

Secretaries meet

General secretaries – the chief operating officers – from 31 of the 38 provinces in the Anglican Communion met in Toronto last August. A full

Power struggle seen in Vatican statement

A statement from the Vatican suggesting Anglican and other Christian churches are not “churches in the proper sense,” and certainly not sister churches of the

Calendar

Oct. 28, 2000, St. John’s Church, York Mills, Toronto. Fidelity sponsors a presentation by Rev. Eric Beresford, consultant on ethics for General Synod, who will

Cariboo may lose control over future

It is looking less likely that the Diocese of Cariboo will vote to dissolve at its October synod meeting, because it won’t be permitted voluntarily

World peace summit criticized as vague

New York -Prominent ecumenists have declared that the Millennium World Peace Summit of about 1,000 religious leaders, held in New York, may well have a

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