Don’t blame lawyers Dear editor, Your article, Collection Plate Cash Won’t Go To Litigation Bills (December Journal) reports some bishops wanted to take steps to
Many students at a Haitian university started by a former Canadian Volunteer in Mission can’t pay their tuition past the first year. Rev. Benoit Cherisol,
Prior to Nelson Mandela’s address to the Parliament, Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town talks to the Chief Rabbi C. K. Harris of the
Camille Venier of Kaslo, B.C., carries the Canadian flag at the peace pole ceremony on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner under the
(ACNS) – The International Commission of the Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue continued its series of meetings in Salisbury, England in October. The Commission is composed of
Cape Town The world’s religions must make a greater effort to promote basic human values, the Dalai Lama said during the Parliament of the World’s
Harare, Zimbabwe Black priests in the Anglican church in Zimbabwe say they are not allowed to baptize, marry or bury white parishioners. At least four
Charles Bull has been reinstated as rector of the parishes of Lockeport-Barrington, effective Dec. 13, 1999. Mr. Bull spent most of 1999 on paid leave,
If church bureaucrats narrowly avoided stepping into a mess, federal civil servants haven’t. After losing ? badly ? a tax case involving nearly 50 ministers
Native people had their languages and culture taken from them, along with ways of resolving disputes they had developed over millenia, which had nothing to
After losing 46 of 49 cases this year in the Tax Court of Canada regarding clergy housing tax deductions, the federal government is proposing new
The small, predominantly Anglican community of Moose Factory, Ont., continues to mourn the loss of eight members in a boating accident, the worst mass tragedy
A group of Carmelite monks who left Nova Scotia temporar-ily because of logging noise are not returning. The logging rights to land surrounding the monks?
STEPHEN LEACOCK once wrote a macabre story about a futuristic Christmas dinner, a warning against the fast-food revolution that he foresaw.Before frozen food and microwaves
The arrest of three journalists covering an anti-abortion protest in Toronto has prompted accusations of police bias and infringement on freedom of the press. The
East London, South AfricaHundreds of spiritual and religious leaders from around the world are expected in South Africa in December to take part in a
A comprehensive motion to tackle violence against women was passed unanimously by the Provincial Synod of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. The
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia has refused to give his assent to a vote to allow trained lay people to preside at Holy Communion.