Dr. Wendy L. Fletcher-Marsh has been appointed dean of the Vancouver School of Theology, effective July 1, 2000. Dr. Fletcher-Marsh is currently an associate professor
A former lay worker at a Toronto-area church has been charged with violating his bail conditions stemming from sexual assault charges laid last year. Richard
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.
A Nova Scotia priest acquitted of sexually assaulting a girl in his parish says he doesn’t feel victimized by the system. “The Crown opted to
(ACNS)?The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Canon John L Peterson, is planning to spend Christmas and New Year’s in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He will
LondonA London-based Muslim group has sentenced to death the author of a play depicting a gay Jesus. The group, Al-Muhajiroun, which describes itself as the
Calgary’s seventh bishop will bring a strong background in mediation, counselling and ecumenical work to the office. Archdeacon Barry Hollowell, rector of St. George’s Anglican
THERE IS NO doubt, that in our modern and postmodern global village, we daily encounter people from various and varied faith traditions. There are two
The NATO bombing campaign destroyed bridges across the Danube. A Canadian priest says a professional Serb photographer took pictures such as these but the Western
World-scale talks between Anglicans and Baptists have been a long time in coming ? more than 400 years by some leadership estimates from both communions.