Vincent Lam, an active Anglican from Toronto, has won the prestigious 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize for excellence in English-language Canadian fiction. Mr. Lam, a parishioner
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus, who created Grameen Bank, which pioneered small loans to enable the poor to set up businesses, was awarded the 2006 Nobel
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori greets well-wishers after her investiture Nov. 4 as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. She is the first woman to head
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, after a church service in Beijing. He visited China for the first time last fall. BeijingThe Archbishop of Canterbury,
Bishop Ralph Spence, of the diocese of Niagara, on Oct. 27 was one of three people honoured for their contributions to the field of heraldry
FaithLife Financial has awarded about $80,000 in scholarships to 46 young students across Canada through a program called Horizons; 36 of the recipients are enrolled
Wangusa The Anglican Journal published an incorrect photo to accompany a story about the appointment of Hellen Grace Wangusa as the next Anglican United Nations
An “anonymous donor of the North” has pledged $50,000 to the diocese of Arctic’s $5 million fundraising campaign to rebuild St. Jude’s Cathedral, Iqaluit’s historic
It was a hot, dusty day, like every other day. This is Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, a desolate place, and the heat hits like an
The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario has elected a youth delegate to serve as prolocutor, a first for the province and some say, possibly a first
A steering committee “to preserve and re-imagine” Quebec Lodge, the diocese of Quebec’s camp whose sale was put on hold after an outpouring of support
A Christmas CD produced by the music team at Calgary’s Holy Trinity church has been nominated for two Covenant Music Awards: best seasonal album of
November 30 marks the 30th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Anglican Church of Canada, and a number of events
Submitted Rev. Major Robert A. Lauder, a military chaplain in Afghanistan, visits an orphanage. The visit with the 21 girls, he writes, “reminds me of
Aid workers face challenges in feeding the hungry in Food Force, a video game aimed at teaching children about world hunger. The United Nations World
On Oct. 28, 2007, exactly 150 years to the day that Benjamin Cronyn was consecrated as the first synodically-elected bishop in the Anglican world, Anglicans
All that remains now to seal the future of the Anglican Book Centre, the Toronto-based bookstore of the Anglican Church of Canada, is just one
The diocese of Fredericton is participating in a pilot project of the National Historic Places Initiative, which will compile data and write “Statements of Significance”
Rev. Mary Mills, pictured with grandchildren David and Wanda Wright, was one of the first women ordained in the Canadian church in 1976. Rev. Mary
Bishop Alberto Ramento of Tarlac in the Philippines, former Prime Bishop of the Philippine Independent Church, or Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), was found stabbed to
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