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Ontario doubles goal for AIDS funds

The group African Voices enters St. George’s Cathedral in Kingston, Ont., to sing as a prelude to a speech by Stephen Lewis, UN special envoy

Support for Journal

The synod of the ecclesiastical province of Canada has passed a memorial to General Synod affirming the “important contribution” of the Anglican Journal and diocesan

Huron set to mark 150th anniversary

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

Youth elected as officer

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

Coffin to retire in 2007

Bishop Peter Coffin The 60-year-old bishop of the diocese Ottawa, Peter Coffin, has announced his retirement in July 2007, a move that has surprised many

Panel advises New West on dissidents

A London-based Anglican Communion panel recommended on Oct. 13 that dissenting parishes in the diocese of New Westminster be granted alternative episcopal oversight but should

Historic’ ordination

Six Cree elders from Chisasibi, a Quebec village on the James Bay coast, have been ordained deacons. The ordinations, presided over by Archbishop Caleb Lawrence

Biblical botany

Bielefeld, Germany More than 40 botanical gardens run by churches and groups throughout Germany are inviting visitors to get to know the 120 flowers, bushes

Bookstore closes

The diocese of Ottawa in August closed its Canterbury House Bookstore, which had been losing money for several years, incurring an immediate writeoff of $231,000

AIDS fundraisers

The diocese of Ontario had several AIDS-related events scheduled for September. Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, was set to

AIDS activists urge protection of women

An African delegate eyes an outfit made of condoms by Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini, whose creations were on display at the 16th International AIDS Conference.

Parish reaps rewards of garden project

Rob Kennedy, a volunteer with the Out of the Heat garden project at St. Thomas’s Church, Toronto, shows off bunches of carrots. Mr. Kennedy, who

Peace Vigil

John Sentamu, Britain’s archbishop of York, shaved his head, was anointed with oil, fasted and spent seven days in a tent inside his cathedral in

ECUSA meeting ends with no resolution

Bishops on both sides of the Episcopal Church’s divide over homosexuality met with church leaders Sept. 11-13 in New York City, but failed to agree

Pluralism a major shift in South

Geneva Latin America was once considered a Roman Catholic continent but is now characterized by a religious pluralism that can lead to hostile competitiveness, the

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