Churches and communities around the world will gather Jan. 18 to 25 for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity; the event, which some churches
JerusalemThe Greek Orthodox church in the Holy Land enthroned a new patriarch to replace Irineos, who was deposed by his bishops after a scandal about
The East Algoma division of the Ontario Provincial Police, based in Elliot Lake, Ont., on Oct. 24 charged a former Anglican priest, Kenneth Graham Gibbs,
A diocese of Ottawa task force set up three years ago to study the implications of the blessing of same-sex unions did not recommend any
With this issue of the Anglican Journal, we begin a new year of publishing, but it is oddly difficult to say farewell to 2005. It
Members of the Anglican Communion Legal Advisers’ Network met recently in Toronto to review a draft document prepared in 2002, which outlined a “statement of
LondonQueen Elizabeth II extolled the unique role of the Christian church in the search for meaning in the modern world when she opened the Church
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Archbishop Robin Eames, primate of All Ireland, have called the worldwide Mother’s Union (MU) the “fifth instrument of
The dioceses of Western Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Fredericton, Ottawa, Edmonton and Rupert’s Land have been chosen as pilot areas for Letting
Mississauga, Ont.The Council of General Synod (CoGS) will ask the national church’s eco-justice committee to request Kairos, a Canadian ecumenical justice group, to research the
New man in York Children carry out scores of balloons that were released after the recent enthronement of Ugandan-born John Sentamu (right) as Archbishop of
In other business, the Council of General Synod also: approved a resolution to send a message to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) urging a study
Oxford, OhioJews remained by far the greatest target of religious-based hate crimes in the United States in 2004, according to a recently-released report by the
Rome A long-awaited Vatican statement said that persons with “deep seated homosexual tendencies” should not under any circumstances become Roman Catholic priests.a? “The church cannot
July 2005 marked four exciting years since the historic ratification of the Waterloo Declaration in which full communion continues to be enthusiastically advanced between our
Bishop Ralph Spence of Niagara announced on Nov. 18 during the diocese’s annual synod, or governing convention, that Bishop Ann Tottenham, 65, has agreed to
Clergy and parishioners at St. Jude’s Cathedral, the landmark Arctic church in Iqaluit, Nunavut, are literally picking up the pieces after a fire gutted the
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is scheduled to attend the ninth assembly of the World Council of Churches this Feb.
OsloNorway’s 21,000-member Evangelical Lutheran Free Church has appointed its first woman pastor. Caroline Vesterberg from Sweden has been called to part-time service as children and
Strike a note Council of General Synod (CoGS) members Shelagh Balfour, Susan Winn and Karen Pidcock (foreground) sing during worship at the recent meeting of