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
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
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
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.
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison’s inaugural fundraising dinner in Toronto on October 25 raised a net amount of “more than $60,000,” according to Jim Cullen, acting controller
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
Maggie Sutherland, a resident of L’Arche Cape Breton, with the community’s co-founder, Tom Gunn. One of the qualities I love most about life here at
The shape of the Lambeth Conference in 2008 was to have been decided at a key meeting in London last December, according to a report
AIDS reality A Chinese health worker (not seen) pins a red ribbon on a girl in Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou province. They were participating in
The arrival of the first major movie production of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has prompted dozens of new
A gay Anglican priest from the diocese of New Westminster has gone public that he’s dying of AIDS and urged Health Canada to grant him
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 end stages of this mortal life are filled with deep emotions, many of which struggle to come to the surface in an honest and
Corporations Canada, a federal agency that regulates corporate names, on Sept. 12 ordered a group of dissident churches to stop using the name “Anglican Communion
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
Mississauga, Ont.The Anglican Church of Canada’s $519 million pension fund is financially healthy, but membership is aging and this is a source of concern for
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,
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
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