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
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
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
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
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