The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) will be changing its name to something simpler that better communicates its purpose, the Rev. Cynthia Haines-Turner, one of PWRDF’s board members, announced March 3 at the Council of General Synod (CoGS).
The Council of General Synod (CoGS) met for an hour and a half March 3 to discuss an open letter from someone claiming to have been the person whose sexual misconduct complaint resulted in the resignation last May of former National Indigenous Archbishop Mark MacDonald.
The church may soon have a new commission tasked with finding potentially “radical solutions” to the demographic and financial challenges that now face it.
Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, released a statement Jan. 20 affirming the dignity of LGBTQ+ people and their place in
The Five Marks of Mission, debated and refined over the decades since they were first introduced in 1984, are meant both to describe and encourage
Third instalment of Hearing the Lambeth Calls, a 10-part series on the calls to the global Anglican Communion made at the 2022 Lambeth Conference. This month’s
The need for donations to aid in relief and rebuilding after earthquakes in Syria and Turkey will remain urgent for several months, says Janice Biehn,
The Rev. Harold Percy, a former incumbent at Trinity Anglican Church in Streetsville, Ont., tells a story of the night the church caught fire in
It could be sometime in March before people displaced by a fire at an Anglican-affiliated subsidized housing facility in Toronto will be able to return,
Despite the suffering caused by the enforced solitude many people have had to endure since March 2020, for at least some it seems to have
An individual donor has given the Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) $150,000 toward an effort to help house retired, non-stipendiary clergy in Council of the
First instalment of Hearing the Lambeth Calls, a 10-part series on the calls to the global Anglican Communion made at the 2022 Lambeth Conference. This
The Anglican Church of Canada is shrinking faster than it was in the years before a much-discussed 2019 report, recently collected data suggest. According to
The Anglican Church of Canada’s national office is forecast to have a balanced budget this year—but substantial deficits and program cuts are likely in the
“Everybody lost a lot of friends out here,” says an Indigenous elder who gives his name simply as Dave. He’s sitting on a bench outside Holy Trinity Church in Toronto, where he has both relied on the church’s services for unhoused and street-involved people over the past two years and taken a leading role in helping provide them.
Bishop Michael Hawkins, of the diocese of Saskatchewan, says he expects to resign from his position effective April 30, 2023 due to health problems he has been experiencing since a severe bout of COVID-19 in late 2020.
In her address to the November meeting of the Council of General Synod (CoGS), Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, urged Anglicans to be gentle with one another as they face a time marked by challenges including the stress and exhaustion of keeping the church going through an ongoing pandemic and growing financial insecurity in some dioceses.
I’ve been a part of an Anglican church my whole life. My friends’ mothers tell me stories about how they changed my diapers in the
A selection committee appointed by the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) will begin interviewing eight candidates for the position of national Indigenous Anglican archbishop
The top concern of this year’s World Council of Churches (WCC) Assembly was unquestionably climate change, says Canon Scott Sharman, the Anglican Church of Canada’s
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