The Anglican Church of Canada has launched an online news platform allowing readers to access the websites of the Anglican Journal and diocesan newspapers from a single location, while also making it easy for the newspapers themselves to share each other’s articles.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is distributing $80,000 to 14 Indigenous communities stricken by COVID-19’s Omicron variant in northern Manitoba and Ontario.
Gibson was a professor at Trinity College, a recipient of the Cross of St. Augustine—an award from the Archbishop of Canterbury for outstanding service to the worldwide communion—and a liturgist for the Anglican Church of Canada, best known for his work on the Book of Alternative Services (BAS). He died on Jan. 14 after a prolonged illness with Parkinson’s disease.
“In a time when we’re accustomed to fallen heroes, Desmond Tutu was the real thing,” recalls Michael Ingham, retired bishop of New Westminster.