A Canadian priest serving on the Anglican Communion’s delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session this March says she’s glad the commission was able to agree on a number of issues of concern this year, especially gender equality in education.
The home church of John Meade, who died last November, months after being elected coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Western Newfoundland, has set up an annual scholarship to honour his memory.
B.C. university chaplain draws throngs of students with ‘Pet Café’ An Anglican chaplain at the University of Victoria, B.C., says she has been attracting students
The diocese of Ottawa is considering tearing down some of its existing churches and replacing them with complexes that would include, among other things, affordable housing units, its director of mission says.
George Holtby Cram, a former secretary of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), died Friday, March 16, 2018, at age 79.
There’s value in praying to effect change—but if our prayers don’t affect our actions, something might be amiss, some Canadian Anglicans say. Since the mass
The Anglican Church of Canada will continue to have some sort of a relationship with the church in Cuba even if—as appears likely—it becomes a diocese of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church (TEC), says Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Our exploitative attitude toward creation has separated us from God—but we can restore our relationship with God by being better stewards of the earth, congregants at a Toronto service for World Day of Prayer 2018 heard Friday, March 2.
An Anglican-affiliated college in Ontario is introducing a non-credit course this spring in Indigenous/non-Indigenous reconciliation.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is asking the federal government to step up its support for Palestinian refugees after a recent decision by the United States to slash its funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is requesting prayers for U.S. bishops and students calling for changes to gun laws in the wake of a mass shooting at a Florida high school February 14.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is joining Pope Francis and other church leaders in calling for prayers and fasting for two war-torn African nations next Friday, February 23.
In what’s believed to be the first formal meeting between the Anglican Church of Canada and Mennonite Church Canada, members of each church learned what both might be able to share with one another in Waterloo, Ont., February 2-3.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, says he’s considering creating a new position to advance accessibility in the church, after being presented with a report describing a number of challenges faced by disabled Canadian Anglicans.
The Anglican Church of Canada’s global relations director says she’s looking into building closer connections with an interfaith organization that works to increase co-operation in health care between Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land.
In Ontario, two Anglican-Lutheran church mergers Two joint Anglican-Lutheran congregations were formed this fall with the mergers of Anglican and Lutheran churches in Orillia and
Mark Genge, who served as the first bishop of the diocese of Central Newfoundland from 1976–1990, died the night of January 17, the ecclesiastical province
Changes now being considered to the structure of the United Church of Canada could conceivably ease clergy-sharing and other forms of co-operation between that church
Quebec City’s Anglican community will be one of six spiritual groups gathering to offer reflective song and prayer to the public Sunday, January 28 at a commemoration of the mass shooting at the city’s Grand Mosque a year ago.
As Canadians age, people with dementia are becoming increasingly common in our congregations—and there’s more we can be doing to make our churches welcoming to these people, an Anglican authority on aging says.
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