As the halfway point between the last and the next General Synod approaches, issues around same-sex marriage continue to be an important cause of concern among the church’s bishops, says Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Quebec’s recently-passed Bill 62, which bans the wearing of niqabs and other face coverings to people both providing and receiving government services, could ultimately threaten
It was 72 years ago, when Setsuko Thurlow was just 13, that she somehow escaped death after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on her city, Hiroshima, Japan.
An Anglican priest who took part in a Reformation commemoration in Wittenberg, Germany this summer says she was deeply impressed by the way it combined contemporary expressions of the Gospel with a setting steeped in history.
A Manitoba ex-priest being sued for allegedly sexually exploiting a female parishioner is admitting that he had a sexual relationship with her, but claims it was consensual.
The synod of the diocese of Calgary has asked the diocesan bishop to allow the blessing of same-sex unions.
Five existing Anglican and Lutheran churches in Peterborough could be merged into a single church, and a new “mission church” planted elsewhere in the city, under a proposal put forth earlier this month by the area bishop.
From the beginning, Protestants have tended to read their Bibles both for personal inspiration and to help them argue about God—and a healthy Christianity requires a good balance of the two, a U.K. historian of religion says.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, says sanctions will likely be placed on the church by the primates of the Anglican Communion if it proceeds to amend the marriage canon (church law) to allow same-sex marriages.
What’s being commemorated this year? Five hundred years ago, on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, then a professor at the University of Wittenberg, nailed a
A former dean of the Anglican diocese of Brandon is being sued for allegedly sexually exploiting a former parishioner. According to a CBC story published
Logan McMenamie, bishop of the diocese of British Columbia, is calling on the federal and B.C. governments to shut down fish-farming operations on traditional territories
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is contributing $20,000 to a planned food assistance program for the Rohingya people of Myanmar, victims of what some have called an ethnic cleansing program by the country’s military.
The general secretary of a group that represents Anglican churches in Africa says a partnership to support micro-lending to African women could be an important way to advance gender justice on the continent.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, says he hopes human trafficking will be in the spotlight when primates from across the
Joelle Kidd, an award-winning writer and former editor, has joined the Anglican Journal as its newest staff writer.
A New Brunswick Anglican parish involved in a controversial campground project has been asked by the provincial government to respond to it on 86 points, including the project’s possible impacts on wildlife, local water quality and environmentally sensitive land.
With Anglican primates from around the world set to meet for five days of talks in Canterbury, England, October 2, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is calling for prayers on a range of issues.
The changes to church law needed to create a self-determining spiritual community for Indigenous Canadian Anglicans could conceivably be made as early as 2019, says Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Michael Bird, who has served as bishop of Niagara since 2008, will be stepping down as of June 1, 2018 to take up a “new, yet-to-be announced ministry position” with the diocese of Ottawa, the diocese of Niagara announced Tuesday, September 12.
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