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.
About 70 Anglicans from across Canada are gathering in Pinawa, Man., this weekend for a major consultation on the nature of the planned Indigenous Anglican church.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is committing $40,000 to help those stricken by Hurricane Irma in Cuba and Haiti, it announced Tuesday,
Ask Amanda Avery about the eight months she recently spent in a convent, and a lot of adjectives tumble forth. “Boring” isn’t one of them.
Archbishop Harold Lee Nutter, who died September 9 at age 93, is being mourned by many as a gentle, humble pastor who oversaw the diocese of Fredericton and the ecclesiastical province of Canada through a time of considerable turmoil.
The Season of Creation, a recently-evolved observance meant to encourage prayer and care for the Earth, begins today, September 1, and the Anglican Church of Canada has prepared a special web page of links to liturgical resources and other materials related to the event.
The Anglican Church of Canada joined more than 50 other organizations—some religious, some secular—in a joint statement against hate released by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), an advocacy group for Canadian Jewish groups, Sunday, August 27.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is making a grant of $25,000 to help people affected by flooding in Nepal, PWRDF announced Monday, August 21.
A Leamington, Ont., church is renting out space in its basement to local Muslims for use as a mosque.
A tiny off-grid church in rural British Columbia has become one of the Anglican Church of Canada’s latest solar-powered buildings.
The Anglican Church of Canada will have, starting this fall, a new staff person in charge of relations with other religious organizations. The Rev. Scott
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), the Anglican Church of Canada’s relief and developmentagency, is making an immediate contribution of $5,000 to help the Territory of the People provide relief to people affected by wildfires in the territory, PWRDF announced Wednesday, July 19.
In less than three and a half months, the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) raised $379,000 for famine relief in Africa and the Middle East—money that will qualify for matching funds from Ottawa, the Anglican Church of Canada’s relief and development arm announced Wednesday, July 12.
With the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation this year, many are marking the occasion using an item not often associated with theology: a child’s plastic toy.
A Toronto Anglican priest will head to Wittenberg, Germany, this summer as part of a Canadian Lutheran delegation to help mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
Mississauga, Ont. More than a quarter of a million dollars has been raised so far this year for the Anglican Fund for Healing and Reconciliation
A series of reports on the planned self-determining Canadian Indigenous Anglican church presented to Council of General Synod (CoGS) Saturday, June 24, met with a mixture of approval and concern.
A request by the diocese of Rupert’s Land to no longer have a print version of the Anglican Journal distributed in the diocese has led to the raising of questions about whether the newspaper should be produced in print form.
Mississauga, Ont. A working group will be formed to gather information about the pay of employees across the Anglican Church of Canada with the ultimate
Siobhan Bennett, a youth member from the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, had tears in her eyes even before she started addressing the other members of the Council of General Synod (CoGS). It wasn’t long before they knew why.
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