A task force charged with coming up with proposals for guiding the responsible investing of more than a billion dollars’ worth of Anglican Church of Canada investment funds by this past spring is going to need more time, Council of General Synod (CoGS) heard Friday, June 23.
In an opening address before the spring session of Council of General Synod (CoGS) Friday, June 23, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, reflected on the church’s role in society and encouraged council members to look beyond the church’s quarrels and divisions to its wider calling of bringing justice to the world in areas such as Indigenous rights, poverty and human trafficking.
The founding of a new federal body to monitor reconciliation efforts in Canada and the creation of a new statutory holiday—a “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”—are among a number of Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action singled out for reflection by Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, in a special Aboriginal Day message.
The Anglican diocese of Yukon is inviting Christians to Whitehorse this summer for four days of praise and rejuvenation in the time of midnight sun.
The diocese of Caledonia has decided to accept last month’s ruling by the provincial House of Bishops to block the consecration of the Rev. Jake Worley as bishop, its administrator says.
Canon Dennis Dolloff was put in a wheelchair 38 years ago, after being struck by a drunk driver. But his disability didn’t stop him from wanting to be a priest.
The rector of an Anglican parish on the Ottawa River near Montreal says she’s impressed by how people worked together to save the homes of others threatened by recent flooding.
With the approach of Jerusalem Sunday this weekend, the Anglican Church of Canadas national office has released new liturgical resources, including reflections from a pilgrimage by Ottawa-area women to the Holy Land last year.
The Canadian member of the Anglican Communion’s delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session this spring says she feels that, despite the enormity of the event, her group was able to have some effect on its outcome.
A provincial House of Bishops’ objection to the episcopacy of Caledonia bishop-elect the Rev. Jake Worley released earlier this week was a very unpleasant surprise, says the diocesan administrator, who has called meetings to allow the diocese to discern its next steps.
The Rev. Jake Worley, elected bishop of the diocese of Caledonia April 22, will not be consecrated, after a ruling by the House of Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon.
The Synod of the Diocese of Keewatin is among the parties named in a proposed $110-million class action suit on behalf of victims of Ralph Rowe, a former Anglican priest convicted of dozens of sex offences against Indigenous boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
At the office of Harcourts, Ltd., a Toronto robe-making and tailoring company, a grinning assistant production manager Shafiq Beig is showing me one of his favourite tricks.
Two Canadian Anglican priests have been granted honorary doctorates of divinity by the University of Toronto’s Trinity College.
A disestablished Anglican church in Ladysmith, B.C., has been sold to a local community organization that plans to build affordable housing on the site.
A historic building put up for sale last summer by the diocese of Ontario attracted a buyer faster and at much better terms than expected, Bishop Michael Oulton says.
A focus group tasked with working out the details of what a self-determining Indigenous church will look like is considering a model in which Indigenous Anglicans will belong to both their local dioceses and the Indigenous church at the same time.
It is fitting, says Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, that the 60th anniversary of the Anglican Foundation of Canada will be celebrated this May in Vancouver.
From a textile show to special chocolates, the Anglican Foundation of Canada is planning to mark its 60th anniversary this year with a range of events and commemorative materials.
The diocese of Ontario is planning to put the $115,000 that was returned to it under the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement to support First Nations-related projects in a variety of ways, including ministry in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near Belleville, Ont.
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