On a Sunday in the Easter season, not too long ago, many among the congregation at All Saints Kingsway, Toronto, preparing to sing a psalm, suddenly noticed something familiar about the tune.
The bishop of Fredericton has put forth a proposal for the possible sale and development of millions of dollars’ worth of historic church property in the heart of New Brunswick’s capital city.
Archbishop Percy Coffin, metropolitan of the province of Canada since 2014 and bishop of the diocese of Western Newfoundland since 2003, is planning to retire following the election of a successor this summer.
A collaborative anti-poverty initiative co-chaired by Jane Alexander, bishop of Edmonton, will receive $2.4 million in funding from the city over the next two years-and the diocese is undertaking a slew of its own projects to support it.
Last November, 25 lay women from the diocese of Ottawa spent nearly two weeks in the Holy Land, part of an effort to deepen the existing partnership between that diocese and the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.
Austin Cooke, a parishioner at St. Barnabas’s Anglican Church in Ottawa, would be the first to admit he’s unusually enthusiastic about the Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James, the network of pilgrimage routes to the saint’s legendary burial spot in northeast Spain.
The main purpose of the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain’s Anglican Centre planned for Santiago de Compostela is to give Anglicans and other pilgrims an opportunity to actually receive communion when they finish their pilgrimage, says the Rev. Spencer Reece, an Episcopal priest and national secretary to the bishop of Spain.
A week before the inauguration of Donald Trump, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is asking for prayers for the United States.
Half a millennium after the beginning of a movement that caused both reform and deep divisions in Western Christendom, Christians worldwide are being asked to reflect on the theme of reconciliation.
The focus of “Giving with Grace,” the Anglican Church of Canada’s annual fundraising campaign, in 2017 will be to replenish the church’s fund for Indigenous healing, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, announced this week.
A well-known carol suggests that Christmas ought to be a surprising time for Christians, writes Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, in his annual Christmas message.
A small group of Anglicans and Lutherans in southern Ontario has formed to raise awareness of issues related to Indigenous-non Indigenous reconciliation.
In what is being hailed as a break from patterns of the past, the Bible is being translated into a Canadian Indigenous language entirely on the initiative of Indigenous people.
Canon Reginald Stackhouse, whose career spanned journalism, the priesthood, academia and politics, died at Toronto Western Hospital December 14. He was 91.
A church commission is proposing four ways that Anglicans across Canada can take part in the task of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada: praying, learning, building relationships and acting.
It was standing-room-only for some at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, as a celebration of the end of major building work November 17 drew nearly three times the number of people organizers expected.
In a study whose results he says will probably be controversial, a Canadian professor contends that theologically conservative mainline Protestant churches are more likely to grow while their liberal counterparts decline.
It takes a while for Amy* to come to the door of her apartment, and when she finally does, it seems she isn’t up for a visit.
“Did you get my message?” she asks Nancy Truscott, parish nurse at St. Paul’s Bloor Street, who has come to see her. “I’m not well today.”
Emmanuel Gatera was only five when trauma of a kind so familiar to his fellow Rwandans first began to afflict his young brain.
Four decades after the first women were ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada, much progress remains to be made, say female priests who profess to have struggled with everything from unequal pay to inappropriate touching by some parishioners.
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