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.
The Council of the North and the national office’s department of Indigenous Ministries are looking to collaborate more closely on suicide prevention, say sources from both offices.
Serving with Mission to Seafarers, says the Rev. Eric Phinney, can be an eye-opening experience in many respects-down to the way you see items on a store shelf.
The Anglican Church of Canada and United Church of Canada ought to work more closely together in the here-and-now despite their outstanding theological differences, a recently released report by an ecumenical panel of the two churches recommends.
With the approach of National Housing Day 2016 on November 22, leaders of the Anglican Church in Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) are asking for prayers for the homeless and under-housed.
In Mozambique, not all health centres have electricity, and light can be hard to come by when night sets in.
A regiment of army reservists can soon expect to have greater access to mental health services with the launch this fall of a new ministry in the diocese of Edmonton.
In Haiti and elsewhere, on-the-ground assessments and regular inspection of partner agencies’ documents are among the safeguards The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has in place to ensure donations from Canadians will be well-spent, officials with the relief and development agency say.
Four Advent devotions, written by four heads of Anglican and Lutheran churches in North America, will soon be available for members of all four churches.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is looking into expanding its work in Canadian Indigenous communities, recently named executive director Will Postma says.
We may be living in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (and many others) have called a secular age, but that doesn’t mean governments around the world have stopped trying to control the religious behaviour of their citizens.
The Anglican Church of Canada’s relief and development agency is asking for donations to support the people of Haiti as they attempt to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
A Canadian Anglican has been chosen to head one of the world’s most prestigious universities.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is asking Anglicans to join him in prayer for Aleppo, the Syrian city suffering from a recently stepped-up bombing campaign.
Sometime before he was about to embark on his cross-province bicycle ride this June, Bishop Rob Hardwick, of the diocese of Qu’Appelle, was approached by someone wanting to know what the point of it was.
In the wake of July’s vote on same-sex marriages at General Synod, Indigenous Anglicans intend to “proceed towards self-determination with urgency,” the Anglican Church of Canada’s three Indigenous bishops say.
After eight years in the role, Bishop Robert Bennett, of the diocese of Huron, will retire Nov. 1, 2016.
Archbishop John Privett, who has served as metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and Yukon since 2009, has been unanimously re-elected for another seven-year term.
A Saskatchewan-born son of a residential school survivor has been chosen to lead Indigenous ministry in the diocese of Toronto.
A gay man living with a male partner is among three priests to have been elected suffragan bishops in the diocese of Toronto this weekend.
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