Marites N. Sison

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  • Marites N. Sison

    Marites (Tess) Sison was editor of the Anglican Journal from August 2014 to July 2018, and senior staff writer from December 2003 to July 2014. An award-winning journalist, she has more that three decades of professional journalism experience in Canada and overseas. She has contributed to The Toronto Star and CBC Radio, and worked as a stringer for The New York Times.

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ARTICLES

It’s God who’s in charge, not us’

Photo: contributed Seeing young people in church has never failed to give Bishop George Bruce of the diocese of Ontario a boost. Mentoring young men

Future of Moosonee goes before June synod

The diocese has put up about 20 buildings and properties for sale, including the bishop’s residence, shown here. Photo: Courtesy of The Northland Facing financial

Justice Murray Sinclair, TRC chair, at a healing and reconciliation event in Winnipeg last summer. Photo: Marites N. Sison

Residential schools staff urged to share stories

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) is urging former staff members of Indian residential schools to share their memories, saying that they can help the TRC prepare “a more comprehensive” history of the legacy of the residential school system.

(L to R) PWRDF Board vice-chair, the Rev. David Pritchard, executive director Adele Finney, and board member, (ret.) Bishop Tom Morgan. Photo: Marites N. Sison

Quiz federal election candidates, says PWRDF

Mississauga, Ont. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is encouraging Canadian Anglicans to quiz candidates in the May federal elections about whether they

Shared national office gets mixed reviews

Canadian Anglican and Lutheran executive officers at their first joint meeting. Photo: Marites N. Sison Mississauga, Ont.The idea of a shared national office, possibly located

Indigenous ministry pioneer dies at 89

Archdeacon William Winter (center), with his brother, Samuel (left), and National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald. Photo: Courtesy of Diocese of Keewatin Archdeacon William Winter,

We think we are in control’

A helping hand Bishop Victoria Matthews comforts a Christchurch parishioner.Photo: Lloyd Ashton/Anglican Taonga She may be living out of a sleeping bag after the devastating

An absolute joy to behold’

Members of the executive councils of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada at their first joint meeting. Photo: Marites

Oda apologizes for ‘confusion’

The House of Commons is examining whether Minister Bev Oda is in contempt of Parliament over her explanation on why Kairos lost its funding. Photo:

‘They gave us more than they had’

Parish of La Trinidad, Bermeja, Cuba, awaits mortar and wages to begin church renovations. Photo: Andrea Mann A new relationship, characterized by a deep commitment

Churches to watchdog poverty reform

The Anglican and Lutheran churches in Canada are pressing the federal government for immediate, concrete action to reduce the “unacceptably high” rates of poverty and

We’ve prayed for them daily’

Journeying together l-r: Archbishop Walder Dunlop Holder, Church in the Province of the West Indies, U.S. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Archbishop Armando Roman Guerra

Primate calls for end to violence in Libya

Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in 2009. Photo: UN Photo/Marco Castro Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the

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