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

Healing relations through Bishops’ dialogue

Anglican bishops enter Canterbury Cathedral for Opening Eucharist at the 2008 Lambeth Conference. Photo: Beatrice Paez Two primates and 18 bishops from Africa and North

Getting serious about greening churches

(L to R): Ted Reeve, executive director of Faith & the Common Good, and Ken Gray of the Anglican Communion Environment Network. Photo:Marites Sison The

What’s next for Haiti?

Facing the future. Students attending the all-girls L’Externat La Providence school in Port-au-Prince. Photo: Chris Bo / Getstock No one said it was going to

Coming home

The Rev. Cathy Stone has just parked her car behind an imposing black and white Victorian building. “That’s Cameron House,” she says, pointing to the

Kairos questions grant paper

Oda The ecumenical justice group, Kairos, has questioned the “transparency and accountability” of the Canadian International Development Agency’s (CIDA) granting process after it was recently

Anglican Communion primates and officials pose for a group shot at the end of their meeting in Dublin, Ireland. Photo: ACNS

Interview with the Primate

As he waited at London’s Heathrow International Airport to fly back to Toronto, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, spoke to

National strategy needed for poverty reduction

Family and child poverty rates in Canada are unacceptably high. Photo portrait: Jaimie Duplass The Anglican and Lutheran churches in Canada have asked the federal

Haiti one year later: Is recovery possible?

A girl participates in a dance, which is part of a comprehensive psychosocial programme supported by the ACT Alliance in post-earthquake Haiti. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT

Questions remain about cut in Kairos funding

The ecumenical justice group, Kairos, has questioned the “transparency and accountability” of the Canadian International Development’s granting process after it was recently revealed in the

The little trailer church that could

There have been stories about churches being remodelled into a residential property. But a home-a trailer home to be exact-being converted into a church? Innovative

How to wear a poppy

Total sincerity: Dorothy Chanbers The tone of her letter is delightful. The Thunder Bay, Ont. sticky address label proudly states that she is a Royal

An elder shares a youngster's joy at a pow-wow held during the first national TRC event. Photo: Marites N. Sison

We’ve only just begun’

The first national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) achieved “remarkable acts of reconciliation,” according to Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the TRC.

Paying it forward

The Rev. Tammy Hodge didn’t know it then, but the vision for her ministry was planted 20 years ago in a little Anglican parish in

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