Marites N. Sison

  • 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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Canadian church is ‘frustrated’

Archbishop Fred Hiltz says he was frustrated that a request to allow the Anglican Church of Canada to state its position fell on deaf ears.

Proposed covenant receives tentative nod

Canterbury, England Bishops of the Anglican Communion ended their conference with a statement saying that “there were many positive responses to the idea of a

Bishops, spouses tackle abuse against women

Dr. Maria Akrofi, a medical doctor who is married to Archbishop Justice Akrofi, primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa, called attention

Cartoonist licensed to poke fun at Lambeth

David Walker’s cartoons were a hit among bishops who regularly visited his tent. Canterbury, EnglandDave Walker’s hair is a wacky mass of curls. His sense

Draft covenant improves

Mississauga, Ont. The second draft of the proposed international Anglican covenant shows “a significant improvement” from the previous one although there are still some areas

Arctic critical of four dioceses

The synod of the diocese of the Arctic, meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut from May 27 to June 3, passed a motion criticizing decisions by four

One body breathing one air

“We treat the environment as an object and see nature as a thing that needs to be saved.” Faith groups need to “dismantle the culture

Lutheran dialogue has mission focus

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that “an emerging focus around mission” characterized a spring gathering of the third Anglican-Lutheran

ACIP calls for national summit

Mississauga, Ont.The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) has proposed a national summit to discuss the issue of non-stipendiary, or unpaid, aboriginal clergy, most of

Bishops share common commitment to remain biblical

Archbishop David Moxon, co-presiding bishop in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, and bishop of Waikato. Canterbury, EnglandAcknowledging that varying and often-clashing biblical interpretations about homosexuality

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