The Council of General Synod (CoGS) today adopted a balanced budget forGeneral Synod in 2014, which forecasts revenues of $11.538 million andexpenses amounting to $11.451 million.
The Rev. Ueli Burkhalter recently visited the backyard of Yamileth “Millett” Solano in Costa Rica-he wanted to see for himself how her small business, made possible through a $350 Oikocredit loan, was faring.
The newly constructed St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut, may close its doors unless funds are raised to pay the balance of its construction debt, according to the diocese of the Arctic.
David Scott, a representative of the London-based New England Company (NEC), said he was grateful he had the opportunity to witness the B.C. National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), held Sept. 18 to 21 in Vancouver.
When Charon Spinks and her husband, Tim, got married in 1962, he asked her to promise that if they ever had children, they wouldn’t hand down to them what they had learned and experienced at St. George’s Indian Residential School in Lytton, B.C.
A Japanese-Canadian and a West Papuan studying here were among thousands who took part in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s B.C. National Event, held Sept. 18 to 21, and both said they have been transformed by the experience.
Early in the evening of Sept. 19, soothing, live harp music greets local Anglicans and visitors who enter the doors of St. David’s, a small church in the Anglican diocese of New Westminster, located in the heart of East Village, a culturally diverse neighbourhood.
Archbishop John Privett, bishop of the diocese of Kootenay and metropolitan (senior bishop) of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and the Yukon, said he has experienced “deeply moving” moments at the ongoing B.C. National Event hosted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) here.
On Sept. 18, Holocaust survivor Robert Waisman stood before an audience that included former students of Canada’s Indian residential schools and spoke about the horrors that he experienced as a teenager at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during World War II.
A Tsleil-Waututh Nation youth paid tribute to the courage of his grandmother, a premier offered an apology for the harms done to aboriginal children in residential schools and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) commissioner urged Canadians to join the conversation about how Canada must come to terms with its past.
One by one they came, in cedar dugout and fibreglass replica canoes bearing names such as Soaring Eagle, Dancing Serpent and The Singing Coho, with corresponding images carved out in the distinctive, bold black and red colours of Haida art.
As people commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March to Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 28, an American seminary has co-produced a short film retelling the famous last four minutes of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.
“There’s something that breaks inside of us when we go through a trauma, an atrocity and we turn for help to people, and they turn their faces away. For years, we Canadians have turned our faces from the reality of residential schools…”
Archbishop Michael Peers, former primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, today said that much has changed in the church’s relationship with First Nations people since the historic apology he delivered 20 years ago for the church’s role in the Indian residential schools system.
The Trustees of the General Synod Pension Plan is asking members to vote on a proposal that will enable the Ontario government to consider granting it three years to improve the plan’s funding level and avoid immediate pension reductions in the range of 20 to 30 per cent.
In response to the suicide crisis affecting some native communities in western Canada and in the Arctic, the Anglican Church of Canada’s indigenous ministries department has appointed a new suicide prevention co-ordinator for that region.
For some Canadian Anglicans, General Synod’s decision on July 6 tobring to its next meeting in 2016 a resolution changing the church’slaw to allow same-sex marriage will bring new life; but others argue itwill only serve to precipitate its decline.
General Synod on July 6 approved a resolution that will bring the issueof same-sex marriage to a vote at the meeting of the Anglican Church ofCanada’s governing body in 2016.
Bishop Lydia Mamakwa wiped away tears of joy, while Archbishop DavidAshdown and Archbishop Fred Hiltz swayed as a hymn was sung, minutesafter General Synod on July 6 gave its unanimous concurrence to thecreation of an indigenous diocese in northern Ontario.
Archdeacon Michael Thompson, the national church’s general secretary,underscored the importance of the work that’s before the Council ofGeneral Synod (CoGS) at the initial meeting of its newly elected memberson July 6.
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