Recovering drug addicts at a rehabilitation centre run by the Amity Foundation, a church-run NGO. Kunming Some had their hands outstretched as though imploring, others
Young boy at Tiananmen Square, now a favourite family haunt. Kunming, otherwise known as the “City of Eternal Spring” is by far the most colourful
Bishop Mvume Dandala says corruption has made some Canadians critical of granting an unconditional cancellation of the developing world’s debts owed to international governments and
General Synod has asked a leader in the area of gift planning and annual giving in Canada to conduct an independent audit of the Anglican
Rev. David Torraville After a one-year delay, the diocese of Central Newfoundland, in an electoral synod held September 9-10, finally chose a new bishop: Rev.
Beijing Westerners are often baffled at the rate of Christian conversions in China – where public evangelism is banned, where the state imposes regulations on
Conservative Canadian Anglicans, who met in Toronto June 16-18, were urged to join two new groups, one of them working towards becoming the official replacement
Some donations given by Canadians for the victims of last December’s tsunami have in a perverse way ended up contributing to human rights violations in
Bronze statues depict the survivors of the Nanjing massacre. We traveled by train from Shanghai to Nanjing, the old capital, for four-and-a-half hours. After bumper-to-bumper
Archdeacon Edwin Stanley (“Ted”) Light, who served as general secretary of General Synod, the Anglican Church of Canada’s governing body, from 1968 to 1979, died
Archdeacon John Elswood Privett, rector of the parish of Christ Church, Edmonton, was elected bishop of Kootenay on May 28. Bishop-elect Privett, 49, was elected
(Left, top to bottom) Rev. Carolyn Langford, Joanne Chaytor and Rev. Stanley Isherwood are the new Anglican Volunteers in Mission. (Right) Presbyterian volunteers Chelsea Noelle
Amity Printing Press worker packs Bibles for distribution to various centres across China, where they are sold for as little as 12 yuan ($1.81). Nanjing
The Anglican diocese of the Arctic has given notice that it will not employ the following: anyone having pre-marital sex, homosexuals, lesbians and bisexuals, those
Beijing The Chinese government said it is ready to restore diplomatic relations with the Vatican under the new Pope, Benedict XVI, provided the Holy See
Mississauga, Ont. Council of General Synod (CoGS), during its spring meeting here, approved a proposal to reduce the $10.7 million 2005 budget of General Synod
Mississauga, Ont. A national church commission has concluded that the blessings of same-sex unions is “a matter of doctrine,” thereby giving General Synod, not diocesan
Mississauga, Ont. Two years after securing a residential schools agreement with the federal government that limits liability, the national church is signaling that it would
Mississauga, Ont. Effective July 1, employees who are part of the national church’s Continuing Education Plan (CEP) must prove that any course they plan to
Billboard of Mao Zedong hovers over Christian woman with Bible. Beijing It is not quite a church yet but this Sunday (as in any given