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Boys run in the Zatari refugee camp in Jordan. There are more than 620,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan. Lebanon and Turkey are each sheltering more than a million. Photo: ACT Alliance

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Canada ‘not doing enough’ for Syrian refugees

Leigh Anne Williams December 23, 2014

The resumption of US-Cuban relations "abounds in hope for a movement from hostility to hospitality, embargo to engagement, alienation to accompaniment," says the Metropolitan Council of Cuba. File photo: Ali Symons/General Synod Communications

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Council praises ‘courageous leadership’ of Obama, Castro

André Forget December 23, 2014

At his annual meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Fred Hiltz spoke about the Commission on the Marriage Canon and about reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Anglicans. Photo: Tony Hisgett/Wikimedia.

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Hiltz and Welby discuss marriage canon, reconciliation

André Forget December 22, 2014

General Synod will decide whether to approve a motion to change the marriage canon when it meets in 2016.

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Anglican Communion body urges church not to change marriage policy

André Forget December 19, 2014

Bishop Griselda Delgado del Carpio, Episcopal Church of Cuba. Photo: General Synod Communications

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Bishop of Cuba thankful for ‘bridges of hope’

André Forget December 18, 2014

The Episcopal Church of Cuba traces its origins to the early 20th century and has around 3,500 members. Photo: General Synod Communications.

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US-Cuba thaw opens up possibilities for churches

André Forget December 17, 2014

A typical classroom scene at a primary school in Pakistan. Photo: UNESCO/Akhtar Soomro/UN News Service

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Primate prays for victims of Peshawar attack

Anglican Journal Staff December 17, 2014

Living Reconciliation places reconciliation at the heart of Christian ministry. Photo: contributed.

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New book on reconciliation a ‘timely’ resource

André Forget December 10, 2014

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Brazil leads 2015 Week of Prayer

Leigh Anne Williams December 8, 2014

Pat Lovell, lay delegate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, and Bishop Jane Alexander of the Diocese of Edmonton, consider how the church can faithfully engage with problematic Canadian mining practices. Photo: André Forget.

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Canadian mining practices have ‘imperial footprint’

André Forget November 19, 2014

Patriarchs and church leaders in Jerusalem recently underlined the importance of maintaining reasonable access to Holy sites in the “delicate political climate.” Photo:Wikimedia Commons/Andrew Shiva

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WCC condemns attack in synagogue

Anglican Journal Staff November 19, 2014

Anglican Church of Canada Global Relations Director Andrea Mann talks about how Jerusalem Sunday is helping build a a closer relationship between the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and Canadian Anglicans. Photo: André Forget.

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First Jerusalem Sunday ‘significant’

André Forget November 19, 2014

The Rev. Laurette Glasgow, the Anglican Church of Canada’s special advisor for government relations, says “more engagement” is needed. Photo: André Forget

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Church has responsibility to engage the state, says advisor

André Forget November 15, 2014

Participants at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, which took place at UN headquarters in New York at the end of September, celebrated the unanimous adoption of a document recommitting nations to the objectives of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Photo: UN Photo/Yubi Hoffmann

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Indigenous well-being integral to planet’s

Leigh Anne Williams November 12, 2014

Anglican Chaplain Geoffrey Cyril d’Easum’s sketch of a ruined Abbe of Mont St-Eloi near Arras in the north of France in 1919 was part of the special World War I art exhibit at the Canadian War Museum. Photo: Abbey of Mt St Eloi CWM 19990069-001 Beaverbrook Collection of War Art © Canadian War Museum

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The soldier as artist

Diana Swift November 7, 2014

“When we speak out for religious freedom, we are not engaging in theological debate; we are talking about human rights,” says Canada’s ambassador for the Office of Religious Freedom. Photo: André Forget

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Ambassador discusses Office of Religious Freedom

André Forget November 6, 2014

Bishop Terry Brown talks to the Canadian Church Historical Society about the famous “Red Dean of Canterbury.” Photo: André Forget

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Conference highlights ‘rich heritage’ of church archives

André Forget November 5, 2014

Squeezing ISIS’ source of funds is a better solution than airstrikes, the Rev. Nadim Nassar tells a gathering at St. John’s (Stone) Church. He also says”religious reconciliation” is necessary to rebuild trust in Syria and Iraq. Photo: Beatrice Paez

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Iraq airstrikes not a solution, says Syrian priest

Beatrice Paez October 30, 2014

Health workers clad in protective gear in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, which has been worst hit by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Photo: Marlon Lopez/UN News

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‘No option for failure’ in fight against Ebola

André Forget October 29, 2014

Criticism of Christian Zionism is not an attack on the country of Israel, explains Gary Burge, a professor of New Testament studies at Wheaton College. Photo: Neale Adams

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Vancouver event tackles Christian Zionism

Neale Adams October 28, 2014

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