Regional News Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/category/regional-news/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:16:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Regional News Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/category/regional-news/ 32 32 170042892 Priest’s Lego church replicas draw life-sized attention https://anglicanjournal.com/priests-lego-church-replicas-draw-life-sized-attention/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:00:14 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=212802 The Rev. James Spencer has been building with Lego since he was eight years old. Today, that lifelong hobby is getting his parish, St. Mary’s Anglican Church with buildings in Clarenville and Burgoyne’s Cove, Nfld. noticed online—and forming the heart of a new ministry to local children. 

Over the last year, Spencer has been building a pair of Lego models of the Clarenville and Burgoyne’s cove church buildings—built at the scale of one Lego “stud” (the basic unit of Lego blocks, demarcated by one of the nubs that let the bricks interlock) to one foot. 

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]]> 212802 Religious scholar: Canada becoming ‘post-secular’ society https://anglicanjournal.com/religious-scholar-canada-becoming-post-secular-society/ Mon, 15 May 2023 18:43:48 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=172540 New forms of spirituality, revival of traditional Indigenous beliefs, rising immigration and debates on secularism are blurring the line between religion and non-religion in Canada, scholar David Seljak says—part of what he calls a “permanent revolution” and the latest development in how religion has shaped the country’s social order. Seljak, a professor of religious studies […]

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]]> 172540 Nunavut Anglican church destroyed in back-to-back church fires https://anglicanjournal.com/nunavut-anglican-church-destroyed-in-back-to-back-church-fires/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:00:49 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=172158 Diocese of the Arctic Bishop David Parsons has called the destruction by fire of an Anglican church in Kinngait, Nunavut “a terrible loss” and demoralizing for the diocese. St. John’s Anglican Church burned down on Jan. 9 just three days after another fire damaged the Living Water Church in the same community. Alexander Pryor, the […]

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]]> 172158 Oulton to resign as bishop of Ontario https://anglicanjournal.com/oulton-to-resign-as-bishop-of-ontario/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:00:25 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=171800 Bishop Michael Oulton has announced plans to resign as bishop of Ontario, making way for his successor to attend the next diocesan synod and General Synod.

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]]> 171800 Around the dioceses, March 2020 https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-march-2020/ https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-march-2020/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:47:06 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162978 Archdeaconry recommends merging of five Regina parishes Bishop Rob Hardwick and the Qu’Appelle diocesan council have received recommendations from St. Cuthbert’s Archdeaconry for the future of its seven parishes in Regina and one outside of the city. The archdeaconry recommends the merging of five Regina parishes—All Saints, St. James, St. Luke, St. Matthew and St. […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-march-2020/feed/ 0 162978 Around the dioceses, February 2020 https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-february-2020/ https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-february-2020/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:54:38 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162629 The signing of an agreement between James Settee College and the Vancouver School of Theology was a major topic at the latest meeting of the Indigenous Council for the Anglican diocese of Saskatchewan.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-february-2020/feed/ 0 162629 Around the dioceses, January 2020 https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-january-2020/ https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-january-2020/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:59:50 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=162297 Anglican and Lutheran leaders have signed a memorandum of agreement officially fusing congregations in Port Alberni, B.C., from each tradition into one faith community.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-january-2020/feed/ 0 162297 Around the dioceses, December 2019 https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-december-2019/ https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-december-2019/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:18:18 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=161790 Niagara church builds relationship with Islamic group A church in the diocese of Niagara is fostering interfaith dialogue with a local Islamic cultural centre. The relationship between All Saints Anglican Church in Erin, Ont., and the Erin Islamic Cultural Centre began when the Rev. Joan Dunn met with people from the newly-opened centre in the […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-december-2019/feed/ 2 161790 Around the dioceses, November 2019 https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-november-2019/ https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-november-2019/#respond Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:00:35 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=161518 A Vancouver-area parish is planning a property redevelopment project that will see its existing parish hall replaced by a 30-story skyscraper for affordable housing, market rental and ownership housing and the new parish hall and offices.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-november-2019/feed/ 0 161518 Around the dioceses, October 2019 https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-october-2019/ https://anglicanjournal.com/around-the-dioceses-october-2019/#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:34:02 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=161310 A new project in the diocese of Ottawa is set to provide between 70 and 200 affordable housing units in the Nepean area of the diocese.

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