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Moosonee priests bring baptisms home

Joelle Kidd — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:05 +0000

The Rev. Ann Westgate, deacon of St. John the Evangelist Mistissini in the diocese of Moosonee, spent Nov. 15 to Dec. 1 travelling in the Cree Nation of Waskaganish, where she baptized 47 children, infants and teens.

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Anglican Foundation grant funds training for parenting program

Joelle Kidd — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:23:29 +0000

Freely received, freely given: Helping subscribers and donors understand how Anglican fundraising organizations distribute donations. A $10,000 grant from the Anglican Foundation of Canada is providing training for community parenting programs in the diocese of Moosonee. Mothers’ Union members Kathleen Snow (Canada) and Lena Edmondson (Guyana) co-led a training course January 21-24 in Sudbury, Ont., […]

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‘It’s like a rolling high tide that’s coming’: Indigenous communities prepare for COVID-19

Joelle Kidd — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:09:21 +0000

As Indigenous communities across Canada ramp up social distancing and isolation measures in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Anglican Indigenous leaders say people are turning to prayer and looking to the past. “Elders have memories, or can give oral recollections, of when pandemics decimated their populations not too long ago. So they have […]

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Former primate Hiltz to serve as assisting bishop of Moosonee

Matthew Puddister — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:55:39 +0000

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, former primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, will serve as assisting bishop for the diocese of Moosonee throughout 2020.

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Around the dioceses, December 2019

Anglican Journal Staff — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:18:18 +0000

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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Moosonee School of Ministry finishes its first year

Joelle Kidd — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:44:45 +0000

On a Saturday night in October, inside Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Cochrane, Ont., a gospel jamboree was in full swing.

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