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General Synod passes motion to sign, endorse Christian-Muslim dialogue

Joelle Kidd — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:45:40 +0000

General Synod voted July 15 to sign on to “A Common Word Between Us and You” and endorse it as a model for Christian-Muslim dialogue. The letter extends “an invitation to look at two foundational principles present within both of our respective scriptures: the call to love God above all things, and the call that follows from that, to love our neighbours. Love of God and love of neighbour is the starting ground.”

“A Common Word” is a letter written in 2007 at the initiative of 138 Muslim scholars, clerics and political figures, according to the Rev. Scott Sharman, animator for ecumenical and interfaith relations, who gave a presentation to General Synod before the motion.

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Anglican Communion’s ecumenical expert chosen as new president of Thorneloe University

Anglican Communion News Service — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:25:20 +0000

Canon Dr. John Gibaut, currently director of Unity, Faith and Order at the Anglican Communion Office, is to leave his current role to become president, provost and vice-chancellor of Canada’s Thorneloe University. Gibaut will take up his new role on June 1, after the next meeting of the Trienniel Anglican Consultative Council in Hong Kong. […]

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Celebrating community in Canada’s North

Wayne Holst — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:00:24 +0000

Almost 50 years ago, as a Lutheran synod staff person, I worked with representatives of Anglican, Presbyterian and United churches to create a viable model for church-planting across northern Canada. What started as the Leaf Rapids Ecumenical Parish in Manitoba has now been adapted to other isolated mining, mill-town and petroleum industry-support locations across the […]

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Church leaders unite behind vision for ‘one people, one nation, and one South Sudan’

Anglican Communion News Service — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:02:09 +0000

Church leaders in South Sudan, including the Archbishop Justin Badi Arama, primate of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, have issued a joint statement calling on political leaders in the war-torn country to pursue peace. After a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, the heads of members of the South Sudan Council of Churches issued a joint […]

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New municipal tax measures ‘threaten churches’ ministry in Jerusalem,’ leaders say

Anglican Communion News Service — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:49:21 +0000

Education and health ministries provided by the Diocese of Jerusalem could be at risk if the Jerusalem Municipality goes ahead with plans to make churches pay Arnona, or municipal taxes.

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