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Activists highlight Canada’s role on 75th anniversary of atomic bombings

Matthew Puddister — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:28:51 +0000

Nuclear disarmament advocates, including a prominent Anglican voice, held an online event Aug. 6 to commemorate 75 years since the atomic bombings of Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to recognize Canada’s role in the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons. The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Coalition, which has hosted a commemoration each year in Toronto since […]

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Amidst rising global conflict, Anglicans work for peace on earth

Matthew Puddister — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 03:57:15 +0000

Through participation in Project Ploughshares and activism in their churches and communities, Canadian Anglicans are living out the call of the Marks of Mission “to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation.”

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Letters to the Editor, February 2018

Various — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:02:13 +0000

We won a Nobel Prize Anglicans share in the honour of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and accepted by Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow on December 10 for the historic adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Faith motivates Hiroshima survivor’s anti-nuke activism, Dec. […]

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