PWRDF Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/pwrdf/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:04:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg PWRDF Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/pwrdf/ 32 32 170042892 State of Emergency: PWRDF funds relief for Ontario and Manitoba Indigenous communities https://anglicanjournal.com/state-of-emergency-pwrdf-funds-relief-for-ontario-and-manitoba-indigenous-communities/ https://anglicanjournal.com/state-of-emergency-pwrdf-funds-relief-for-ontario-and-manitoba-indigenous-communities/#respond Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:51:09 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170303 The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is distributing $80,000 to 14 Indigenous communities stricken by COVID-19’s Omicron variant in northern Manitoba and Ontario. The aid will go toward providing masks, hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies and food for communities where supplies are scarce and medical care is hours away by car or plane. PWRDF […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/state-of-emergency-pwrdf-funds-relief-for-ontario-and-manitoba-indigenous-communities/feed/ 0 170563 B.C. floods prompt Anglican vigil, support https://anglicanjournal.com/b-c-floods-prompt-anglican-vigil-support/ https://anglicanjournal.com/b-c-floods-prompt-anglican-vigil-support/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:26 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170091 As November floods brought death and devastation to parts of southern British Columbia, Canadian Anglican offered prayers and help to residents.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/b-c-floods-prompt-anglican-vigil-support/feed/ 0 170091 Anglicans worldwide call for equal access to COVID-19 vaccinations https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-worldwide-call-for-equal-access-to-covid-19-vaccinations/ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-worldwide-call-for-equal-access-to-covid-19-vaccinations/#respond Sun, 28 Nov 2021 14:00:36 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169312 Two Anglican Communion groups are adding their voices to demands that the world’s wealthy nations share their COVID-19 vaccines.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/anglicans-worldwide-call-for-equal-access-to-covid-19-vaccinations/feed/ 0 169312 Anglican eyewitnesses escape Lytton ‘inferno’ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-eyewitnesses-escape-lytton-inferno/ https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-eyewitnesses-escape-lytton-inferno/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:00:56 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169118 The plumes of smoke over Lytton, B.C. were an “apocalyptic” sight for Melanie Delva. But what the Anglican Church of Canada’s reconciliation animator remembers most from June 30—the day her home and all her possessions were destroyed by the fire, the day Lytton burned to the ground—are the sounds.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/anglican-eyewitnesses-escape-lytton-inferno/feed/ 0 169118 Let there be light—in childbirth https://anglicanjournal.com/let-there-be-light-in-childbirth/ https://anglicanjournal.com/let-there-be-light-in-childbirth/#respond Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:00:47 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167517 Welcoming a baby into the world involves making a seemingly endless number of decisions, all of which become increasingly urgent and important when childbirth arrives.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/let-there-be-light-in-childbirth/feed/ 0 167517 April issue shares stories of resurrection, hope for the future https://anglicanjournal.com/april-issue-shares-stories-of-resurrection-hope-for-the-future/ https://anglicanjournal.com/april-issue-shares-stories-of-resurrection-hope-for-the-future/#respond Thu, 01 Apr 2021 04:00:49 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=167525 April 2021 marks the second Easter celebrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, after a year of widespread lockdowns, social distancing and online church services. This month’s issue of the Anglican Journal features stories that speak to both the pain of the ongoing pandemic and the hope and joy of the resurrection. Life goes on, even during […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/april-issue-shares-stories-of-resurrection-hope-for-the-future/feed/ 0 167525 COVID-19 and global hunger: a Zimbabwe case study https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19-and-global-hunger-a-zimbabwe-case-study/ https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19-and-global-hunger-a-zimbabwe-case-study/#respond Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:43:07 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166888 The reports in November and December 2020 were dire. For the people of Matabeleland in Zimbabwe, the “lean” season had begun. The peak lean season—the three months after Christmas, the really difficult season before harvest—was soon to arrive. The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has been supporting rural livelihoods, women and men working […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/covid-19-and-global-hunger-a-zimbabwe-case-study/feed/ 0 166888 PWRDF helps displaced Iraqi families come home https://anglicanjournal.com/pwrdf-helps-displaced-iraqi-families-come-home/ https://anglicanjournal.com/pwrdf-helps-displaced-iraqi-families-come-home/#respond Tue, 05 Jan 2021 06:00:01 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166509 Members of 1,500 displaced families in northern Iraq were more safely able to return to their homes this year as the result of a project funded partly by the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF).

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/pwrdf-helps-displaced-iraqi-families-come-home/feed/ 0 166509 Giving the hope of Incarnation (and goats)—even in isolation https://anglicanjournal.com/giving-the-hope-of-incarnation-and-goats-even-in-isolation/ https://anglicanjournal.com/giving-the-hope-of-incarnation-and-goats-even-in-isolation/#respond Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:14:56 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166328 Welcoming the Christ child from a safe distance doesn’t mean that we can’t celebrate the Incarnation in tangible ways, writes Canon David Harrison. It is surely not without irony that as we approach the fleshliest and most intimate of our Christian holy days, we are being enjoined to keep distance from one another. Just as […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/giving-the-hope-of-incarnation-and-goats-even-in-isolation/feed/ 0 166328 Church mourns former General Synod prolocutor, Anglican Award of Merit recipient https://anglicanjournal.com/church-mourns-former-general-synod-prolocutor-anglican-award-of-merit-recipient/ https://anglicanjournal.com/church-mourns-former-general-synod-prolocutor-anglican-award-of-merit-recipient/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2020 20:32:11 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166120 Dorothy Davies-Flindall, a former General Synod prolocutor, recipient of the Anglican Award of Merit and Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) chair who contributed to the life of the national church for more than 20 years, has died at the age of 86. Davies-Flindall served as prolocutor of General Synod from 2001 to 2004. […]

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