Today’s announcement of a comprehensive agreement on native residential schools issues is good news for the Anglican Church and good news for Canada’s indigenous people, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada says.
The Anglican Church of Canada “remains an important part of the Anglican Communion,” Bishop John Paterson, of Auckland, N.Z., the chair of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), told members of the Council of General Synod (CoGs).
The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) is embarking on an educational project that will see the establishment of an Anglican university in the country.
Preparations are underway for the second joint National Worship Conference organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) and the Anglican Church in Canada (ACC).
After three-years of development, the Anglican Book Centre (ABC) has launched a new website, ABC On-line.
The new site provides an active e-commerce service and gives customers a secure on-line ordering tool that is user friendly. Customers can track the status of their orders on-line.
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has approved a joint project proposal issued by the Primate’s World Relief Development Fund (PWRDF) and other Canadian churches to aid Pakistan-India earthquake survivors.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has told Anglican Church leaders from the global South that the only ground for unity in the church ‘is to be found in Christ’. Speaking at the South to South Encounter meeting at Ain al Sukhna, some 80 miles south of Cairo, Dr Williams said that the church had to be focussed on Christ:
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and Bishop Michael Pryse, of the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada will lead a joint worship service at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Kitchener, Ont. on Oct. 30.
Popularly known for his leading role in Mozambique’s peace talks, Anglican bishop Dinis Sengulane of the Mozambican diocese of Lebombo is now leading a fight against Mozambique’s number one killer disease, malaria.
An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hit parts of the south Asian subcontinent on Saturday morning, October 8. The quake was centered in the mountains of Pakistani Kashmir, near the Indian border, about 95 km (60 miles) northeast of Islamabad. Early reports indicate that more than 18,000 people are estimated to have died.
Celebrating and giving thanks for a bountiful harvest is one of the world’s oldest holiday customs. People throughout the world set aside certain times of the year to give thanks.
The entire lay leadership of St. George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad, Iraq, is missing and presumed to have been killed after being attacked on a dangerous road west of Baghdad while returning from a conference in Jordan.
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 30, during the meeting of General Synod, Canadian Anglicans voted to change the name of their church from the “Church of England in Canada,” to “The Anglican Church of Canada.”
Anglican Video’s documentary on Gladys Cook will be broadcast this fall on Vision TV through the Spirit Connection program, an award-winning television program produced by the United Church of Canada.
Since May when the federal government appointed retired Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to work on Indian residential schools issues, intensive negotiations have been underway involving representatives of government, plaintiffs’ counsel, the Assembly of First Nations and the churches.