St. James’s Cathedral will become the first Anglican church in Canada to provide a live web cast of its Easter Sunday service on April 16th, starting at 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time.
The service will be shown on www.toronto.anglican.ca.
Ask & Imagine, a national leadership program for youth and young adults, will soon be in its 8th year.
Participants in the 10-day programs have come from 19 dioceses and applications his year indicate that that number will probably rise to 22, or more than 2/3 of the dioceses in Canada.
The St. Michael Report, containing the opinion of the Primate’s Theological Commission as to ‘whether the blessing of committed same-sex unions is a matter of doctrine’, is now available in French. (HTML, PDF)
The long-anticipated demolition of 600 Jarvis Street began yesterday and is expected to take a couple of weeks. For many years until a move 18 months ago to 80 Hayden Street, a stone’s throw away, 600 Jarvis Street was the home of General Synod Staff.
The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples and General Synod Communications have released a short booklet explaining the background to the appointment of a National Indigenous Bishop, which is expected by this summer.
To get a feel of what it is like to be among 3,000 people at the World Council of Churches’ 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil (Feb 14- 23), assembly participants from the Anglican Church of Canada are sharing experiences, stories and reflections on issues, events, places of interest and the different people they meet on ‘Porto Alegre Diaries’.
Dean Peter Elliott, Prolocutor of General Synod, is pleased to announce the appointment of The Very Reverend Michael W. Hawkins, Dean of Saskatchewan and Rector of St. Alban’s Cathedral, Prince Albert, and Mr. Arran Thorpe of Dartmouth, a theological student of the Diocese of Nova Scotia & P.E.I., as members of the national Financial Management and Development Committee, effective immediately.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is pleased to announce the completion of a successful search for a Communications Coordinator. Diana Mavunduse will fill this important position in PWRDF starting March 6, 2006.
The president of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), Sheila Ritson-Bennett has announced the appointment of Adele Finney to the position of acting executive director of PWRDF starting March 7, 2006.
General Synod’s departments of Financial Management and Information Resources announce the publication of Step by Step, a narrative budget for 2006.
The Anglican Church of Canada’s Volunteers in Mission (VIM) program has launched a new, revamped website.
A survey to improve the usefulness of General Synod’s website has been posted online and a paper copy will shortly go out with the Winter Ministry Mailer.
As the 6th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) proceeds in Hong Kong, (Dec.13-18,) the Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, KAIROS, joined the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) and other bodies in lobbying national governments and WTO delegates.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has officially announced the Lambeth Conference dates in an Advent Letter to the 38 primates around the world. Archbishop Williams, at whose invitation the bishops come to the conference, outlined his hopes for this global meeting of Anglican bishops. He spoke of the conference as an opportunity for “individual Christian pastors to meet Jesus afresh, for our church to be renewed in mission, for the world to hear good news.”
The Council of General Synod, meeting in Mississauga, Ont., has unanimously passed the following motion: “That this Council of General Synod … call the church to prayer on behalf of all those involved in the negotiations between the Hon. Frank Iacobucci, legal counsel for former students, the Assembly of First Nations and legal counsel for other involved church entities, that these negotiations will result in a fair and lasting resolution of the legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada.”