The incorporated Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund has named an advocate for refugees as first president of its board of directors. Janet Dench, head of the Canadian Council for Refugees, is a former member of the primate’s fund committee, when PWRDF was still a department of Anglican Church of Canada. She is now faced with the challenge of heading the board of directors of a not-for-profit corporation.
While most attention at General Synod 2001 was focused on healing and reconciliation between native and non-native Anglicans, a set of documents important to another part of the church was quietly approved. These documents, the culmination of many years of work, are a set of liturgies for use in French language settings.
Before I say the dismissal, I would like to say to the Primate, not as a bishop of the Anglican Church, but as an Anishnawbe who went to a residential school: from my heart, I would like to say that I forgive you and I want to forgive your church which has become my church. … Continued
Warm New Years greetings. I write from Florida where I have had a pleasant Christmas with my parents (both going strong at 82), my sister and nieces. I?ll be here another week before going on to Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Sydney and Brisbane, with side trips to Fredericton, Boston and, perhaps, elsewhere. I?ll arrive back in Auki on February 10th.
Although I write this letter in Auki, if all works out, you will receive it from Vanuatu. I am planning to go to Vanuatu for two weeks tomorrow…
When I left the Solomon Islands more than two weeks ago, rumours were rife that the government was going to bring in Cuban troops to restore order to this troubled island. It was, in anything, a measure of desperation. On the other hand, two different sets of peace accords had just been signed, laying out a process to quell the ethnic-based disquiet that has claimed more than 60 lives in the past 18 months.