A proposal to exclude The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the U.S. from the rest of the Anglican Communion has been rejected by the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion in London. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of...
They are building it, and they hope the money to finish it will come. It is St. Judes Cathedral in Iqaluit.
The diocese of the Arctic has been trying to rebuild the distinctive igloo-shaped cathedral since the original structure, built in...
Anglican Journal readers will find the annual Anglican Journal Appeal inserted into this issue of the newspaper. Funds from the Appeal are shared 50-50 between the Journal and the 22 diocesan newspapers that it carries. Also see Appeal...
Canadas next governor general, David Johnston, is a respected academic and lawyer. He is also Anglican.
Currently the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, Johnston will succeed Governor General Michalle Jean when...
Vianney (Sam) Carriere has been appointed interim director of the department of philanthropy, the Anglican Church of Canada has announced. Carriere is currently director of communications and information resources for General Synod.
The...
The Anglican Church of Canada plans to mark the 25th anniversary of The Book of Alternative Services (BAS) with retrospective essays from people who helped create the book. Essays from others expressing what the book means to them will...
The United Nations refugee agency is calling for increased relief efforts in the province of Balochistan in Pakistan, where two million people have been affected by flooding.
By any definition it is a humanitarian tragedy in Balochistan,...
Jerusalem
Politicians need to focus on the human face of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not discard it in favour of their own political agendas, the head of the World Council of Churches has said in the Middle East.
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Geneva
The financial and economic crisis experienced by many societies could bring about a powerful change to "sustainable environmental development", says Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I of Constantinople.
Istanbul-based...
Amazing. In the name of Jesus Christ, a pastor of a small Christian church with 50 congregants threatens to do something deeply, gut-wrenchingly offensive to 1.2 billion Muslims. For weeks he promises to burn what 1.2 billion people...
Peace in the Middle East looked a little closer as 24 Jewish, Muslim and Christian kids from the Toronto area and Galilee region of Israel hugged, laughed and said tearful goodbyes. For 10 days they had participated in the Kids4Peace camp...
Paige fetched me from the hospital before the morning shift came on duty and charged me for spending the night. I had a fresh dressing on my hand, thanks to little Miss Pony-Tail, and a Styrofoam cupful of lethal coffee coating my stomach...
Bishop Nerva Cot Aguilera, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church of Cuba and in the Caribbean, died on July 10 after a brief battle with severe anemia, the Episcopal News Service (ENS) has reported. She was 71.
Bishop Cot...
This blog was written from Brisbane, Australia, where I just attended a United Nations conference for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on global health. It was meant to rally NGOs to press for a renewed effort by governments to...
The Associated Church Press, meeting at its annual convention May 6-8, 2010 in Arlington, Va., honored the best of the Christian press at the awards banquet May 8.
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