PWRDF is pleased to announce a new joint program with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). PWRDF will contribute $2.7 million dollars over five years towards the $10.8 million dollar project that will focus on maternal and child health in 59 villages in Burundi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
Anglicans from the Diocese of Toronto who participated in the Anglican Communion’s one-year indaba process believe it can have a transforming effect upon the church if it is used more broadly.
The Canadian house of bishops will discuss next month how best to respond to renewed proposals for a moratoria on the blessing of same-sex unions, the ordination of openly gay persons to the episcopate, and cross-border interventions.
Rev. Canon Dr John Saint Helier Gibaut, from the Anglican Church of Canada, will head the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order as of January 2008.
Canada’s Anglican bishops, at their regular fall meeting, decided to leave in place a set of pastoral guidelines concerning church services for gay couples that stops short of blessings or marriage. They also expressed serious concern about Canadian participation in activities widening the schism in the Anglican Communion
After a nail-biting election that took nearly three hours, a majority of the delegates of the General Synod elected Bishop Fred Hiltz of the diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as the 13th Primate or national Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. Bishop Hiltz, 53, was elected on June 22 on the fifth ballot, garnering 60 out of 116 votes (51.7 per cent) from clergy, and 81 out of 137 votes from laity (59 per cent). Bishop Victoria Matthews of the diocese of Edmonton came in a close second, with 56 votes from clergy, and 56 from the laity
The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada has narrowly defeated a resolution that would have allowed dioceses to decide for themselves whether or not to bless same-sex unions. Lay delegates voted 78 to 59 in favour of the motion and clergy voted 63 to 53 in favour But the House of Bishops voted 21-19 against it. As a result the motion was defeated, since it required approval by each of the three orders to pass
The theme for this 38th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada is 'Draw the Circle Wide.' It is from a song by Bishop Gordon Light, and is consistent with the intention of the Lord of the Church to draw all people to himself. Since Christ was lifted up from the earth the circle of his love has grown ever wider through the centuries, now encompassing every continent and island on the planet.
A groundbreaking service for St. Jude's Cathedral in Iqaluit has been scheduled for June 3, Trinity Sunday, to mark the rebuilding of the igloo-shaped church, which was damaged by arson in November 2005 and demolished in June 2006. Paul Okalik, the premier of Nunavut, has been invited to turn the sod at the service
The Primate's Theological Commission, a group appointed by the Anglican Primate to consult on theological matters, has released a clarification concerning resolutions on the blessing of same-sex unions approved earlier this month by the church's governing council.
The resolutions, approved by the Council of General Synod for the consideration of the church's General Synod this summer, have been described as dealing with The St. Michael Report. But in fact only one of them does, the commission says in its statement.
Many of the people who have fled the Israeli bombing of Lebanon have found refuge in public schools in Beirut and other cities. The Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), a member of ACT International (Action by Churches Together) is doing its best to help some of them, bringing in much-needed food parcels
Canada's Anglican bishops unanimously endorsed a motion expressing 'grave concern' about proposed legislation in Nigeria that 'would prohibit or severely restrict the freedom of speech, association, expression and assembly of gay and lesbian persons'
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has announced that he will retire next year following General Synod and the election of a successor. Archbishop Hutchison, who was elected Primate at the last General Synod in St. Catharines, Ont., in 2004, made the announcement at a meeting of the Canadian House of Bishops
Bishop Paterson addressed the Council of General Synod during a two-day visit as the council gathered in Mississauga, Ont, Nov 17-20 as well as hearing presentations to CoGS by Canadians who attended the Anglican Consultative Council's meeting in Nottingham this summer
The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) is embarking on an educational project that will see the establishment of an Anglican university in the country. The institution to be known as St. John's University is set tentatively to start operating in September 2006 and will be located in Dodoma, capital city of Tanzania
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.
The Third Afro-Anglicanism Conference ended July 26 with a rousing worship service relating to the conference's theme 'Celebrating the Gifts of Afro-Anglicanism.' The eight-day meeting, held in Toronto, got off to an inspiring start, when Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town, South Africa urged black Anglicans to share and live out the Southern African concept of ubuntu (I am, because we are) with the wider Anglican Communion.
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada, meeting collegially in Windsor, Ontario, April 25-27, 2005, send warm greetings to the Church. We met together in an atmosphere of prayer, which was hallmarked by charity and generosity of spirit.
This morning I received a copy of the report of the Lambeth Commission on Communion (Eames Commission). The Commission was created by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and chaired by Archbishop Robin Eames of Armagh, the senior Metropolitan in the Anglican Communion
The Anglican Church of Canada has deferred a decision on the blessing of same-sex unions for another three years to allow a review by the Primate's Theological Commission
Deeply divided over liberalizing church attitudes toward homosexuals, Canadian Anglicans meeting at their triennial governing convention here voted to defer a decision on whether gay relationships should be blessed in church
Canadian Anglicans have elected their 12th Primate. On the fourth ballot, more than 300 members of General Synod, the church's chief governing and legislative body, elected the Most Revd Andrew Hutchison, the Archbishop of Montreal
Archbishop Michael Peers' 18-year primacy of the Anglican Church of Canada officially ended with his retirement last weekend. As of Sunday 1 February, the church is under an acting primate until Archbishop Peers' successor is elected at General Synod on May 31. Candidates for this election will be nominated by members of the House of Bishops when it meets in Regina in April.
Archbishop Michael Peers has called on various religious traditions in Canada to rise above their differences and renew their public role in society saying their contributions are "particularly crucial" as more and more Canadians are "losing confidence in the common good". In a speech before the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto, his last public address before retiring as primate on 1 February, Archbishop Peers also spoke out against "diehard secularism" citing the recent "dangerous decision" made by the French government to ban the use in public of Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps, and Christian crosses of any size, and the absence of religious references during the Sept 11, 2001, memorial service on Parliament Hill.
Parishes in the former British Columbia diocese of Cariboo, Canada, will once again have a bishop. Now called the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI), representatives from the parishes on January 10 nominated Canon Gordon Light to the position of bishop suffragan to the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of British Columbia and the Yukon, currently Archbishop David Crawley.
Some of the callers and writers were viciously, personally abusive, others were supportive, others disappointed and still others were confused. That was the range of reaction reported by Bishop Ralph Spence and Dean Peter Wall of the diocese of Niagara after Dean Wall married a lesbian couple last August at Christ's Church Cathedral in Hamilton, Ontario.
The Diocese of Toronto has embarked on a year-long process to discuss the issue of same-gender blessings. The diocese’s Synod, its governing body, approved the process at a meeting in Toronto on November 21.
The diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island has elected a well-known priest and social justice advocate as its suffragan, or assistant, bishop. Susan Moxley is the diocese's first female bishop and only the third woman ever to be elected to Canada's house of 42 active bishops.
The Diocese of Toronto, Canada, is celebrating an important milestone in the life of the Anglican Communion as it holds its 150th regular session of Synod from 20-22 November 2003 in Toronto.
