The Community Ministries of the Diocese of Ottawa, Canada, has refused to take part in schemes where those in receipt of government benefit are forced to work. The so-called "workfare" programme has been criticised for being unethical.
I am very greatly honoured in being- asked to give the keynote ad-dress for this major international symposium: "Justice, Memory, and Reconciliation." Zachariah proclaimed on behalf of God about the restored Jerusalem: "Jerusalem shall be inhabited like villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and animals in it. For I will be a wall of fire all around it, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within it."
The Bishop of the Arctic, the Rt Revd Christopher Williams, has hit the headlines for his attempt to recruit clergy in England. Trying to find clergy willing to serve in Canada's far North has provoked at least as much interest among the media as it has from potential candidates.
More than 95% of the population in the vast Anglican Diocese of Quebec is French-speaking, and yet for over 200 years there hasn't been a francophone Anglican parish in this part of Canada. The conventional wisdom was that French speakers were Roman Catholics, and attempts to evangelise among the French-speaking population were discouraged.
I write as a member of the Primates' Standing Committee which, together with the Archbishop of Canterbury, has spent time over the past months planning the March meeting of Primates. Because of the recent action in Singapore, there will be greater need at that meeting to deepen the understanding of Primates about episcopal ministry.
The Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, has put her faith at the centre of the new coat of arms designed for her. The arms were created and presented in a record 29 days, and include two red crosses from the arms of the Anglican Church of Canada.
(ENI) Anglicans and Lutherans in Canada are deepening their links and may be in full communion by the year 2001.
(Anglican Church of Canada) The Anglican bishops of Alberta have sent the following letter to the provincial Premier:
The yellow stucco church stood on a corner. A tall man strode out from under a tree. He hailed us. We stopped the car and I noticed the ragged T-shirt hanging on his thin frame.
Following the devastating ice storms hitting Canada the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada issued the following letter to the Canadian bishops.
The Canadian federal Government has taken a useful first step in apologising to indigenous peoples for the harm they suffered at residential schools, but it must remain open to other remedies that may be required or sought, according to Archdeacon Jim Boyles, General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Niche diplomacy - concentrating our available resources and influence on areas where we can actually make a difference is what Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy has been practising in the Ottawa Process around landmines. Two stories that lay together on a PWRDF desk give some clues as to a Canadian Anglican niche in the world-wide efforts to address landmine issues. Both are from Maputo, Mozambique.
Canada's Anglican bishops, meeting this week approved the following statement which updates their 1979 guidelines dealing with the ordination of homosexual persons and pastoral relationship with the homosexual community.
Controversy over Church run native residential schools could erupt again as the Anglican Church of Canada defends itself against two lawsuits by former students.
Canadian Anglican bishop, Michael Ingham, whose theological studies and travels have taken him to India, China, Israel, Great Britain, Europe, and the United States has written a startling new book to show how Christians and people of other faiths can work toward mutual understanding and acceptance, and advance the cause of world peace.
Anglican Bishops in the Province of British Columbia have sent the following letter to the province's premier, the Hon. Glen Clark:
The Anglican Church's national office hosted an historic meeting of Canadian religious leaders with the Hon. Allan Rock, Minister of Justice, to discuss the issue of Nazi war criminals in Canada.
The Anglican Journal was voted the best national or international newspaper at the recent Associated Church Press awards in Chicago, Illinois. The Associated Church Press is a North American organisation of 178 publications with a combined circulation of 30 million.
Two-thirds of Canadian Anglican bishops surveyed recently favour some change to their 1979 guidelines on the ordination of homosexual persons, but they have continued to uphold the guidelines "in principle".
(Anglican Church of Canada statement). Background: The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada met April 14 to 18 in Mississauga. Since 1991, the House has been committed to reviewing the basis of its 1979 guidelines on the ordination of homosexual persons.
All 30 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada have met or exceeded amounts they had agreed to pay in 1996 to help finance national ministry and mission. Seven dioceses actually paid more to the apportionment, or program, part of the budget than they had originally committed themselves to. Additional payments were made by the dioceses of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Huron, Niagara, Ontario, Toronto and Edmonton.
Canadian Anglicans are being encouraged to boycott all US holiday destinations and visit Caribbean venues instead, as a protest against US policy on Cuba.
Canada's first aboriginal person to become a diocesan bishop is the Right Reverend Gordon Beardy. Bishop Beardy, 46 is a former Oji-Cree chief who has been suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Keewatin since September, 1993. His election as the diocesan, or senior bishop, will be seen as significant by the Church, especially by native Anglicans who make up a majority of the diocese.
In an open letter read at all services on 29 September, Bishop Terence Finlay, Bishop of Toronto, asked Churches to set up a "Community Tax Redirection Fund" to help those affected by the provincial government cutbacks.
A Canadian judge has ruled that an Anglican priest cannot sue for wrongful dismissal. Justice Hector Soubliere of the Ontario Court ruled on an unusual civil suit filed by Arthur Brewer against the Anglican Church of Canada's Ottawa diocese and Bishop John Baycroft.
The Anglican Church of Canada's national council has approved a motion asking Church members to join in a fast in solidarity with people affected the Canadian Health Service Transfer (CHST). The date of the fast is 1 April, Holy Week Monday, and the day of implementation of the CHST. The decision to commend the fast to Canadian Anglicans was made in March by the Council of General Synod, the Church's governing body in between meetings of General Synod.
Eagles are fairly rare in central Oklahoma. So, on a cold afternoon in late January when three eagles were sighted circling low over the rolling grounds of St Crispin's Conference Center, 50 Native Americans duly took note. Episcopal Native peoples from 17 United States and three Canadian dioceses gathered for Winter Talk VIII with the stated purpose of "healing our hurts and building the foundation for the 21st millennium
Michael Clarke, a youth worker at Trinity, Streetsville, has been named to the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest awards. Mr Clarke is being honoured for his work with troubled youth in Toronto and Mississauga. The award recognises outstanding achievement and service to Canada and to humanity.
