Canada's Anglican bishops have appealed to the Prime Minister to intervene in stalled negotiations aimed at compensating people who were harmed in Indian Residential Schools.
The joint efforts of Church groups, including the Anglican Church of Canada, which swiftly responded to the earthquake disaster in El Salvador and Gujarat earlier in the year, are to center their attention on rebuilding the two areas and to help form emergency response groups.
Changing Attitude (CA), a national Anglican organisation working for the full acceptance of lesbians, gays and bisexual, has received a grant to the tuning of almost £120,000- thanks to the community Fund of the National Lottery Charities Board.
Addressing a crowd of homeless people and activists in Toronto, Canada, Archbishop Terence Finlay called upon all three levels of government to develop a national housing policy to counteract the crises of homelessness.
The leaders of nine Canadian churches have called for a peace settlement in the Middle East that would guarantee "peaceful existence within secure borders" for both Israelis and Palestinians.
"Stewardship: Living Our Covenant With God" is the fifth International Leadership Development Conference sponsored by The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS) for lay leaders, clergy and diocesan staff.
In a vigil sponsored by Faith Partners of Ottawa, Canada, Anglican Bishop Peter Coffin and other Ottawa religious leaders have challenged the provincial government to match their donations after they pledged to donate their Ontario tax rebate to the poor.
Archbishop Finlay, as he will now be known, will remain the diocesan bishop of Toronto, carrying the title of Metropolitan of Ontario and Archbishop of Toronto. The ecclesiastical Province of Ontario includes the dioceses of Algoma, Huron, Moosonee, Niagara, Ontario, Ottawa and Toronto.
Anglicans who are involved in the ecumenical movement feel great sadness and loss at the news of the death of Fr Tillard on Monday 13 November.
Port Alberni in British Columbia, Canada, is ahead of the times. The Anglican parish of St Alban's and Christ the King Lutheran church joined in shared ministry a year ahead of the official entering into full communion between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCC).
As followers of our Creator-God who calls us to justice and to love, we, the members of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, stand in solidarity with the Mi'kmaq people of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church as they continue their struggle for the recognition of their treaty rights and their dignity as a People
The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples has condemned "the violence, threats of violence, and intimidation tactics used by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans" in the Burnt Church lobster fishery dispute, in a statement released here today.
The parish of St Mary Magdalene, Fort Nelson, is in the north-eastern corner of British Columbia on the Alaska Highway. The local population is about 6,500 in an area that includes forestry and natural gas production.
The Diocese of Cariboo is likely to approve plans to wind itself up during its October 2000 Synod. The diocese has been hit hard by the claims against it from previous residential school students who suffered abuse. The diocese was found liable jointly with national church in Canada for an undisclosed award to a former student at a school in Lytton, British Columbia more than thirty years ago
The fourth Conference of Anglican Provincial Secretaries meeting 24-31 August 2000, in Toronto, Canada faced crucial questions of unity and diversity throughout the Anglican Communion.
The Anglican Church will cut more than half a million dollars in grants to support ministry in Canada's north and overseas, and eliminate eight full time positions at its national office. At the same time, grants available from the church's Healing and Reconciliation Fund, supporting work with Indigenous peoples, will double.
In 1874 Whitfield was a thriving Canadian village that was enjoying prosperity from the lumbering trade and its strategic position on a busy transport route. But just a quarter of a century later, changes in farming and industry, and a general movement of population to cities had seen a big change of in the fortunes of the village. The final nail in the coffin came with the rail line that bypassed Whitfield.
Christ Church Cathedral in British Columbia is building a seven circuit labyrinth to mark the new millennium. Labyrinths have been part of the Christian tradition since about the fourth century, an are designed to aid meditation and contemplation.
A Canadian MP has raised the issue of the serious financial situation faced by churches in Canada concerning lawsuits over the treatment of children in residential schools. "Surely it is important to make sure that the churches involved do not go bankrupt or are so severely damaged that much of their social services and social action work will have to be eliminated just to survive," said New Democratic Party member, Bill Blaikie, in a statement to the Canadian House of Commons.
Two thousand people filled St Paul's Bloor Street in Toronto for the fifth annual service to celebrate the diocese's black heritage. The Revd Cecil Fletcher, who is minister of Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Toronto, preached at the service - the first non-Anglican to do so - and Bishop Michael Bedford-Jones was the chief celebrant.
I write to share something of this moment in the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. In this troubling time we are faced with litigation so costly as to change radically our structures and our life as a national church. But the time is also profoundly hopeful; God leads us ever deeper into the path of healing and new life.
The Pope, His Holiness John Paul II sent a message of greeting to the historic May 2000 gathering of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops in Mississauga, Toronto, Canada.
This meeting of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from 13 countries, convened by His Eminence Edward Cardinal Cassidy and His Grace Archbishop George Carey, gathered at Mississauga, near Toronto, Canada, from 14-20 May 2000.
Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops came away from an international meeting at Mississauga, Ontario, more resolved to do all in their power to build upon the considerable agreement in faith they already share.
Together with Cardinal Cassidy and our colleagues at our ecumenical forum, I want to say how pleased we are to be here this evening and to share in this act of worship. As you will be aware, for the first time, Anglican and Roman Catholic Leaders from around the world are meeting together.
Roman Catholic and Anglican bishops, paired from thirteen regions around the world, have begun their meeting in Canada in which they are reviewing and evaluating the accomplishment of thirty years of ecumenical relationship between Anglicans and Catholics in their areas.
Des évêques des Églises anglicane et catholique romaine venant de 13 pays se réuniront au Canada, du 14 au 20 mai prochain, pour examiner et évaluer les réalisations des 30 dernières années au plan œcuménique dans différentes parties du globe.
Roman Catholic and Anglican bishops from thirteen regions around the world are to gather in Canada May 14-20 to review and evaluate the accomplishment of thirty years of ecumenical dialogue between the two traditions and to reflect on how the special relationship between them has been developing in different parts of the world.
The national executive of the Anglican Church of Canada met early in May 2000 in an attempt to balance plans for the future of the church against the possibility of bankruptcy for General Synod, the church's national body.
Obispos católico-romanos y anglicanos de trece países del mundo se reunirán en Canadá del 14 al 20 de mayo próximo para repasar y evaluar los logros de treinta años de diálogo ecuménico entre las dos tradiciones y reflexionar más ampliamente sobre cómo esta especial relación se ha estado desarrollando en diferentes partes del mundo.
