Covenant and care–a baptismal promise to safeguard creation
“Will you strive to safeguard the integrity of God’s creation, and respect, sustain and renew the life of the Earth?”
“I will, with God’s help.”
“Will you strive to safeguard the integrity of God’s creation, and respect, sustain and renew the life of the Earth?”
“I will, with God’s help.”
Having a capable, trained midwife can be the difference between life and death for Indigenous mothers in Mexico. Before the Casa de la Mujer Indigena (CAMI) opened in 2006 in Chalchihuitán in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, 50 women were dying in childbirth each year in this community of fewer than 15,000 people.
As of January this year, that number has dropped to zero.
The Compendium of the Church Mice—General Synod’s free, year-long Sunday school curriculum—has all new content for the 2013-14 season.
A statement from the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Fred Hiltz
For Richard and Nancy Bruyere, it’s a full life.
Nancy was recently named suicide prevention coordinator for Western Canada and the Arctic by the national church’s Indigenous Ministries department, and Richard works full time as an engineer for Manitoba’s East Side Road Authority, building all-weather roads on the east side of Lake Winnipeg.
The following is a statement from Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Archbishop Michael Peers’ apology to the survivors of residential schools.
The Rev. Emmanuel Gatera loves his country and wants to see it healed. Emmanuel is from Rwanda.
Grace Mee Bya and her husband Andrew S’Zaw Lwin first came to Canada from Myanmar in 1997. They did so with the help of the Anglican Church of Canada’s International Bursary and Scholarship program—a program funded by the generous giving of Anglicans across the country.
Being a diocesan youth worker in the Anglican Church of Canada can be an isolating experience.
“It’s probably one of the lonelier jobs in the Canadian church just because you haven’t got any close colleagues who are doing the same kind of thing that you’re doing anywhere near you,” says Judy Steers, General Synod coordinator for youth initiatives.
The following is a congratulatory note in celebration of the Royal Birth from the Primate.
In the Rev. Laurette Glasgow’s world things may always be changing, but the basic realities tend to stay the same. As special advisor for government relations for the Anglican Church of Canada since March 2012, Glasgow has seen her position evolve as both she and the church learned what it was to have an ‘ambassador’ to the federal government.
With South Africans and millions of others around the world we rejoice that Nelson Mandela has lived to see his 95th birthday.
The news of Federal Government tests on the effects of malnutrition on aboriginal children throughout Northern Manitoba in the 1940s is appalling. To have used the schools as labs and the children as the subjects of experiment is so inhumane. It is another tragic chapter in the long once-hidden story of the Indian Residential Schools.
The following is a message from Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, to the people of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.
Comme d’innombrables autres Canadiens, j’ai suivi les nouvelles du déraillement d’un train, des explosions et des horribles incendies qui ont suivi. Votre communauté ressemble à une zone sinistrée, ravagée et dévastée. Mes pensées sont avec vous.