This website will have a new manager later this month, and development will proceed. Leanne Larmondin, staff writer with the Anglican Journal since 1993, will begin the position of web…
The Canadian federal government has taken a useful first step in apologizing to indigenous peoples for the harm they suffered at residential schools, but it must remain open to other…
TORONTO (Dec. 12, 1997) — The Anglican Church welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling recognizing the rights of native peoples to the ownership of ancestral lands that have not…
TORONTO, November 14, 1996 — Next week, after four years of work, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples will release its final report to the government and the people of…
TORONTO, July 18, 1995 — The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada is urging Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and British Columbia Premier Michael Harcourt to break the impasse in…
OTTAWA (June 6) — The 300-member General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada responded enthusiastically to a report commending further work on the process of healing and reconciliation for…
OTTAWA (June 1995) — The 300-member General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada has accepted and confirmed a covenant which encourages indigenous peoples to create a self-determining community within…
Twenty-five years after the last residential school for Native Canadians closed, their legacy remains among the most serious barriers to a just relationship with Aboriginal Canadians, an Anglican Church brief…
This acknowledgement is crafted in light of the Principles of Reconciliation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, as we seek to live faithfully in Christ and in right relationship with all.
We give thanks to the Creator for this land, its waters, forests and all living beings, and for the abiding presence of Christ among us. From coast to coast to coast, these have been cared for and nurtured by First Nations, Inuit and Métis through countless generations.
We honour the enduring relationship Indigenous Peoples have cultivated with these lands and waters, and the treaties and agreements that reflect these sacred bonds. We acknowledge the harms caused by colonial expansion, through frameworks like the Doctrine of Discovery and structures like the residential school system. We recognize our past failures as a Church, including disruption of connections to the land and suppression of Indigenous spiritualities.
Guided by the gospel of Jesus Christ, we confess our need for healing. We commit ourselves to seeking truth, pursuing reconciliation and nurturing harmony with all creation. We place our trust in Christ, through whom all things are reconciled to God.
May God strengthen us to live faithfully as stewards of the Earth. Let us walk in love, justice and reconciliation, joining in God’s work to restore all creation.