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In Worship and Action is both a key phrase from the Mission Statement of the Anglican Church of Canada, and the title of the annual Narrative Budget produced for 2008 by the Communications and Financial Management departments of General Synod.
The Primate delivered this sermon on New Year’s Day at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa. It is a tradition for the Canadian Anglican Primate to preach in the nation’s capital on the first day of the year.
Designer babies, nanotechnology, and genetically modified crops were a few of the topics covered at a Dec. 2-5 consultation in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Global Consultation for Genetics, New Biotechnologies, and the Ministry of the Church gathered 45 church representatives, scientists, young people, indigenous people, disabled people, and theologians to talk about biotechnology, defined as the industrial use of microorganisms or biological substances.
The Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council has announced that its quarterly magazine, Anglican Episcopal World, will cease publication after 36 years.
Grace to you and peace in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
It gives us great pleasure to write to you together as the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and the National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada in order to send you our best wishes for a blessed Advent and a joyous celebration of Christmas.
General Synod Communications announces a new edition of a series of posters first produced five years ago, which depict graphically the structure of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had not endorsed an invitation by Southern Cone Primate Gregory Venables to offer oversight to dioceses outside that province, a spokesman for the Anglican Communion said December 10.
It began 100 years ago, in a remote hillside chapel 80 kms from New York City. Father Paul Wattson, an Episcopalian priest, gathered the men and women of his religious order together to pray for Christian unity.
www.anglican.ca is 10 years old this week.
While there is disagreement about exactly how many people years are the equivalent of a website year, most would probably agree that the General Synod website is now mature.
The Episcopal Church marked the 400th anniversary of permanent English settlement in the Americas with a “counter-celebration” in Jamestown, Va., Nov. 1 to 3. The New Jamestown Covenant Summit was an opportunity for Aboriginals to tell their side of the story, that English settlement has been a complicated and often destructive presence for their peoples. National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald was there to represent the Anglican Church of Canada.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) strongly encourages individuals, parishes, and dioceses to make the most of World AIDS Day 2007 by engaging in some form of worship, event, or advocacy focused on HIV and AIDS.
November 29, 2007 Greetings in the name of the One who was, who is, and who is to come—our Lord Jesus Christ The Mission Statement of the Anglican Church of Canada opens with these statements: “As a partner in the worldwide Anglican Communion and in the universal Church, we proclaim and celebrate the gospel of … Continued
At its recent meeting, the Council of General Synod approved the following initial response to the draft Anglican Communion Covenant and asked that it be forwarded to the Communion offices.
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.
From Nov. 22 to 25, the Joint Anglican-Lutheran Commission met in Toronto to review the Full Communion relationship between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.