A Sept. 11 litany from the National Council of Churches in the U.S.
We light a candle in remembrance for all those who suffered and died on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
Interested in keeping up-to-date on news and information from the Anglican Church of Canada? Sign up for our email alerts and get our stories delivered right to your inbox.
We light a candle in remembrance for all those who suffered and died on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
While eight dissident parishes in New Westminster continue to court and receive national and world media attention in their campaign for another bishop, some Anglicans who also consider themselves conservative and orthodox are waging a separate, quiet campaign for the established structures of the church.
If any of the 1,500 people who turned up at a worship and rally for conservative Anglicans protesting the liberalization of their church expected any irregular episcopal consecration or offers of episcopal oversight, they went away disappointed.
In a 10-day meeting in Geneva, the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) addressed a wide range of international issues but also embraced some changes that could reshape the whole ecumenical movement.
As representatives and participants from the United States, British and Canadian churches meeting at the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, we have heard and share the concern of those of other nations about the apparent drift towards military confrontation in Iraq.
From the National Council of Churches News Service Thirty-seven Christian leaders from three Western nations, gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for a meeting of the World Council of Churches Central Committee, have issued an urgent call to the American government to pull back from its unilateral movement toward pre-emptive military action against Iraq, and to seek … Continued
Former Keewatin Bishop Gordon Beardy has a new title to add to his signature: chief. He was elected to the position by his small First Nation community last month.
Watching John Rye at work in Africa was an experience like nothing else.
If Rev. Laverne Jacobs’ career were a poem, it would most certainly follow an ABAB meter: for at least the second time in his career, he is repeating himself.
The normally public dealings of a group of Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings in New Westminster have moved behind closed doors on the say-so of a Texas priest.
The guest list is firmly under wraps, but later this month Anglicans opposed to same-sex blessings in the diocese of New Westminster are preparing to welcome like-minded bishops and primates from across the Anglican Communion.
He served parishes in several Ontario towns, including Elliot Lake, North Bay and Parry Sound. He was elected coadjutor bishop in Algoma in 1983 and served as diocesan bishop until his retirement in 1994.
Those hoping for a final word — pro or con — on the Anglican view of homosexual behavior from the three-year-long International Anglican Conversations on Human Sexuality are going to have to wait. The final report, issued this month, indicates strengthened relationships between the participants, but no consensus on the morality of homosexuality.
It’s a simple sign with a simple message, handwritten on plain white paper and cardboard, but it speaks to thousands.
Downing Street today announced that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Monmouth, is to succeed George Carey as 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.