March 1, 2006 Mission projects

Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR), the delivery arm for development programming and overseas relief for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), has partnered with Augsburg Fortress Canada, the church's...

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April 1, 2005 Lutherans put blessings issue to a vote this summer

The National Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has voted to present to its National Convention a resolution that will allow local congregations to decide if they want to authorize the blessing of...

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April 1, 2005 Anglicans, Lutherans compare notes

Representatives of Anglican and Lutheran churches in the United States and in Canada met Feb. 5-7 in Las Vegas to compare notes on how new, closer relationships between the denominations were working in each country. "One of the...

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January 1, 2005 Talk of missile defence raises bishop’s ire

Vancouver Calls by United States President George W. Bush for Canada to join in a U.S.-led system intended to shoot down missiles from so-called "rogue" nations, has drawn fire from church leaders in Canada. In a foreign policy...

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March 1, 2004 Lutherans struggling with sex, too

The National Church Council (NCC) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), just like the Anglican Church of Canada, is now in the thick of a church-wide process of "engagement" with the issue of same-sex blessings. ...

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February 1, 2004 Canada’s reputation damaged

Ottawa Canada 's reputation of welcoming strangers is in serious trouble following the federal government's treatment of certain delegates to the Lutheran World Federation convention held last July in Winnipeg, Archbishop...

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September 1, 2003 Lutheran assembly highlights ecumenism

WinnipegIn a true show of ecumenism, the 10th Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation worshipped in non-Lutheran churches for the first time in its 56-year history. The gathering opened and closed with eucharists in Roman...

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September 1, 2003 Assembly a ‘dream’ for primate

Winnipeg"I never dreamed it would be like this," said Archbishop Michael Peers, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada as he reminisced before 1,000 Lutherans at the 10th Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation. He was...

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June 1, 2003 Lutherans, Anglicans closer still

Ask leaders and members of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) how their new, closer relationship is working and you get answers that sound like family: warm ? comfortable ? a...

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June 1, 2003 'Catholic' fridge symbolizes unity in combined parish

Winnipeg I can't begin to count the number of times over the past year that I have had to explain what it means to be the Church of St. Stephen and St. Bede in Winnipeg: an Anglican and Lutheran worshipping community.I've made...

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