March 22, 2007 Primate’s office receiving nominations for new national leader

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate (national bishop) of the Anglican Church of Canada, is receiving letters nominating candidates to be his successor, under a new process that gives bishops more time to consider the prospect of leading the Canadian church.

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March 1, 2007 General Synod Web site invites comments

The church has launched a Web site that informs visitors about the issues that are expected at the upcoming meeting of General Synod in June. In Plenary (www.anglican.ca/gs2007/about/ip.htm) is an interactive online feature where...

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March 1, 2007 Two churches will unite for ‘day-long eucharist’

It might be said that the seeds of Full Communion between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) were planted when two friends, an Anglican priest and a Lutheran pastor from Winnipeg,...

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March 1, 2007 Native issues reflect a church with ‘a long journey ahead’

Delegates can expect greater visibility from aboriginal Anglicans at the upcoming General Synod in Winnipeg this June, with events that include a welcome to the first national indigenous bishop, the hosting of an aboriginal...

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February 23, 2007 Archbishop Hutchison ‘discouraged’ by primates’ communiqué

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that he had been “profoundly discouraged” by the communiqué issued by Anglican leaders warning the U.S. church of consequences if it did not abandon its liberal stance on sexuality, and had found it “tempting” not to sign it.

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February 22, 2007 Canadian Anglicans weigh in on primates' warning to U.S. church

The Canadian church was hardly mentioned in the communiqué that ended the Feb 15-19 meeting of Anglican primates in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but the church’s General Synod, will wrestle with questions of sexuality in June and that fact was much on the minds of Canadian observers.

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February 20, 2007 Archbishop Hutchison says church must look 'seriously' at primates’ request

The Anglican primates’ directive for the U.S. church to unequivocally bar same-sex blessings and gay bishops is something that the Canadian church “will have to look at seriously,” according to Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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February 1, 2007 Old tunes, new words

Organizers of a hymn-writing contest have settled on the tunes; now they are looking for new words. The Joint Anglican-Lutheran Commission, which monitors and carries forward the work of the Full Communion agreement between the...

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February 1, 2007 Canadians support charities in record numbers, says Statscan

More than 5.8 million Canadians who file taxes contributed a record $7.9 billion to various charities in 2005, according to Statistics Canada.

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February 1, 2007 Synod to consider Framework and Nets

Delegates to the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod 2007 in Winnipeg will get progress reports on two linked initiatives – the six-year national strategic plan called The Framework and a financial-development program called Letting Down The Nets.

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