February 1, 2001 New leadership

LondonCanon Glyn Jones, 65, has retired as secretary general of The Mission to Seafarers after 11 years in the position. Mission to Seafarers maintains service centres and chapels for sailors at about 300 ports. He was succeeded...

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February 1, 2001 Scribes' shrine set up

LondonCanon David Meara, of St. Bride's Church in London is creating an Internet shrine to journalists killed, maimed, or imprisoned throughout Europe. The church, known as the "journalists' cathedral," created an altar to...

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February 1, 2001 Salvation Army in legal limbo

MoscowThe Salvation Army in Moscow began the year in what the head of the Christian group's Russian operations, Kenneth Baillie, has called a "legal never-never land". "As of two days ago, we do not exist in Moscow," Mr....

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February 1, 2001 Fact-finding priest laments the plight of Palestinians

A CANADIAN Anglican priest has returned from a fact-finding visit to the Middle East with vivid memories of people covered in glass from broken car windows, of fields and olive groves bulldozed into the ground, and of water...

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February 1, 2001 Life after the sky has fallen in

Toronto REV. MICHAEL Boyd was sitting at his dining room table on a bright, sunny September day in 1998, thumbing through the Halifax Chronicle-Herald. He expected the day to be much like any other in the quiet, picturesque...

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February 1, 2001 'Ethnic Anglican' says he does not believe in belief

TorontoOne of Canada's most distinguished writers, Kildare Dobbs, has a significant connection to the Anglican church and explores spiritual themes in his work, yet is critical of the institutional church and of unquestioning...

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February 1, 2001 Chocolat

DIRECTOR Lasse Hallstrom has followed up last year's success of The Cider House Rules with an adaptation of Joanne Harris's novel Chocolat. With an all- star cast, headed by Juliette Binoche and Judi Dench, Hallstrom again proves...

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February 1, 2001 Books in Brief

Saint SaulA Skeleton Key to the Historical JesusDonald Harman Akenson346 pages, hardcover, $32.95McGill - Queen's University Press0773520 9025The author says that Paul's famous letters (epistles) with their six biographical...

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