May 1, 2003 Iraqi anger

An Iraqi woman expresses her anger at the U.S. bombing of a residential area to Dave Havard, a deacon from the diocese of New Westminster. Mr. Havard travelled to Iraq in March to join a Christian Peacemakers team in...

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May 1, 2003 Women's activism alive at UN

The Commission on the Status of Women, part of the United Nations Social and Economic Council met in New York recently. The Anglican Consultative Council, as a non-governmental organization (NGO) accredited to the UN, had...

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May 1, 2003 First four women ordained

For the first time, the Church in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) has ordained women to the deaconate. On March 2, Bishop Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo, ordained four women, Malini Devananda, Gunavathany Selvan, Glory Jeyaraj and...

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May 1, 2003 Priest hopes work in Guyana continues

This July, when Rev. Philip Rowswell and his wife Adriana close the gate of their compound in Georgetown, Guyana, and return to Canada for perhaps the last time, it will be with the fervent wish that another Canadian priest will...

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May 1, 2003 Sri Lankan bishop tries to model peace

Bishop Kumara Llangasinghe, of the diocese of Kurunagala in Sri Lanka, is one of a newly emerging breed of Anglican bishop/statesmen: a religious leader, he also acts as intermediary between opposing factions in his country, and...

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May 1, 2003 More Scottish tunes

London The Church of Scotland is planning to cull more than a third of its hymn book, to make room for more Scottish words and music. "Previously, too many of our hymns have been borrowed," said Douglas Galbraith, a member of...

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May 1, 2003 Pentecostal centre

AmsterdamA unique centre has opened in the Netherlands to study Pentecostalism, one of the world's fastest growing Christian movements - and one which some members claim already accounts for more than one in four Christians...

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May 1, 2003 St. Ivan the Terrible

MoscowA campaign by an ultra-right-wing group to canonize Czar Ivan the Terrible and the so-called "mad monk," Gregory Rasputin, is threatening to split the Russian Orthodox Church. "Those demanding the canonization of Ivan...

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May 1, 2003 Unlock the doors

LondonInsurance figures in Britain show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, churches are safer when unlocked during the day. Speaking at a conference of the National Churches Tourism Group, secretary Rosemary Watts said...

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