The controversy in the diocese of New Westminster over whether to bless gay relationships took a grave turn last month as Archbishop David Crawley moved to discipline the diocesan bishop of the Yukon, Terrence Buckle, for...
Category: November 2003, Canada, Sexuality debate

WinnipegNative and non-native leaders of the Anglican Church of Canada at a two-day meeting in October aired grievances that stemmed from the residential schools settlement agreement, but agreed to work together to bring...
Category: November 2003, Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, Residential Schools, National Indigenous Bishop

Shulus, B.C.Nearly two years ago, the diocese of Cariboo in British Columbia suspended operations, financially wounded by lawsuits concerning a former Indian residential school. A landmark court decision had found the...
Category: November 2003, Canada, Residential Schools

Shulus, B.C.One theme of the first assembly of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) was "healing and reconciliation" - a theme running through much of the Canadian church's work. The theme was particularly...
Category: November 2003, Canada, Residential Schools
In an unusual open message about the same-sex blessing issue in New Westminster, the primate, Archbishop Michael Peers, and the four metropolitans, or senior bishops, of the Anglican Church of Canada, criticized Bishop...
Category: November 2003, Canada, Sexuality debate
The diocese of British Columbia elected Archdeacon James Cowan, executive officer of the diocese and deputy prolocutor of the General Synod, as its 12th bishop. While there were 16 candidates on the first ballot, Mr....
Category: November 2003, Canada
DallasA three-day meeting of conservative Anglicans in early October denounced the Episcopal Church of the United States' (ECUSA) approval of an openly gay bishop, called on the primates of the Anglican Communion to...
Category: November 2003, Canada, Sexuality debate, United States
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The predominantly Anglican native community of Nibinamik, also known as Summer Beaver, in northern Ontario was shaken Sept. 11 when seven members of the village and a pilot were killed in a plane crash.
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Category: November 2003, Canada

Oakville , Ont.The Community of the Sisters of the Church, an international Anglican women's order based in England , recently installed a repatriated Canadian as its sister provincial for the order in Canada .
Sr....
Category: November 2003, Canada