Apologies from the diocese of New Westminster and the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) for the "deep offence" their decisions regarding sexuality have caused to "many faithful Anglicans," and a moratorium on same-sex...
Category: November 2004, Sexuality debate, Anglican Communion
Mississauga, Ont. The Anglican church's rainmakers -- financial consultants across the country who advise potential donors on various methods of giving -- met near Toronto in September to plan strategy for the national church's...
Category: November 2004, Canada

Canadian church leaders -- including the Anglican primate -- have agreed to meet again after an initial meeting Sept. 29 with federal Immigration Minister Judy Sgro in Ottawa to discuss concerns about Canada's methods for...
Category: November 2004, Canada
There is still time to donate to the Anglican Journal Appeal, says Larry Gee, business manager, who says that donations are down almost 10 per cent from this time last year. "At the same time last year we had received 12,000...
Category: November 2004, Canada
Archbishop Robin Eames said his Lambeth Commission's report would "have teeth," but conservative Anglicans blasted it for not being tough enough on churches with liberal attitudes toward homosexuality and liberal Anglicans...
Category: November 2004, Sexuality debate
The adoption of a common Anglican Covenant "which would make explicit and forceful the loyalty and bonds of affection which govern the relationships between the churches of the Communion." A Council of Advice for the...
Category: November 2004, Sexuality debate, Anglican Communion
Sanja Pecelj, the Kosovo woman who sought sanctuary in the basement of St. Mark's church in Halifax for more than a year, is now living with her sister in Mexico, where she will wait for the Canadian government to process her...
Category: November 2004, Canada
Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that he is not alarmed about the decision by Essentials to form a network and federation which would provide alternative episcopal oversight to...
Category: November 2004, Canada, Sexuality debate

Rev. Laverne Jacobs tells of a First Nations community where divisions that followed the arrival of a Pentecostal church eventually began to ease. Members of "historic" churches began to attend the occasional revival meeting at...
Category: November 2004, Canada

The Anglican Church of Canada and other churches in Canada that are dealing with the painful legacy of the residential schools agreement have much to share with the rest of the ecumenical world about healing and reconciliation,...
Category: November 2004, Canada, World Council of Churches