December 1, 2005 Church left 'unusable' after fire

Igloo-shaped St. Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut territory, was extensively damaged by fire on the night of Nov. 5. “There is a lot of heat, smoke and fire damage inside. The structure is still standing. From...

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December 1, 2005 Do you see what I see?

Artist Laura Smith reinterprets the Nativity story in her work entitled “...and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes.” She comments that Jesus is with us now, in the lives of the poor, the marginalized: “Holding up the unnamed homeless as martyrs (perhaps saints, and therefore, icons) to our failure as a society and as individual Christians is a reminder to me to look for, and respond to, Christ in all faces.”

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December 1, 2005 Last chance to give to Journal Appeal

This is the last month to donate to the 2005 Anglican Journal Appeal. If you have already donated, the newspaper thanks you. Your donation benefits both the Journal and your diocesan newspaper.  As well as donating by...

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December 1, 2005 Ex-vice regal 'at home' in communion

There were times in Adrienne Clarkson’s life as governor general that people whom she did not know and who were dying would request that she visit them. “I would always go,” recalled Ms. Clarkson, one crisp day in early...

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December 1, 2005 Court rules churches still liable for abuse

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that churches are liable for abuse suffered by Indian children in a now-defunct residential school system, but that liability should be shared with the federal government. In a ruling...

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December 1, 2005 End poverty

Bishop Colin Johnson, bishop of Toronto, receives his Make Poverty History wristband from Heather Harding on Oct. 17, as part of the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the Make Poverty History campaign.

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December 1, 2005 Settlement fund still on target

The Anglican Church of Canada’s Indian residential schools settlement fund, with a goal of $25 million, remains on target, having collected $16.8 million as of the third quarter of 2005, according to General Synod’s financial...

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December 1, 2005 Qu'Appelle elects dean of Edmonton

Dean Gregory Kerr-Wilson, 43, rector of All Saints’ Cathedral in Edmonton and dean of the diocese of Edmonton, was elected bishop of the Regina-based diocese of Qu’Appelle on Nov. 12. An electoral synod held at St. Paul’s...

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December 1, 2005 Buckle elected metropolitan of B.C. and the Yukon

Electors in the ecclesiastical (church) province of British Columbia and the Yukon, meeting on Nov. 4 in Richmond, B.C., chose Bishop Terrence Buckle of the diocese of the Yukon as metropolitan, or provincial archbishop. Three...

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December 1, 2005 Shared service

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison (right), the Anglican primate, presided at his first Lutheran eucharist at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Kitchener, Ont., on Oct. 30, Reformation Sunday. Lutheran Eastern Synod Bishop Michael Pryse...

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