April 1, 2007 Taizé gathering

The Taizé community in France is organizing a gathering of young adults in Montreal, April 27-29. Participants include the Anglican diocese of Montreal, the Roman Catholic diocese of Montreal and the Montreal-Ottawa Conference of...

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April 1, 2007 Support for Journal

The diocese of New Westminster’s diocesan council in late January approved a motion urging the Anglican Church of Canada’s national office in Toronto to continue 10-times-per year publication of the Anglican Journal. The...

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April 1, 2007 Celebrating fibre arts

The Sorrento Centre, located about 75 km east of Kamloops, in southern British Columbia, has published its 2007 program of courses, starting on April 15 with Fibre Arts Weeks for knitters and quilters, continuing through a summer...

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April 1, 2007 Black heritage service

St. Paul’s (Bloor Street) church in the diocese of Toronto celebrated its 12th annual Black Heritage Service on Feb. 25 during Black History Month. The theme of the service, which honoured the 50th anniversary of Ghana’s...

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April 1, 2007 Primates push U.S. on sexuality

Primates of the Anglican Communion have given the U.S. Episcopal Church until Sept. 30 to “make an unequivocal common covenant” that its bishops will bar same-sex blessings in their churches and that it would not consecrate another gay bishop “unless some new consensus on this matter emerges” across the Anglican world.

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April 1, 2007 From bishop to chief enforcer and chaplain

Bishop Ralph Spence of the Hamilton, Ont.-based diocese of Niagara will be heading across the Atlantic for a new adventure after he retires on Feb. 29, 2008. He will move to London for several months at the invitation of the Archbish-op of Canterbury to help organize the Lambeth Conference, the decennial meeting of the world’s Anglican bishops, scheduled to take place July 16-Aug. 4, 2008.

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April 1, 2007 Women priests ‘not a church-dividing issue’

An international Anglican-Orthodox commission on theological dialogue has wrapped up 18 years of work with a statement that, in part, has some application to the current controversies about homosexuality, said John Gibaut, a professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa and a member of the commission.

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April 1, 2007 Filipino activists seek solidarity

A five-member delegation of Filipino church leaders and human rights advocates traveled to Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa in March to appeal for solidarity amid what they reported to be a continuing rise in political killings in the Philippines.

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April 1, 2007 ‘Green’ bishop committed to moratorium on air travel

For most of the 150 delegates who traveled to Germany for a gathering of church leaders in historic Wittenberg, the trip was a matter of a few hours, thanks to one of the many low-cost airlines that now ply Europe’s skies.

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April 1, 2007 Primates worship at former slave market

Primates of the Anglican Communion gathered on Feb. 18 for a eucharist at a cathedral built atop a former slave market in Zanzibar, with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams praying for “forgiveness for the past, mercy for the present, and humility for the future.”

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