March 1, 2008 Holocaust memorial

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, marked Holocaust Day 2008 (Jan. 27) by attending a national ceremony in Liverpool which this year is a European Capital of Culture. The...

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March 1, 2008 Big shoes to fill

Clowns and the congregation listen to the sermon during the annual Grimaldi Service Feb. 3 at Holy Trinity Church in London. The event brings together professional clowns from Britain and Europe in a service of remembrance to the...

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March 1, 2008 Primate cites progress in week of unity

The leader of the Canadian Anglican church delivered a homily at a Roman Catholic basilica in Toronto, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), for the first time participated with a pope in a service in...

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March 1, 2008 Bishop urges end to Kenya crisis

An Anglican bishop who chairs the National Council of Churches in Kenya said parliamentary discussion offers a chance to end the political crisis following the bloody unrest after elections at the end of 2007.

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March 1, 2008 Communion releases second draft covenant

Addressing concerns raised by several provinces, including Canada, about granting more authority to primates and other Instruments of Unity in the Anglican Communion, an international group has released a second draft of the...

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March 1, 2008 Anglican World magazine moves to online format

Publication of a paper version of Anglican/Episcopal World magazine, published quarterly by the Anglican Communion office in London, has been suspended in favour of an e-mail distribution model, said Canon Kenneth Kearon,...

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March 1, 2008 Having a message need not spoil the medium

“Hail, thou ever-blessed morn! Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!” (From a hymn by Edward Caswall, 1858)The release in recent months of a spate of faith-based films poses a quandary for filmgoers. It is simply this: Can a...

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