May 1, 2008 Migrant workers forge alliance to protect rights

Representatives of migrant workers’ groups around the world, some of them church partners, are scheduled to gather in Hong Kong from June 14-17 for the founding assembly of the International Migrants Alliance, which aims to...

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May 1, 2008 Welsh clergy block approval of women bishops

Welsh Anglican clergy narrowly voted on April 2 against a measure to allow women to be appointed to the episcopate. The measure was supported unanimously by their bishops.At a meeting of the Church in Wales synod, the bill to...

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May 1, 2008 Game turns wordplay into food

Know what “palliation” means? How about “ternary,” “opprobrious” or “pelerine?” Playing an Internet game designed to test vocabulary is leading to huge donations of rice for the world’s hungry, according to the United Nations’...

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May 1, 2008 Satiric Ship of Fools Web site celebrates 10th anniversary

A Web site that is possibly the most irreverent in the Anglican world, Ship of Fools, celebrated its 10th  anniversary on, appropriately, April 1 or April Fools’ Day.Founded in 1998 by two theological students who did not,...

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May 1, 2008 Philanthropist Ted Turner softens stance on religion to help raise $200 million to battle malaria in Africa

Ted Turner, who once called Christianity “a religion for losers” has launched a joint initiative with Lutherans and Methodists in the United States to raise $200 million US ($202 million Cdn) to fight malaria in Africa.

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May 1, 2008 Churches decry bishop’s murder

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of the northern Iraq city of Mosul, who was kidnapped in February by armed attackers, was found dead on March 13, church officials in Baghdad announced.

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May 1, 2008 Religion and science are not at odds, says winner of Templeton Prize

Rev. Michael (Michal) Heller, a Polish Roman Catholic priest and cosmologist whose intellectual and religious life has been grounded in the insights of both science and religion, has won the 2008 Templeton Prize.

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May 1, 2008 Author draws on artistic approach to prayer

Mathematics teacher and prayer-workshop leader Sybil MacBeth knows about math-anxiety. “It’s like a panic attack in the face of pages full of numbers and equations,” she writes, describing the “allergy to math” response she...

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May 1, 2008 Little Mosque’s role model for Muslims has Anglican roots

As Rayyan Hamoudi on the Canadian television series Little Mosque on the Prairie, actor Sitara Hewitt plays the devout Muslim daughter of a Muslim father and a mother who converted to Islam from Anglicanism. In real life, Ms....

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