May 1, 2009 Joint synod with ELCIC considered for 2013

The Anglican Church of Canada’s management team met with National Bishop Susan Johnson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and her senior staff in March to discuss ways to deepen the full communion agreement between the two churches Their discussion included plans for a joint General Synod / National Convention to be held in Ottawa in 2013 and the possibility of sharing space for both national offices in the future.

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May 1, 2009 Suffragan bishop election deferred

Archbishop Terrence Buckle, bishop of the diocese of Yukon and Metropolitan (senior bishop) of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon, has acknowledged that the provincial synod’s decision to endorse a motion from its house of bishops postponing the election of a suffragan bishop to the metropolitan for the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) has “caused pain.”

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May 1, 2009 Picture Your Faith – Love

Do you have photographs depicting Love? Submit them to Picture Your Faith, a monthly feature on the  Anglican Journal’s Web site, www.anglicanjournal.comThe goal of Picture Your Faith is to tell stories of faith through...

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May 1, 2009 Diocese of Niagara awarded $20,000 in legal costs

Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) parishes have paid the Anglican diocese of Niagara $20,000, which it was awarded for legal costs by an Ontario Superior Court ruling.

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May 1, 2009 Former student gives settlement to homeless

A former student of the Elkhorn Indian Residential School, set up by an Anglican missionary in 1888, has donated $50,000 – $40,000 of which was his entire settlement from the revised residential schools agreement – to an inner city homeless shelter in Winnipeg.

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May 1, 2009 Church wants choice on proposed accounting rules

The General Synod office of the Anglican Church of Canada is leading what it hopes will be a co-ordinated response with dioceses and parishes across the country voicing opinions on proposed changes to the rules governing the way they report their financial information.

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May 1, 2009 Dean Terry Dance is new Huron suffragan bishop

Dean Terrance “Terry” A. Dance was elected the new suffragan (assistant) bishop of the London, Ont.-based Anglican diocese of Huron on March 28.

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May 1, 2009 Archbishop Clarke retires after 45 years of service

After 45 years of church ministry, 17 of them as bishop of the diocese of Athabasca, and nearly six years as Metropolitan (senior bishop) of the ecclesiastical province of Rupert’s Land, Archbishop John Clarke, 70, announced his retirement effective April 30.

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May 1, 2009 Anglican presence in Burundi makes a difference

“I WANT TO tell you how I lost my arms.” That is the opening line of a feature article on page 1, and the words are spoken by Francine Nijimbere, a 26-year-old mother living in Burundi. Her story is both alarming and tragic, almost incomprehensible to our Western sensibilities.

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May 1, 2009 Featured letter: Pastoral care at Olympics

Dear editor,IN RESPONSE to the excellent article, Anglican women unite at the UN to call for equality (March 25, anglicanjournal.ca), Archdeacon Ellen Clark-King stated: “In Vancouver, one of the things that is particularly on...

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