February 19, 2007 Anglican primates visit former slave market in Zanzibar

Primates of the Anglican Communion gathered Sunday, Feb. 18, for a eucharist at a cathedral built above 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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February 16, 2007 7 conservative primates refuse to take communion with fellow leaders

Seven Anglican leaders who call themselves “Global South Primates” have boycotted a eucharist with their fellow primates calling it a “deliberate action” to show the “brokenness” of the Anglican Communion and their provinces’ “broken or severely impaired” relationship with the U.S. Episcopal Church.

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February 16, 2007 Episcopal church response to Windsor was ‘adequate,’ says monitoring group

The U.S. Episcopal Church’s response to the Windsor Report’s call for a moratorium on the consecration of gay bishops has been “adequate,” primates of the Anglican Communion meeting in Tanzania have been told by a sub-group, whose members include Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

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February 15, 2007 Augsburg Fortress in talks to take over Anglican Book Centre

Lutheran church bookseller Augsburg Fortress Canada is negotiating to take over the operations of the Anglican Book Centre, a move that would allow the Anglican retailer’s storefront operation in Toronto to remain open. The Anglican Church of Canada’s communications and information resources committee on Feb. 9 unanimously endorsed the talks, which began late last year. Last October, an Anglican committee reviewing the church’s work and budget recomme

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February 15, 2007 Primates' meeting begins with all at the table

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has lamented that while he and other primates currently meeting in Tanzania have seen stark images of poverty in the capital Dar Es Salaam their discussions will not focus on improving the lives of the poor but on divisions over human sexuality. “I am going to a meeting with a gospel of hope and a preferential option for the poor and we are debating who is in and whom we are going to keep out,” said Archbishop Hutchison in a blog, or Internet diary entry, to young Canadian Anglicans at www.generation.anglican.ca

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February 14, 2007 'You see the world in a different light'

Banff, Alta. “This has been the most difficult piece of work that God has called me to do.” The church volunteer was speaking to a room full of sympathetic colleagues, all representatives of the Anglican Church of Canada at the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) hearings on Indian residential schools.

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February 7, 2007 Journal Appeal comes close to 2006 target

The Anglican Journal’s annual fundraising appeal collected $556,065 in 2006, just a hair shy of its goal of $560,000.

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February 2, 2007 Churches take grapes from vine to chalice

When you buy a bottle of wine for the table, you probably care about its origin. You might want California chardonnay, Australian shiraz or riesling from Ontario or British Columbia. But when you kneel at the altar rail and sip communion wine, do you know where it comes from?

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January 29, 2007 Bishop Ford championed ecumenism

Bishop Douglas Albert Ford, who stressed ecumenism as diocesan bishop of Saskatoon, died Jan. 23 at the age of 89. When he was consecrated bishop in 1970, “it was the aftermath of Vatican II and (Archbishop of Canterbury) Michael Ramsey’s visit to Pope Paul VI,” recalled Archbishop Michael Peers, former primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, in an interview.

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January 26, 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury to meet with Canadian bishops

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will make his first visit to Canada as Archbishop of Canterbury with a visit to the April meeting of the Canadian house of bishops in Niagara Falls, Ont.

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