August 16, 2006 Priest uses his HIV-positive status to fight stigma of disease

Canon Gideon Byamugisha, an Anglican priest whose remarks closed the ecumenical conference and brought about 500 people to their feet, is a living symbol of his cause: he talks openly about his HIV-positive status to fight the shame and discrimination felt by many with HIV and AIDS.

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August 14, 2006 Women are the new face of AIDS, say conference speakers

The 16th International AIDS Conference opened in Toronto this weekend with calls for immediate, universal and equitable access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and research for women and girls worldwide.Speakers at the...

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August 3, 2006 Burmese suffer from country's dependence on drug trade

Network working with addicts seeks Canadian support

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July 28, 2006 Primate’s Fund sends aid for Lebanese civilians

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), the relief and development arm of the Anglican Church of Canada, has sent $25,000 in response to an appeal made by a global alliance of churches sending relief to civilians...

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July 26, 2006 International conference to discuss HIV-AIDS advocacy for aboriginal communities

When the HIV-AIDS epidemic struck in Canada 24 years ago, Art Zoccole watched helplessly as aboriginal friends and colleagues in Toronto became ill from the mysterious disease that ravaged their immune systems and rendered them...

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July 23, 2006 Church leaders call for ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other Canadian leaders to remember Canada’s “proud history of peaceful intervention” and seek ways to help end the...

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July 17, 2006 Archdeacon David Woeller, former general secretary, dies at 80

Note: This is an amended version of a July 17 story. Archdeacon David John Woeller, who served as a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada for more than 50 years, six of them as general secretary of General Synod, died July 12...

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July 11, 2006 Lutherans ponder next step as synod votes for same-sex blessings

Note: This is an amended version of a July 11 story. Delegates of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada’s (ELCIC) Eastern Synod voted July 6 to allow individual congregations to decide whether same-sex unions may be blessed...

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July 6, 2006 Arctic seeks $3 million to rebuild beloved 'igloo church'

St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral, the “igloo church” that was a landmark in Iqaluit until it was destroyed by arson last December, has been demolished and the diocese of the Arctic is now appealing for help to finance its rebuilding, estimated at $3 million. The cathedral, which was deconsecrated last Easter and demolished June 1, was declared unsalvageable after a vandal set it on fire last November.

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July 3, 2006 Anglican Journal puts on a new face with Web site

The Anglican Journal has revealed its new, improved online look. The Web site of the Journal, the 131-year-old national newspaper of the Anglican Church of Canada, has undergone its first redesign since the site’s inception in 1998.

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